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Roddy Woomble

Barney Morse Brown

Presented by: Swindon Arts Centre
0SWINDON: Arts Centre
PFriday 14th October, 2011
N8:00pm

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Familiar to many thousands of music fans as the front man in the Scottish rock band Idlewild, Roddy Woomble is also a celebrated solo songwriter & performer. He follows up the release of his acclaimed 2006 solo debut 'My Secret is My Silence' with a brand new album of new songs.
A native of Irvine - small-town Scotland writ large - Roddy Woomble co-founded Idlewild in 1995, naming the band for the quiet haven featured in his then-favourite book, Anne of Green Gables.
Given that the NME likened their early punk-fuelled sound - deftly revisited on their latest album, 2007's Make Another World - to "a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs", the quiet haven part was initially somewhat ironic, but gradually came closer as Idlewild meanwhile progressed through sweeping melodic rock to rootsy, melodic sparseness.
Extending that softer lyrical vein of Roddy's songwriting, 2006 saw his first solo release, My Secret Is My Silence, winning rave reviews across both the rock and folk press.
He was also a key instigator behind the acclaimed 2007 album Ballads of the Book, bringing together leading Scottish poets and musicians to collaborate on new songs.
Roddy went on to record and release the album 'Before the Ruin' with Kris Drever and John McCusker in 2008, which they toured extensively around the UK to much praise. The new album, recorded on the isle of Mull and produced by John McCusker will be released in the spring of 2011. As well as songs from the new album the set will feature tunes from 'My Secret is My Silence', 'Before the Ruin' alongside several Idlewild numbers.
Barney Morse Brown who is supporting Roddy Woomble comes from a musical family of seven children. Barney's passion for performance was soon established early on in his life. He was awarded a scholarship to study baroque cello at the Royal Collage of Music, but during a two-year break from the cello after university, Barney focused his attention on songwriting and teaching himself guitar. For those two years he worked extensively with other songwriters around Oxford, became more and more in demand on the session musician scene, and in his spare time, began to focus on his own songwriting and performing.

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