Hello from the Isle of Eigg. My battery is low, what do I tell you?! We’re playing our show on power from the tide, wind, sun — one or all of the above — tonight.
We borrowed better shoes and walked around some crazy cliffs, muds, ferns, swooping swamping incredible views, up to massacre cave where the entire population of Eigg was smoked to death, all in one go, in the 1600s. We turned off all the lights and didn’t say anything for a while.
‘So I Cry Out’ by Gambles is as simple as music gets: a voice, a few guitar chords and a bucketload of raw emotion. It’s the sort of track that only an experienced artist could possibly have the self-assurance to…
On the cliffs at Esheness.
At the falconry on the way west to Eigg.
Muddy red deer and eagle owl.
Thom’s favourite movie ever.
All by Paul.
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The ninth studio album by the Oregon veteran marks a return to more conventional material after 2011’s Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs for Children. If that project seemed a surprising departure for “Two Beers Veirs”, this rock-tinged set…
We’ve been lost in a world of mist for days! Everyone in Shetland said it was a shame but that’s probably just their habit. I think we all thought it was beautiful and mysterious.
Saw airplaney Fulmars all over the super-shrouded Eshaness cliffs today. Giant pointy Ganets above the wake of the ferry earlier this evening — especially cool after reading about them in the St Kilda book….