Summary
IT IS going to be difficult for the music critics to pan the lyrics on this album. Some of Scotland's leading writers and musicians have joined forces in an unprecedented cultural collaboration due to hit record stores later this summer.
Writers such as Edwin Morgan, Ian Rankin and Alasdair Gray have been paired with bands including Idlewild and The Trashcan Sinatras in one of the most unusual and ambitious artistic projects undertaken in Scotland in decades. Each of the 17 tracks of the CD involved a big-name writer producing the lyrics and a top band or artist writing the music. The result, according to Idlewild singer Roddy Woomble, pictured, is a "a very special concept poetry record".See the full content of this document
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Word's Out On a Unique Cultural Collaboration
The album, due for general release this September, has its modest roots in a letter written several years ago.
Woomble wrote to Morgan asking if he would pen something for the band. Morgan obliged a...See the full content of this document
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