Alasdair Roberts

Many thanks to all those inhabitants of Ulster and Eire who came to hear, see and support Alasdair, Ewan Walker and Alex Neilson on their Warp-Spasm Tour of those lands earlier this month.

The new recordings are finished - 12 songs, 8 or 9 of which will make the final cut for a new LP. The others will end up being released elsewhere. Provisional LP title: ‘Spoils’. Estimated release date: April/May 2009.

Live dates: Glasgow in December (Sankt Nikolaus Abend), London in November and January and more, more, more.

Alasdair Roberts Duo will play at the Field Day Festival in London on 9th August, followed by an appearance at the Luminaire, London, on 10th August. See Live page for more information.

The aforementioned Brazilian tour has been postponed. It is in the process of being rescheduled for September or October.

Alasdair has collaborated with David Toop on the Sonic Vista project, created by NuMusic in Stavanger, Norway. The piece, called Ocean Volumes II, features singing by Alasdair and music by David.

Two benches at lighthouses are fitted with MP3 players, which will play a piece of music when visitors plug in their headphones. One of these benches, at the Eigeroy lighthouse, Eigersun Municipality, Rogaland, Norway, is the site for Ocean Volumes II. Geir Jensen (Biosphere) has created a piece for another lighthouse. The Sonic Vista project is based on the idea of memorial benches, with one bench dedicated to a memorial for Karlheinz Stockhausen. The benches should be operational by April 12th and the project will run for a year.

A sweet live review here.

Check the Live page of this site for details of solo gigs in Norway and Finland at the end of February…

There you’ll also find details of an appearance at an event curated by Shirley Collins in Caer Llud at the end of March.

C Joynes has recorded a version of the Alan Roberts tune (a long-time A Roberts Jr live favourite) ‘Kilmahog Saturday Afternoon’ on his new CD release The Running Board (Anglo-Naive and Contemporary Parlour Guitar Vol III), available now from Leith Hill Recordings.

Duncan Williamson obituary.

See ‘Live’ page for details of appearances in December, in London (8th), Manchester (9th) and Glasgow (10th).

Alasdair will be make a few live appearances in England and Scotland in September. See the ‘Live’ page for more information.

Alasdair and band (Tom Crossley, Gerard Love, Dave McGowan) will be playing in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow at the beginning of June. Check out the Live page for more information.