Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke

About Me

Al met Al when they both joined a short lived Edinburgh based rock band in 2005. After many months of talking about playing together they finally got around to it at the start of 2006. Al spent the first part of the year learning the other Al’s songs and fitting bass parts to them, occasionally trying them out at some of the various open mic nights around Edinburgh (The Left Bank, Southsider, Whistlebinkies).

It’s now 2008 and AlKandAlC exist in two forms:the duo - kind of more folky. With acoustic guitar, fretless bass, aspirations of sounding like John Martyn, loop pedals and occasion slightings of custom 10 string guitars and Jenny.the band - Al swaps acoustic for electric. The other Al swaps fretless for fretted. And Lucy (fiddle) and Niki (drums) join in too. I guess it’s alt-country folk rock, without much country.

Alastair:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/29/2006
Band Members: ..Alastair Kilgour - vocals and guitar.
Alasdair Clarke - fretless bass, recording, programing and production.

Guests (to date):
Lucy de Butts - guest/backing vocals on "I Go mostly Everyday"
Katrina Clarkson - guest vocals on "Wish upon a star"
Jenny Sturgeon - vocals on the live version of "Trees"
Thank you's
Louisa Miller - artwork
Simon Bradly - supplied a nice microphone for us to use. Ta very much.
Influences:

John Martyn
Richard Thompson
Danny Thompson
Pentangle
Tunng
Paul Simon
Peter Gabriel
Tony Levin
Cat Stevens
Nick Drake
Pink Floyd
Fink

Sounds Like: Sounds like? Hopefully not too much like our influences.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Just Al

Hello, I've finally got around to starting a myspace for some of my silly little acoustic tunes which are roughly recorded so i don't forget them. Thought i might put them online to see if i get any f...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:31:00 PST

Back to ... acoustic Al and Al

Now that the band EP has been recorded (it'll be uploaded to last.fm soon....) it's back to concentrating on the acoustic stuff (another Forest Gig first Wednesday of August don't you know).So, we've ...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:15:00 PST

Band EP Recorded

Hello.Al C here. What a tiring day. :) Looking forward to a nice meal. But, we have managed to record a 5 track EP.Alastair Kilgour - Electric Guitar and VocalsJenny Sturgeon - VocalsAlasdair Clarke -...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:13:00 PST

Live from Henry’s

Hi everyone, Seeing that Al's added a link to some of the "rough" live stuff recorded a few weeks ago at our third gig, i thought i'd pinch a few and replace some of our more gentle acoustic songs upl...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Sun, 25 May 2008 03:05:00 PST

The Al and Al Band : Live and Rough Recordings

Hello. if any of you are interested, there are some recordings from the Henry's gig. You can download them from ym blog: http://riadsala.co.uk/2008/05/23/a-rough-and-i-mean-rough-re cording-of-the-al-a...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Sat, 24 May 2008 08:16:00 PST

Finally, another new song recorded...

Hello, Al C here. Just thought I should post a self congratulary post as we recorded a new song this afternoon, now titled "Talk All Day." From start to finish it took less and an hour and a ha...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:25:00 PST

Forest cafe - Blue Wednesday

Another packed house for another musical extravaganza (organised and made to happen, as always by The Bluesfather thankyou!). After the usual, and somewhat quirky mixing desk issues (it wouldn't be ...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:50:00 PST

Uluru

What a night in Uluru. During a blistering 45min set we had everything from forgetting how to start a song, forgetting how to end a song and super quick loops, along with the welcome usual l...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:53:00 PST

Gigs

Hello. Is anybody out there? We have three upcoming gigs :) First up, next tuesday we have a suprise warm up gig. A suprise as I didn't know we were playing it at the start of the week. :) Anyway, it'...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:40:00 PST

A long time

Its been ages since i finally got around to writing on our myspace, theres no excuse. In an effort to make up for this, i've uploaded a little song written a few days back. I've been writing a small h...
Posted by Alastair Kilgour and Alasdair Clarke on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:18:00 PST