Tag "Scottish Album of the Year"

May 03, 2013 No Comments Media & web

Falkirk's finest up for the Scottish Album of the Year – again!

For the second year in a row, Falkirk has produced a contender for the Scottish Album of the Year. Last year the prize was taken home by Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells. This year, jazz pianist Euan Stevenson and Glaswegian saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski’s genre bending jazz album New Focus is on the longlist for the prize alongside stellar names such as Emelie Sande, Calvin Harris, Admiral Fallow and Django Django.

September 10, 2012 No Comments Uncategorized

Cruel Summer by Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat

Recognise this cover of Bananarama’s Cruel Summer? Bill Wells and Falkirk’s own Aidan Moffat couldn’t sound or look more different. The video is by Paul Fegan. Wells and Moffat recently won the first award for Scottish Album of the Year for ‘Everything’s Getting Older’. Here’s what Moffat had to say about the need for Scottish awards – very persuasive but cleverly avoiding all the usual parochial arguments. ‘But more important