Roddy Woomble at The Musician

Date: Tue 13th Sep
Time: 20:00

Tue 13th Sep 2016
Roddy Woomble
£13.00adv £15.00door
plus No support
Doors 8:00pm - 10:30pm
youtube.com/watch?v=JaPNJnGN8Qs
roddywoomble.com
Will be on stage at 8:30pm

10th Anniversary Tour

First set ‘My Secret is my Silence’ & second set a mixture of material

A native of Irvine – small-town Scotland writ large – Roddy co-founded Idlewild in 1995, naming the band for the quiet haven featured in his then-favourite book, Anne of Green Gables. Given that the NME likened their early punk-fuelled sound – deftly revisited on their latest album, 2007’s Make Another World – to “a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs”, the quiet haven part was initially somewhat ironic, but gradually came closer as Idlewild meanwhile progressed through sweeping melodic rock to rootsy, melodic sparseness. Extending that softer lyrical vein of Roddy’s songwriting, 2006 saw his first solo release, My Secret Is My Silence, winning rave reviews across both the rock and folk press. He was also a key instigator behind the acclaimed 2007 album Ballads of the Book, bringing together leading Scottish poets and musicians to collaborate on new songs. After extensive recent touring with Idlewild, Roddy will be spending much of 2008 – as every other year – scribbling observations and lyrics in his notebook while out on walks.

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