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Graeme Macdonald

About Me


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A singer songwriter led five piece with one foot in modern Scottish folk and the other in joyous pop. Combining an ability for sculptured melody and street corner tales with affections conjured from Bruce Springsteen’s broken American realism to REM’s observations on the human condition with quarter given to forbearers Idlewild, Aerogramme, Mull Historical Society, King Creosote & Frightened Rabbit.These are the songs born and bred of Scottish murk, dark humour and the triviality of life’s relationships

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Member Since: 09/07/2007
Band Website: www.myspace.com/graememacdonaldmusic
Band Members: Graeme Macdonald
Lesley Macdonald
Buddy Goldie
Iain Stewart
Stuart Caldo

Influences: From Mozart to Metalica to REM to Queen to Bruce Springsteen to The Cure to David Bowie to The Beach Boys to Idlewild to Johnny Cash to King Creosote to Union of Knives to Sigur Ros to Frightened Rabbit
Sounds Like: A pissed, depressed 80 year old in a Cave
Record Label: B Side Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Gaps in Time

If your life span was merely a week and you were given a task to do within that week, would you do it?  Would you carry out the instructions in that task as time ticked away?  Or would you throw that ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:50:00 GMT

til the day

The sun has finally come back to Glasgow even though I know it wont last long as April is just around the corner and with its arrival it brings the wind and the rain, two things Glasgow has more than...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:19:00 GMT

Thank You Edwin Morgan / Idlewild

Scottish Fiction It isn't in the mirrorIt isn't on the pageIt's a red-hearted vibrationPushing through the wallsOf dark imaginationFinding no equationThere's a Red Road rageBut it's not road rageIt's ...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:44:00 GMT

whats the lowest drink in here

"Squirrel whats the lowest drink in here", Says Mr Grant of Knives."I think Tiger is the cheapest, its only £1.50".  Replies Graeme Macdonald (Squirrel to the rest of the world)."No I mean what is the...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:02:00 GMT

Thinking seriously harms the self

I'm sitting here at work again, bored but with lots of work to be getting on with, telling myself that I have to try hard even though I don't like it.  But its bloody hard and because its boring ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:36:00 GMT

2009

2008 is at an end, 2009 begins.  I love New Year it means more to me than Christmas, mainly because I'm always debating with myself how to spell the bloody season and then have to opt for the opt...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:56:00 GMT

Greame MacDonald teachs Ally & Weav how to sing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWZazLdFR7I
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:40:00 GMT

Greame MacDonald - Falter/Discover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKVPlT6q5C0
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:39:00 GMT

Greame MacDonald - The Fight (with dodgey backing vocals..!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H602BwVWoh8
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:35:00 GMT

Nothing but Finance talk

It would appear the world has gone crazy, every time I turn on the television, listen to the radio, read a paper all I seem to see and hear is "credit crunch", "recession".  I do hope people unde...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:50:00 GMT