This track, the first single from the new Douglas Kay album Heist On A Bike, features special guest Carol Laula on vocals.

Written from the view of an old man and intended as a reflection on how easily we can overlook the whole life, when we deal with people who are in their later years.

Written by Douglas Kay.
Copyright 2020.

Heist On A Bike is released on 1st November 2021.

Heist On A Bike

At My Best

At My Best (featuring Carol Laula)

A mellow track taken from Douglas Kay Band's most recent album, "Into Your Head". The song topped a readers' poll of tracks by Scottish acts in the Edinburgh Evening News ahead of its release.
The first of the #12DownloadsOfChristmas from Douglas and the band!

Better (Douglas Kay Band)

The opening track from the new Douglas Kay album, Lift.

Available on CD and digital download.
Copyright Douglas Kay 2014.

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Casablanca Face

The lead track from the new album, Volcanoes, released on Friday 23rd February 2018.

Written by Douglas Kay.

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Volcanoes

She's Left Me Now

Originally featured on the 2012 album "Last Touch", this new 'band' recording of The Street Dragged Us Down was recorded for the 2017 EP "Winterland".

Winterland EP

The Street Dragged Us Down

Taken from the 2018 album Volcanoes, this bluesy track was written very much with live performance in mind and tips its hat to the Sun Studios vibe of Elvis' early recordings.

The backing vocals are provided by my very own Jordanaires - Alan R Davison & Martin Philip.

A Whole Heap of Trouble

Taken from the latest Douglas Kay Band album, "Into Your Head". Written by Douglas Kay.

Douglas Kay - Guitar, Vocals, Didgeridoo
Alex Hunter - Bass
Hugh Martin - Drums
Donna Maciocia - Backing Vocals

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Haunted

This duet with Joanna McQuillan is the opening track from the new album "Last Touch", out late October 2012.

All That We've Lost (featuring Joanna McQuillan)

Singer-songwriter Douglas Kay (“Thoughtful & passionate songwriting” Scotland On Sunday) has spent the past two decades recording, touring the globe and playing on bills alongside the likes of Billy Bragg, KT Tunstall, Colin Hay and Amy MacDonald.
The wealth of experience gained on stage has seen Kay develop into a hugely engaging live performer and formidable songwriter whose captivating, folk-tinged songs have gained critical acclaim and airplay worldwide.

HEIST ON A BIKE - Released November 2021
November 2021 saw the release of Kay's 6th album, Heist On A Bike. The 12 tracks contained therein showcase a songwriter/performer who is as much at ease in the studio as he is in the live arena, as he weaves together an absorbing work which demonstrates his assuredness across a variety of genres. 

With live music halted during the 2020 lockdown, Douglas Kay joined with a group of fellow songwriters - affectionately referred to as the Mutual Slating Society - to engage in weekly Zoom sessions during which each writer would perform a brand new composition for the others to critique. From these sessions emerged a clutch of songs which would form the basis of this new album.
 
Recorded at his base in Highland Perthshire during the spring & summer of 2021, it was very much a solo project with Kay writing, playing and producing. There is, however, a stunning vocal contribution from Douglas’ sometime live collaborator Carol Laula on the wistful track At My Best - a song based around a simple acoustic guitar hook which sees the elderly narrator ruing how the achievements of life are overlooked by others in old age. The other outside contribution comes with an appearance by South London saxophonist Chris Smallwood on the album closer, Stay With Me, a piano ballad written in tribute to Douglas’ father.
 
Elsewhere on the album Kay flexes his electric guitar-playing muscles in a way not seen since 2009’s Into Your Head, with the pumping, riff-driven Kick Out The Fire, the melodic rocker Break Us Apart and the raw, bluesy When The Devils Come. He also develops his use of vocal harmonies with multi-layered, Queen-inspired voices on Magnificent and on Nearer To Home, while the counterpoint vocal melodies on Run Aground and the mandolin-driven, country romp Strike Me Down hint at the influence of Crowded House and Simon & Garfunkel. Throughout, it’s Kay’s distinctive voice, memorable melodies and captivating lyrics which combine to deliver such a rewarding listening experience.

RECORDINGS 2003-18
The 2003 release of his debut album Of All The Towns To Sleep In generated airplay on radio and TV stations worldwide, including BBC Radio One, Australia's GWN & Xfm London. Its follow up, Douglas Kay Band's 2009 album Into Your Head, is a varied collection with moments of delicate beauty contrasted by the swelling crescendo of tracks such as Haunted.
The song Better went on to top a poll of tracks by Scottish acts in the Edinburgh Evening News.

An acoustic album, Last Touch, was released in late 2012, showcasing Kay’s vocals, guitar & piano, and hinting at some of his traditional folk influences. Lead track, All That We've Lost - a duet with Joanna McQuillan – received considerable airplay and critical acclaim. The tour Douglas played in support of that album included a guest slot for Grammy Award winner and former Men At Work frontman, Colin Hay.

Douglas returned to the studio in 2014 to work on Lift, which like its predecessors gained airplay on BBC Radio. Perhaps his most eclectic work to that point, the rootsy stomp of opening track Casablanca Face introduced a collection which veers from contemporary folk ballads to slide blues, from piano ballads to melodic guitar rock.

2017 saw a flurry of studio activity, the fruits of which arrived in December with the release of the Winterland EP (and accompanying video) and then in February 2018 with Kay's 5th album, Volcanoes.

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