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Big Rock Records is thrilled to present our first gig of 2024!
SATURDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2024
Constant Follower plus Afterlands (feat. Rick Anthony/Redbeard)
Including sets from The Gunners DJs
Rio Community Centre, Newport-on-Tay
This gig is a BYOB event.
Constant Follower
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Big Rock Records is thrilled to present our first gig of 2024!
SATURDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2024
Constant Follower plus Afterlands (feat. Rick Anthony/Redbeard)
Including sets from The Gunners DJs
Rio Community Centre, Newport-on-Tay
This gig is a BYOB event.
Constant Follower
Watch Constant Follower playing at the top of the Wallace Monument
Constant Follower is the band formed around Scottish songwriter Stephen McAll. His debut album for legendary New York indie label Shimmy Disc was shortlisted for the 2022 Scottish Album of the Year Award (SAY) and found its way onto the top of multiple Best Albums of 2021 lists, leading to a string of notable performances including Austin's SXSW 2022 and 2023, and a spellbinding set from the crown of Scotland's National Wallace Monument. A triumph after tragedy, the album was McAll's first work many years after an unprovoked attack in his late teens left him with catastrophic head injuries, partially paralysed and unable to write or play guitar. The following decade was spent recovering on the West Coast of Scotland, learning to live, and eventually picking up the guitar to allow songs to emerge that form his acclaimed debut Neither Is, Nor Ever Was.
In addition to his band endeavours, in April 2023 McAll released a collaborative album with renowned folk guitarist Scott William Urquhart. This exceptional work, released on McAll's own Golden Hum Recordings label, has garnered widespread critical acclaim and has been longlisted for the 2023 SAY Award. Described as "an enchanting, deeply absorbing, and meditative album" (Folk Radio), it showcases the musical affinity and unique talents of these two Scottish songwriters and musicians. The duo have already embarked on their next project, which is currently in the works and scheduled for an early 2024 release.
Now, Constant Follower eagerly await the release of their much anticipated second album, slated for mid 2024. McAll helmed the recording and production, capturing the essence of their sound from his Stirling base before venturing to Austin, Texas, to collaborate with the esteemed Dan Duszynski (Loma/SubPop) for mixing in March 2023. The upcoming album promises to build upon their previous success, unveiling new dimensions of Constant Follower's sound.
"A gorgeous listen, full of bucolic melody and personal revelation, an album unafraid to speak its truth." CLASH Magazine
"Instantly compelling, memorable and moving" Folk Radio UK
"Neither Is, Nor Ever Was is a gentle, understated, fully formed and utterly beguiling collection." The Scotsman
"An intimate and raw collection of songwriting, born from small, personal moments and orchestrated into stirring layered beauty." Under The Radar
"Gorgeous atmospheric Folk" KEXP
"The debut album from Constant Follower, Neither Is, Nor Ever Was, is solitary, forlorn, and wild – and in all the best ways possible." SNACK Magazine
"A gorgeous struggle, deeply human and complex and ground in McAll's reckoning with vivid moments that seem to carry lifetimes within them." The Austin Chronicle
Afterlands
Constant Follower is the band formed around Scottish songwriter Stephen McAll. His debut album for legendary New York indie label Shimmy Disc was shortlisted for the 2022 Scottish Album of the Year Award (SAY) and found its way onto the top of multiple Best Albums of 2021 lists, leading to a string of notable performances including Austin's SXSW 2022 and 2023, and a spellbinding set from the crown of Scotland's National Wallace Monument. A triumph after tragedy, the album was McAll's first work many years after an unprovoked attack in his late teens left him with catastrophic head injuries, partially paralysed and unable to write or play guitar. The following decade was spent recovering on the West Coast of Scotland, learning to live, and eventually picking up the guitar to allow songs to emerge that form his acclaimed debut Neither Is, Nor Ever Was.
In addition to his band endeavours, in April 2023 McAll released a collaborative album with renowned folk guitarist Scott William Urquhart. This exceptional work, released on McAll's own Golden Hum Recordings label, has garnered widespread critical acclaim and has been longlisted for the 2023 SAY Award. Described as "an enchanting, deeply absorbing, and meditative album" (Folk Radio), it showcases the musical affinity and unique talents of these two Scottish songwriters and musicians. The duo have already embarked on their next project, which is currently in the works and scheduled for an early 2024 release.
