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Ruaridh Campbell

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About Me


Hi, I'm a fiddle player, I'm 25, I've been playing for about 16 years now. I studied music at Strathclyde university where I specialised in classical violin. My main project now is my duo with accordionist Angus Lyon. We released our second album in 2006 called '18 Months Later'. Working on a new album at the moment - should be ready some time summer 2007. MyGen Profile Generator

Below is a video I put together from footage shot during the recording sessions of the '18 Months Later' album. Location is 'An Tobar' on the island of Mull, west coast Scotland.

You can buy my album using Paypal!

18 Months Later CD (UK P&P) - £10.99
18 Months Later CD (Worldwide P&P) - £11.99
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/14/2006
Band Website: anguslyon.co.uk
Band Members: Ruaridh Campbell - fiddle, viola
Angus Lyon - accordion, piano, rhodes
Duncan Lyall - double bass
Alan Train - guitar
Mark Duff - whistle
Martin O'Neill - bodhrán
J Simon van der Walt - trumpet, flugelhorn
Influences: Music:
Into the John Mayer Trio, Ryan Adams, Dave Matthews Band, Sigur Rós, Astor Piazzolla, Nickel Creek, Michael Nyman, Craig Armstrong, the Oscar Peterson Trio, Flook, The Blue Nile, Angie Stone, Martha Wainwright, Joni Mitchell's new stuff, Tom Waits, Take 6, Moxy Früvous, Ben Folds, Johnny Cash...

FILM:
Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gattaca, Dr Strangelove, Mulholland Drive, The Matrix (first one), Fight Club, American History X, Requiem for a Dream, Alien, Schindler's List , Donnie Darko

TV:
Family Guy, The Simpsons, South Park, Twin Peaks, 24, Waking the Dead, documentaries, BBC Planet Earth

Books:
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller, Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg, Down and Out in Paris & London - George Orwell, The Algebraist - Iain M Banks, Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick, Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell, His Dark Materials - Pilip Pullman, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick, Slaughter House Five - Kurt Vonnegut, The Tales of the Otori Trilogy - Lian Hearn, Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh...

Other
Photography - got my first Canon 5D recently and love it. Also interested in graphic design/animation and website design. I also love to cook and to learn anything sciency... check out Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki's science podcast :-)
Record Label: Mirrlees Records
Type of Label: Indie

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