Tune Up - Music Touring Across Scotland

Alasdair Roberts Band

Glasgow-based Alasdair Roberts has now released 5 albums of tender yet driving folk music, since his 'discovery' via Will 'Bonnie Prince Billy' Oldham's advocacy on hearing a demo tape.
 
The last four of Roberts' albums have been on the large American indie Drag City and he has shared stages with Joanna Newsom, Magnolia Electric Co, Smog and countless others.

Roberts' repertoire is made up of his own compositions and jewels from the treasure trove of timeless Scottish folk songs he regularly plunders, delivering songs with his own deftly intricate guitar playing and a voice both bold and subject to fragility.

"Scottish folk singer Alasdair Roberts is an anomaly. His appropriation of antique songs calls to mind the prospecting of Daniel Day-Lewis's oilman in There Will Be Blood: he performs the subterranean, hardscrabble toil of research, then plunges his drill down deep, coming back with black gold."
The Independent

His most recent album 'Spoils' is widely regarded as his artistically most successful yet, and appeared in several recent end-of-year polls.

"With an extraordinary vocabulary of deliberate archaisms and seductive, and beautifully artificial, metre, Roberts has found a new way to remake the traditions that are folk's primary fuel."
The Wire

"Roberts is a songwriter who clearly has a very firm working knowledge of more traditional strands of the genre he occupies (his lyrics and guitar playing are, as ever, of considerable merit) but there's a free-roaming, ramshackle rawness to the recordings and presentation here that imbues a sense of intimacy and unconditionedness to proceedings."
www.boomkat.com

Roberts takes his earthen craft on the road for this tour in the guise of the Alasdair Roberts Band, a 4-piece comprised of himself, member sof his old band Appendix Out and members of Glasgow band Tatty Toes.