We are just back home from a short tour which was completely amazing! Every gig was sold out, attended by lovely, warm and supportive audiences, who bought the album and who were kind enough to give us standing ovations! We couldn’t be happier! Thank you so much to everyone who helped make the gigs happen […]
SoS Reviews incoming!
We’re delighted at the reception the album is receiving, and very grateful to all the people who have listened and shared their thoughts. Here are a selection of the press reviews: Bright Young Folk “Eliza Carthy, Mary MacMaster, Kate Young , Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans, Jenny Hill, Jenn Butterworth, Hazel Askew, Hannah Read and Karine […]
The Making of Songs of Separation
The album is out really soon! But in the meantime, here’s a wee film we made about Songs of Separation’s recording week, on the Isle of Eigg in June 2015. It’s a lovely insight into how we worked, played, laughed and sang, walked, talked, stayed up late and made an album in 6 days. Film […]
Songs of Separation – Beyond Borders
We are delighted to share the news that we will be supported to tour this work in 2016, by PRS Foundation’s Beyond Borders funding stream. This funding encourages bands to take their work ‘beyond borders’, touring in at least three UK countries. It is a collaborative funding stream, which comes from the different arts councils […]
News, sounds and visions!
Songs of Separation is moving to the next phase! With album artwork well underway (do you like it? see above), the final tracks mixed and mastered, gigs booked and our record company, Navigator poised to take over the promotional activities… Listen here to clips from the album (pre-master) including Sea King by Kate Young, Corncrake […]
SoS update – the journey so far…
Hello SoS pals! You might be wondering what we’ve been up to since our week on Eigg, where we worked til the wee small hours to arrange, rehearse and record an album of songs on the theme of ‘separation’? It was a fantastic experience – hope you’ve been spying on us through our videos on […]
Meet the SoS crew…Here’s Hannah James
There are ten musicians in the Songs of Separation gang, hailing from across Scotland and England. Some of you will know some of us… but in case there are a few of us you’ve not encountered before, here’s an introduction in the form of a short interview. Today, in the last of our interviews, we […]
The SoS Crew… Ever so Eliza Carthy
There are ten musicians in the Songs of Separation gang, hailing from across Scotland and England. Some of you will know some of us… but in case there are a few of us you’ve not encountered before, here’s an introduction in the form of a short interview. Today we feature Eliza Carthy, who comes from […]
The SoS Crew…. Jenny Hill spills the beans
There are ten musicians in the Songs of Separation gang, hailing from across Scotland and England. Some of you will know some of us… but in case there are a few of us you’ve not encountered before, here’s an introduction in the form of a short interview. Today we feature Jenny Hill, the double bassist […]
The SoS Crew… Karine comes clean
There are ten musicians in the Songs of Separation gang, hailing from across Scotland and England. Some of you will know some of us… but in case there are a few of us you’ve not encountered before, here’s an introduction in the form of a short interview. Today we feature Karine Polwart, one of Scotland’s […]
