Roddy Woomble

Doors 19.00 / Performance from 20.00

‘Lo! Soul’ – the latest release from Idlewild frontman and esteemed solo artist Roddy Woomble continues his unique and restless trajectory, gently stepping away from his previous acoustic/folk intentions in favour of a more explorative light, largely spoken word pieces over an ambient, meditative soundtrack.

Produced and mixed by collaborator and Idlewild bandmate Andrew Mitchell (aka Andrew Wasylyk), ‘Lo! Soul’ was recorded remotely between Roddy’s home in the Hebrides and Andrew’s studio in Dundee throughout 2020 while Scotland was locked-down. Roddy explains: “Andrew describes moments of the album as ‘Dystopian-pop’ which I think is as good a description as any. Lockdown gave me the sense of a collective melancholy, a shared remoteness and isolation – that has been a guiding influence throughout all the songs.”

Across his twenty-five year career, ‘Lo! Soul’ may well be Woomble’s most inventive, creative album to date. From undulating synths and ambient soundscapes in the abstract narratives of ‘Atlantic Photography’ and ‘Secret Show’, the sun-tinged horns of ‘Architecture in LA’, a mellifluous Mellotron or perhaps a piano chime. Here, the path is embedded with Roddy’s words delicately unearthing the known and never known.

With Support From Michael Anguish

A band of one man, Michael Anguish writes songs about love and the confusion of the cosmos. Place, memory, nature, loss and dreamed of landscapes all come together here.

A founding member of seminal Glasgow folk rock band, Foxface – Michael Angus now utilises the moniker of ‘Michael Anguish’ to share tender, sad songs embellished with an impressive emotional range and raw inventiveness. In his own words, “a dancing diamond shin[ing] through the heartache.”