Up In The Air at The Mill Sessions
Back in November, rounding off the year for The Mill Sessions, we were fortunate to get the superb, Up In The Air – a trio of outstanding musicians. Jonny Hardie and Davy Cattanach are probably best known for their roles in the band Old Blind Dogs, while Gavin Marwick also plays in the sublime Bellevue Rendezvous, who I photographed before they played at the Mill back in the summer (see http://kimayres.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/bellevue-rendezvous.html).
Because Jonny and Davy live several hundred miles north of here, the only option for the photo shoot was the afternoon before their performance. And as the sun disappears quite early in November, in Scotland, we didn’t have a great deal of time to make the most of the light. Not that there was a great deal of light anyway, because it was a dreich, overcast day. Fortunately the rain held off just long enough, and I took some shots up behind Ruth and Gavin’s place where the skeleton of a barn has been built. With the hills in the background, it seemed as good a place as any to fire off a few photos.
In the end I was really quite pleased with this one
My wife, Maggie, has been a fan of Old Blind Dogs for a long time, and introduced me to their music back in the early 90s – so the prospect of a band mixing musicians from them and Bellevue Rendezvous had us both really excited at seeing them play live in that wonderful, intimate venue at The Mill on the Fleet.
And we weren’t disappointed.
Once again, I sat my camera on my knee and filmed a few songs. I know I usually only post one or two from a session, but when looking back through the selection I had, I couldn’t pare it down any further than these four.
Track 3 is the only one of these with singing – it’s called Twa Corbies, which is an old Scots ballard about 2 crows picking the bones of a dead knight (lyrics here if you’re interested http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_corbies.htm), and is an Old Blind Dogs favourite.
If you like what you hear, then you can download their new album, Moonshine, from all the usual places on the web, or buy the CD from a number of sites like this one:
http://www.musicinscotland.com/acatalog/Up-In-The-Air-Moonshine.html
Because Jonny and Davy live several hundred miles north of here, the only option for the photo shoot was the afternoon before their performance. And as the sun disappears quite early in November, in Scotland, we didn’t have a great deal of time to make the most of the light. Not that there was a great deal of light anyway, because it was a dreich, overcast day. Fortunately the rain held off just long enough, and I took some shots up behind Ruth and Gavin’s place where the skeleton of a barn has been built. With the hills in the background, it seemed as good a place as any to fire off a few photos.
In the end I was really quite pleased with this one
My wife, Maggie, has been a fan of Old Blind Dogs for a long time, and introduced me to their music back in the early 90s – so the prospect of a band mixing musicians from them and Bellevue Rendezvous had us both really excited at seeing them play live in that wonderful, intimate venue at The Mill on the Fleet.
And we weren’t disappointed.
Once again, I sat my camera on my knee and filmed a few songs. I know I usually only post one or two from a session, but when looking back through the selection I had, I couldn’t pare it down any further than these four.
Track 3 is the only one of these with singing – it’s called Twa Corbies, which is an old Scots ballard about 2 crows picking the bones of a dead knight (lyrics here if you’re interested http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_corbies.htm), and is an Old Blind Dogs favourite.
If you like what you hear, then you can download their new album, Moonshine, from all the usual places on the web, or buy the CD from a number of sites like this one:
http://www.musicinscotland.com/acatalog/Up-In-The-Air-Moonshine.html
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