Aye aye folks, the end of the year usually signifies a plethora of best of lists, and it’s always great to make any of them tbh!
However…massive thanks to Michael Park of The International Americana Music Show for selecting my 2014 song ‘The Never Ending Pageant’ as part of their best of the last decade!
Brilliant honour and truly appreciated!! Always felt that tune was a little under appreciated!!
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From Michael:
For the first time, and ahead of next week’s Best Of 2023 edition of the program, this week, Michael Park has put together a “Best of the Best” edition, filling the playlist with a selection of songs that he chose to fill previous Best Of editions – from when the show started, back in 2014, right up to last year.
The playlist in full: Colin Clyne (Scotland) – The Never Ending Pageant (The Never Ending Pageant) Hatful of Rain (England) – Train In The Distance (The Morning Key) Lauren Housley (England) – Sweet Surrender (Sweet Surrender) Hip Hatchet aka Philippe Bronchtein (Canada) – Coward’s Luck (Hold You Like A Harness) Liz Stringer (Australia) – If You Mean It (All The Bridges) Antje Duvekot (Germany) – Caffeinated Warriors (Toward The Thunder) James Edwyn and the Borrowed Band (Scotland) – Try Not To Think Of Now (High Fences) Gretta Ziller (Queen of Boomtown) – Queen Of Boomtown) Benjamin Folke Thomas (Sweden) – Stuff Of Dreams (Modern Man) Maurice van Hoek (Holland) – Traveling Man (Traveling Man) Pete Gow (Scotland) – Both Sides Are Down (Leo) Jenny Mitchell (New Zealand) – Tomorrow (Tug Of War) Tami Neilson (Canada) – Beyond The Stars (Kingmaker)
My friends over at Emerald Sunday (Dundee based rock band) are releasing a new single called ‘Saltwater’ on the 29th of September. It’ll be on all digital platforms. I’m honoured to make a guest appearance on the harmonica.
It’s a lovely acoustic song that was written by Wesley Watts. Wesley was a good friend of Alan in the band and sadly he passed away earlier this year before he got a chance to record any of his songs. It’s a lovely tribute to him, please go and check out the band and the song when its released!
I’m delighted to be making my way back to Glasgow to open for American hit songwriter Jesse Terry at the Rum Shack on thursday the 5th of October. It promises to be a great night.
Fresh from my recent trip to The Belladrum festival where I had a lovely weekend and a successful gig on the Free Range Acoustic Stage, I’m back on duty for The Broken Creels again during August.
First up, we head to The Twa Tams in Perth on the 12th August, we kick off at 7pm.
On the 25th of August we support Scottish Americana stalwarts The Wynntown Marshalls at Aberdeen venue The Blue Lamp, it promises to be a great evening.
The Broken Creels will be supporting Aberdeen’s legendary guitarist Gerry Jablonski and his Electric Band on Saturday night (Saturday 3rd June 2023) at Aberdeen’s Cafe Drummond’s. The band have had a run of shows there now and are starting to slowly build some momentum and interest in what we are all about.
Hope to see you there, tickets can be bought below..
It was a funny one as it consisted of songs from two separate sessions.
Three of the songs came from a session in 2008 that was going to be an album called ‘Torn Between Two Everyrhings’, overall we did 8 or 9 full band songs and decided to keep ‘Good for something’, ‘Into my Garden’ and ‘Peace in my mind’.
However, i put them on the back burner to go out and play live as much as i could as I wasn’t vocally ready or good enough to sing those songs at that point.
The other session was held in Signature sound studios (San Diego) sometime in January 2010. Myself, James Hood & Enrique Platas went in with Alan Sanderson to record 10 songs, completely live and acoustic, just like we had been playing the pubs and clubs of Southern California at the time!
The album was mixed in two sessions, one at The Way studio in London (August 2009) and the other at Hyde Street studios in San Francisco (February 2010) It was mastered at Universal studios some time in March or April 2010 and released 10th May 2010.
It was such a great learning curve and wonderful experience…thanks to all that were involved in it!
I’m delighted to announce my one and only solo show for the year in my hometown of Aberdeen Scotland at historic venue The Blue Lamp on the 10th of November 2023. The ‘Lampie’ truly is one of my favorite venues in Scotland and it’s always a wonderfully intimate and special night there.
“…A bold arrangement of pounding drums, dynamic guitars and Clyne’s rich vocals, ‘Friend or Foe’ sweeps you up in a sonic swirl twirling you about with kaleidoscopic lights floating about you…and you love every second!…”
I’m looking forward to performing at this years Tartan Heart Festival. I’ll be performing on The Free Range Acoustic Stage on the 29th of July at 3:45pm, you can’t beat a lovely mid afternoon gig under a boat….yes, the stage is an upturned boat, which after many years of being at Bella I’ve never noticed…..Where The Ships Go To Die anyone?
Belladrum truly is both mine and my family’s favourite Festival!
