The opening number from the musical Taking Care of Business.
words & music by Robert Maitland

Taking Care of Business

First song

First Song

The title track from the musical of the same name.

Taking Care Of Business

Half A World Away is the new song written by Maaike Seigerist & Robert Maitland.
Written at Shennanton House at the Burnsong in collaboration with the UK Songwriting Festival Gathering 2013. Maaike and Robert both love the Jazz Standards and their AABA format and so Half A World Away was born.

Half A World Away

Half A World Away - Maaike Siegerist

Lauren Dalgleish (vocals) & Robert Maitland (guitar) with their arrangement of Ae Fond Kiss.
From the album 'Red Brick Road'
Album review - http://www.fabricationshq.com/2015-releases.html

Red Brick Road

Ae Fond Kiss

Ae Fond Kiss - Lauren Dalgleish

The Cheer Starts Here (Commonwealth Chant) was written and recorded with the P6 children from Braehead Primary School in Ayr. The project is called 'Creative Voices' and is part of the Digital Commonwealth Schools Project. Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow. The song was runner-up in the Big Big Sing competition and the children performed it on the main stage at the Queens Baton Relay and also at the Big Event during the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. 

The Cheer Starts Here

The Cheer Starts Here (Commonwealth Chant)

Seasons - Words & Music by Rebecca Wallace and Robert Maitland

Don't Leave These Words

SEASONS

Seasons - Rebecca Wallace

Voice In A Bottle - Words & Music by Rebecca Wallace and Robert Maitland

Voice In A Bottle

Voice In A Bottle - Rebecca Wallace

Gentle Lady words and music by Robert Maitland

Gentle Lady

Today - words & music by Robert Maitland
A song about living for today. Following the completion of the 'Digital Commonwealth Creative Voices' project at Alzheimer Scotland, I wrote this song to describe how I felt after meeting people with dementia.

Today

Once Upon A Christmas is a new Christmas song written by singer/songwriter & composer Robert Maitland. It's called 'Hoo Hoo Christmas' in Holland with Byentl singing, where it was a top ten single in 2013. It is featured on the the album Merry X-Mas in 2014 reaching the No.1 spot in the Christmas album chart and No.5 in the Dutch Album chart.
Available for download at - itunes, Amazon, HMV, 
Play.com etc. 

Once Upon A Christmas

ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS

All Is Well is a commentary on Social Media and the internet and the influence and effects it has on many. It has become an integral part of daily life so much so that large swathes of people's actions and opinions are controlled by it. The Intergod

All Is Well

Songcellar

Moonbeam

Robert Maitland - Moonbeam

Surprised (Original acoustic demo) featuring Laura Donnelly on vocals.
Words and music by Robert Maitland. Guitar - Robert Maitland.
Recorded and mixed at Carrier Waves, Glasgow by Keir Long and Andrea Gobbi.

Surprised (Acoustic)

Inspired by L. Frank Baum's 'Wonderful Wizard of Oz', this is the story of Dorothy's mother; Queen Jennifer of Oz as she flees Oz and sends Dorothy to Kansas in a twister.
This was my winning submission for Burnsong The Gathering 2013. From the album 'Red Brick Road'.
Album review - http://www.fabricationshq.com/2015-releases.html

Queen of Oz

Lauren Dalgleish & Robert Maitland - Queen of Oz

Robert Maitland - singer/songwriter and composer, writing in many styles.
Co-owner of EM Records and Smart Indie.
Top ten hit song in December 2013 in Holland with the song 'Hoo Hoo Christmas' sung by 'Byentl'. The same song is called 'Once Upon A Christmas' in the UK. Many artists have cut his songs in the past 3 years and more are set for release in the coming months.
His current project is the new musical ‘Taking Care of Business’, or TCB for short. 
Taking Care of Business is set in Edinburgh, in the year 1947. The music and drama all take place in a jazz club called ‘TCB’s’. 
When he's not songwriting he arranges for other artists and has recently been project 
Tutor for Scotland's national body for developing and promoting songwriting he recently led the national songwriting competition called 'Dumb Ways To Think'. Following a government initiative to highlight the problems caused by sectarianism, and funded through the VAF and Burnsong he set up the the competition. 
Born in Scotland to an Italian mother & Scot’s father. He has successfully led his own band for many years, and it was a natural progression to start writing about the many characters he met and the stories he heard.
MA Songwriting & Performance
BA (Hons) music
Ad, Dip. Film & TV Music

Robert Maitland

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