Now, Constant Follower eagerly await the release of their much anticipated second album, slated for mid 2024. McAll helmed the recording and production, capturing the essence of their sound from his Stirling base before venturing to Austin, Texas, to collaborate with the esteemed Dan Duszynski (Loma/SubPop) for mixing in March 2023. The upcoming album promises to build upon their previous success, unveiling new dimensions of Constant Follower's sound.
"A gorgeous listen, full of bucolic melody and personal revelation, an album unafraid to speak its truth." CLASH Magazine
"Instantly compelling, memorable and moving" Folk Radio UK
"Neither Is, Nor Ever Was is a gentle, understated, fully formed and utterly beguiling collection." The Scotsman
"An intimate and raw collection of songwriting, born from small, personal moments and orchestrated into stirring layered beauty." Under The Radar
"Gorgeous atmospheric Folk" KEXP
"The debut album from Constant Follower, Neither Is, Nor Ever Was, is solitary, forlorn, and wild – and in all the best ways possible." SNACK Magazine
"A gorgeous struggle, deeply human and complex and ground in McAll's reckoning with vivid moments that seem to carry lifetimes within them." The Austin Chronicle
Afterlands
Listen to Afterlands' debut single 'I woke to the sound of the wind'
Born as a way of staving off madness during lockdown and patiently nurtured into one of the most exciting projects either of its architects have turned their hands to, Afterlands is Rick Anthony (The Phantom Band / Rick Redbeard) and David McAulay (Strike the Colours / From Scotland With Love).
Rick Anthony is a Scottish singer and songwriter originally from Aberdeenshire and now based in Glasgow. He is the lead singer and guitarist in the alternative rock band The Phantom Band and also performs as a solo act and releases music under the pseudonym Rick Redbeard.
Anthony began performing solo shows sometime in the mid-2000s, assuming the name Rick Redbeard due partly to its pirate connotations. A notable show during this early period was an appearance at the 2007 Connect Music Festival on the Yoursound Bandstand alongside other emerging Scottish acts such as Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad. His music is generally categorised as alternative country or alternative folk music and has been likened in sound to Leonard Cohen, Bill Callahan and Will Oldham among others.
David McAulay is an artist, engineer and composer. He worked with Remember Remember on their album The Quickening (nominated for Scottish Album of The Year 2011), Shetland Fiddler Jenna Reid, Delta Mainline (on their critically acclaimed new album Oh! Enlightened), Mogwai, Mike Heron and Trembling Bells, Burntisland, Beecake and Moth and The Mirror. David has also completed the film From Scotland With Love as music supervisor and sound designer, working alongside acclaimed producer Viriginia Heath and artist King Creosote on the soundtrack released by Domino Recordings in July 2014.
Born as a way of staving off madness during lockdown and patiently nurtured into one of the most exciting projects either of its architects have turned their hands to, Afterlands is Rick Anthony (The Phantom Band / Rick Redbeard) and David McAulay (Strike the Colours / From Scotland With Love).
Rick Anthony is a Scottish singer and songwriter originally from Aberdeenshire and now based in Glasgow. He is the lead singer and guitarist in the alternative rock band The Phantom Band and also performs as a solo act and releases music under the pseudonym Rick Redbeard.
Anthony began performing solo shows sometime in the mid-2000s, assuming the name Rick Redbeard due partly to its pirate connotations. A notable show during this early period was an appearance at the 2007 Connect Music Festival on the Yoursound Bandstand alongside other emerging Scottish acts such as Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad. His music is generally categorised as alternative country or alternative folk music and has been likened in sound to Leonard Cohen, Bill Callahan and Will Oldham among others.
David McAulay is an artist, engineer and composer. He worked with Remember Remember on their album The Quickening (nominated for Scottish Album of The Year 2011), Shetland Fiddler Jenna Reid, Delta Mainline (on their critically acclaimed new album Oh! Enlightened), Mogwai, Mike Heron and Trembling Bells, Burntisland, Beecake and Moth and The Mirror. David has also completed the film From Scotland With Love as music supervisor and sound designer, working alongside acclaimed producer Viriginia Heath and artist King Creosote on the soundtrack released by Domino Recordings in July 2014.
