‘Writings on the Wall’ is the debut album from LANES, my solo project, self-released 1st March 2018. You can check it out and buy it on my bandcamp page. The album features me playing lots of instruments along with various great musicians: Mairi Campbell, Lizabett Russo, Jemima Thewes, George Francis, […] Read more »
Kelburn Rinse Out!
The Landing, the new Spaceship area this year at Kelburn Garden Party, featuring the Chapel Perilous Tetrasonic Art System, and the AV extravaganzas of Adventures In Light was epic! What a weekend…thank you Kelburn. To open the stage on Friday I tried out my latest instrumental dub offering in the […] Read more »
Jemima Thewes launches EP & website!
On the 20th Feb 2015 Jemima Thewes launched her debut EP “Bright Shadows“. WAHHOOO! We had the great pleasure of celebrating this with a beautiful gig at one of Douglas & Jane-Anne’s house concerts in Edinburgh. Here’s a wee bit of very rare special ultra-exclusive video footage of said gig! […] Read more »
Stables Story of mixing in the Sink!…
An ode to IR reverbs and other things pulling together an album: “I write this sitting in the sink” (Dodie Smith) A few seasons back, Edinburgh based trio “Sink” recorded the first half of their album at Stables Studio. On Violin, Soprano Sax and Accordion they laid down their through-composed […] Read more »
1st gig with Bella Hardy – BBC Radio 2 live session!
Just joined the very brilliant Bella Hardy for a couple of rehearsals, then straight onto BBC Radio 2 down in Manchester to do a live session for Mark Radcliffe! Rock n roll!! You can listen again here Im particularly relieved no one told me before the session that either Mark […] Read more »
Forgotten Works @ Stables
At the end of November I had the privilege of recording the unique, wonderful and very lovely Forgotten Works here at Stables. Fortunately Martin’s very tall Double Bass just fitted up here in the studio and all went to plan with a rather splendid array of winter wooly jumpers and […] Read more »
Mima Thewes UK mini-tour
Three great gigs mark the start of touring for Mima Thewes. First off was supporting Baka Beyond in Cumbria, at the newly up and running UpFront Puppet Theatre. Last time we saw this place it was just a metal frame, so great to be part of kickstarting this very special […] Read more »