“terrific, unhinged chamber-punk” – The Herald
“coruscating … refreshingly raucous” – The Skinny
“Wilfully obscure” “eternally brilliant” – The List
“leaves you wondering quite what just happened” – CMU
“sonic alchemists with pop magic dancing from their fingertips” – NME
“open your mind to the grandly calamitous” – Julian Cope
“[An Eagle to Saturn is] a staggeringly brilliant album” – The Scotsman

The Leg are the sort of band who, if you warn people they’re about to hear a bunch of raging mentalists, sound surprisingly poppy. But then again if you don’t warn them, they’re liable to look at you as if you’re absolutely nuts, so I suppose the truth lies somewhere inbetween, then.

When Pete, normally the cellist in the band, told me he was playing a lot of piano on this one he described it thus: “and I can’t really play the piano, so it makes some very interesting noises”. On listening to the album, however, you can draw only one of two conclusions: either the piano is a deceptively easy instrument to learn, or Mr. Harvey was underplaying his abilities just a little.

The songs are familiar in many ways, though, full of weird imagery which is generally quite menacing, although it can hard to pinpoint exactly why. “I’m going to Amsterdaaaaam, to become a dominatrix, some things are just too…” And just as you think they’re going to descend permanently into weirdness, there they are with an oddly compelling pop hook emerging from the chaos.

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The first single from Adam Stafford's new album 'Taser Revelations' out on Song, by Toad Records in March 2016.

Contributions from Robbie Lesiuk (Bass, Acoustic guitar, Piano), Anna Miles (Vocals) and Greggor Douglas (Synthesiser).

Adam Stafford on tour in May 2015:
May 1st - New Port Sound, Rio Community Centre, Newport-on-Tay
May 2nd - Aberdeen, Cellar 35
May 5th - Tollbooth, Stirling
May 6th - Glad Cafe, Glasgow, w/The Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
May 7th - Leeds, The Fox & Newt
May 8th - London, Disorder @ The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch
May 10th - Summerhall, Dissection Room, Edinburgh

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Premiere Performance
The Edinburgh Quartet
City Halls, Glasgow 26th May 2015

This Recording
The Edinburgh Quartet
The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 27th May 2015

Violins: Tristan Gurney | Gordon Bragg
Viola: Fiona Winning
Cello: Mark Bailey

Silent Shores is my second string quartet, and was commissioned by the Edinburgh Quartet with funding from Creative Scotland.
I have always had a real affinity with the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde. I first visited when I was just six weeks old, and have returned at least two or three times a year ever since. I am always struck by its immense beauty, staggering ruggedness, untamed nature and wild, unpredictable weather, and I have spent countless hours in its many mountains and glens.

In early 2015 I made a very foggy crossing on the ferry from Ardrossan to Brodick (the main town on Arran), with the fog only lifting towards the end of the voyage to reveal Arran shrouded in thick, heavy mist. There was a real atmosphere of stillness: no wind, no calling of the birds, and barely any waves; their absence leaving me to simply absorb the island in its half-visible, blurred image.

Silent Shores loosely recounts this early-morning image of Arran. The work is constructed of three adjoined, yet distinct, sections. The first section features a slow-burning, tense violin melody that is continuously charged with energy from the accompanying ensemble. This melodic material is deliberately slow to expose itself, leading into a capricious, volatile middle episode with scurrying passages and angular, jagged interruptions. The energy is quickly dissipated, and fragments of the earlier melodic material are revisited in the final section. However, the material found here is hazier, disfigured, or damaged in many respects. T.H.

Text, image, and music © 2015 Tom Harrold

SILENT SHORES, for string quartet | The Edinburgh Quartet | 2015

Tyde play 'The Exploding Set' at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, on Fri 18 November 2011 as part of the 2011 Scots Fiddle Festival. 

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Tyde - The Exploding Set - The Queen's Hall's, Edinburgh - Fri 18 November 2011

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