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A Billion Stones, from my new AIRD album, was on @bbc6music yesterday. I'm very grateful to @gideoncoe (guest presenting Guy Garvey's Finest Hour) whose support of my music over the years has meant a lot to me. It was thrilling to be played right before April 5th by Talk Talk which was a formative influence on my writing, AND I'm especially pleased that Gideon chose A Billion Stones, which was the first song I'd recorded at home since I was a teenager and the first new thing I'd written after well over a year of writer's block. Hearing @hamishbrownmusic's mix of this song was what convinced me I might have another album in me after all. I love the new @frasermacbeath.av exhibition at @anlanntair, a properly immersive installation whose technological elements apparently change depending on how many people are in the space, a comment on depopulation and the loss of Hebridean culture. Today it was just me in there and it felt like a ghost village, an alarm clock ringing relentlessly like a warning. SOUND ON for extra spookiness. I enjoyed chatting to Alistair Braidwood for his @scotswhayhae show, as you can see from this photo. If you're at all interested in why and how I made AIRD, this conversation is a good start. We covered a lot of ground, from the Cold War to the Blue Nile and from Gaelic place names to Blade Runner (as well as the brilliance of my producer @hamishbrownmusic). The whole interview - filmed in my 'home studio' - is now on YouTube at www.youtube.com/scotswhayhae You can hear me talking about AIRD on the @scotswhayhae show on @camglenradio tonight. AIRD album launch, @anlanntair, 23 March. Thank you @ralphtonge for the photos, to everyone who came out on a cold Wednesday night to see the show, and to the whole team at An Lanntair for being brilliant at every stage, from promotion to creating just the right ambience on the night (the art in the background is by @keithmcintyrestudio). AIRD made its live debut at @anlanntair last night. Big thanks to everyone who came along. Ralph Tonge took some proper photos which I'll share soon but here are a couple I took of my brilliant support act, Michael Winder, sound-checking and performing. Today I want to pay tribute to an important collaborator on my new album AIRD - Ziggy the dog. So many of these songs emerged while walking Ziggy up the hill or down to the beach that he should really get a co-writing credit. He is my daily reminder to get out into the world and clear my head, and a constant delight to be around. Here's a short clip of him doing one of his favourite things, playing with seaweed (there aren't many sticks to be found on this mostly treeless island). The music is from The Stream, a song from AIRD about walking on the hill with Ziggy in every weather the island chooses to throw at us. Thank you, wee pal, for everything you do. The music for AIRD's opening track was inspired by the intensity of Hebridean weather, so it feels fitting that that there are 60mph winds outside on the day it's released. Here's a new trailer, filmed yesterday on the cliff above the village and soundtracked by Everyone is Here (thanks to @hamishbrownmusic for making the song sound EPIC). SOUND ON. AIRD is out TOMORROW, on Spotify, Amazon and all the rest.
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