So, i'm now going with a song called 'Tripping Alone' for the single release. My indecisiveness! I sometimes can't decide on which socks to wear in the morning or whether to even go with socks at all!! Anyway, there is no turning back so it's making it's appearance on the 30th Nov accompanied with the B-Sides 'Death to the Sea(the Dawn)' and 'Seabird'. The video for 'the kid who hid' is nearly done and is looking great so that will go up online closer to the album release.
I'm also working away at the moment on a 'New Voices' Commission for Celtic Connections in Jan 2010. It's a piece called 'Ceol Mor/Little Music' which is a collection of new songs i'm writing based around Piobaireachd, the classical music of the pipes. I've just finished writing a song for the tune 'Mackintosh's Lament' which was written in 1526, it's exciting trying to throw new colours at these amazing melodies. Hopefully i can do them justice. It's always a fine balance of holding on to what is there but to also try and push it into edgier ground. It's great sitting thinking about the person who actually wrote that melody, you forget sometimes that they were real people who had the same types of feelings that we have. I wonder if he struggled with what type of socks to wear in the morning?!
