Tune Up - Music Touring Across Scotland

James Mackintosh

Shooglenifty: drums, percussion, piano

Hailing from the same Highland stamping-ground as Angus (the two first met at school in Fort William), James is widely recognised today as one of the most innovative drummers to have graced the scene in many a long year.

Yet another Swamptrash graduate, like his colleagues he honed his skills in the ever-livelier melting-pot of Edinburgh's session scene, before applying them to building and splicing the deliriously danceable grooves underpinning Shooglenifty's sound.

Those same skills have also been much in demand elsewhere, James having performed and recorded with Capercaillie, Mouth Music , Sola, James Grant, and Michael McGoldrick (among many others).