Für Ewig blends energetic vocals, over the top of a crisp acoustic guitar, electric guitar licks and piano parts, and the song features an electric guitar solo and outro that crackles with a classic chorus effect. The track is for anyone and everyone trying to get a toehold in a world that is fast-paced and everchanging.

Für Ewig

Some Call This Normal

Few and Far Between is a reflective song for our times which utilises the vantage point of an independent musician and artist who is trying plot his way through life and manage the personal impacts of prevalent social issues by putting his insights and experiences to use.  The song is for anyone looking for encouragement and trying to keep going in spite of long-standing social issues which are, seemingly, inching beyond redemption.

Few and Far Between

Few And Far Between

It's 4am... expresses a deep concern for today's prevailing conditions as well as our direction of travel – war, rising far-right politics, austerity and endless cycles of crises.

The song communicates the frustrations of an artist exhausted by negativity and hostility filling the air, making up news items and setting the agenda by which we all live.

“Calum Baird is always an interesting and thought provoking songwriter, and this is the latest example of that” – Alistair Braidwood, Scots Whay Hae!

“Calum has again come up with something special with It’s 4am…” – Jim Gellatly, Amazing Radio.

It's 4am...

Beauty in the Worst of Times features a heartfelt vocal and honest, defiant lyrics which make a stand against social issues such as depression as well as alienating thoughts and day to day experiences. 

"A stunning piece of songwriting" - Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio USA

"Akin to Billy Bragg and Frank Turner.  Just brilliant" - Jim Gellatly, Amazing Radio UK

Beauty in the Worst of Times

Sundays In Berlin features a strong vocal and reflective, contemplative lyrics which explore the place of an individual as a single element in a global city with a long and deep history.  The song’s narrative employs the ideas, flavours and sounds of the city to ask questions, make observations, make sense of social, political and cultural issues and take insights that can help ascertain a sense of self in a world that is rapidly changing and mired in crises of war, rising far right politics, poverty, and climate collapse. 

An influence behind the song comes from the ideas and work of Cuban artist Luis Camejo.  Luis’ work focusses on the city as a concept and looks at the human relationship with the city.  He comments: “I always say that the city is like the epicentre of contemporary thought and philosophy…I represent the city as a human jungle.  That’s where man exists, he is just one element in it”.

Sundays In Berlin has an uplifting tempo and includes a wide range of instruments from guitars and keys to percussion instruments.  This arrangement helps set the scene and gives the audible impression of a day walking around a city.  The chorus is stripped back with a rising crescendo that conveys a clarity of thought, cutting through the noise and drum of the city before being swallowed up by it all again when the verse returns.

The track is grounded by an acoustic guitar with breezy guitar licks, an addictive bass line and Motown-style beat that drives the song.  The song winds up with a guitar solo outro reminiscent of The Beatles’ Ballad of John and Yoko.  Sundays In Berlin has many stylistic influences from poetry, art, film and contemporary indie rock and pop.

Sundays In Berlin

Following on from his previous single, Sundays In Berlin, Calum now guides listeners through observations inspired by time spent in Havana.

Based on a dream and set in the Cuban capital, Una Semana en La Habana immerses listeners in an experience of this old Cuban city. Complete with a Cuban Tres guitar solo, bongo drums and atmospheric street sounds, this short track asks questions about life, relationships and society as well as exploring what it is to be human in the world today.

The track is written in a classic singer-songwriter style and gives the impression of a traveller reflecting on their time in Havana, describing people, interactions and more of the city’s offerings encountered along the way.

Una Semana en La Habana

A song from the 2020 EP, A View From the Notebooks, all about internal contradictions, alienation, external contradictions in an eternally contradicted world and general introspection.

This song is entirely self-produced and the artwork used here is hand-painted by me, myself and I also.

With thanks to the Year of our Lord 2020 for the help and assistance in bringing this EP into being.

A View from the Notebooks

Ways of Being

A blend of raw energetic vocals, grungy acoustic guitar, electric guitar licks, synth padding and a smoky guitar outro. Taking inspiration from Phoebe Bridgers, Neil Young and Sharon Van Etten, this song is for anyone trying to cope with the Covid-19 crisis, the structures of feeling it has thrown up and is looking to the future with trepidation.

Stranger Things Have Come and Gone

Calum Baird is an emerging Scottish indie-folk singer-songwriter and is tipped for 2024 by Tom Robinson (BBC Radio 6 Music). Calum’s music is characterised by its honesty and authenticity, with lyrics that are often introspective and personal. His songs explore social commentary, modern life, relationships, alienation and social change. Calum’s influences include Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Dick Gaughan, Billy Bragg, Phoebe Bridgers and Phil Ochs.

Calum’s music has been featured on radio stations across the UK and internationally, and he has performed at festivals and events throughout the UK and Europe. He has been featured in online media and the press, including in Scotland on Sunday as their Artist of the Week.

In addition to touring and writing his own music, Calum wrote and composed the musical score for the award-winning feature-film Exiles (2021) written by Glasgow poet and writer, Victoria McNulty.

“Echoing early Billy Bragg with his dogged optimism” – Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

“A rising Scottish folk star“ – Jim Gellatly, Amazing Radio

“A wonderful songwriter” – Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio USA

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