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Kindred spirits, collaborators, and just stuff we like in general.
Daniel Warren
http://www.youtube.com/danielwarrentv
Daniel has made four films featuring Swimmer One music, and designed the cover art for our first two singles. He also worked with Hamish on Public Private, a film commissioned by Scottish Ballet and the National Galleries of Scotland. You can watch all of his work to date here
Astrid Williamson
www.astridwilliamson.net
The fact that we know Astrid is, I’m guessing, the reason why so many sensitive singer songwriter types with acoustic guitars keep pitching up at our MySpace page, wanting to be ‘friends’ with us. For the record, I’m not really very interested in sensitive singer-songwriter types with guitars in general, just Astrid (and Roddy Frame, and Fionn Regan, and Lloyd Cole, but that’s about it). It’s something about that voice - she’s lived in Brighton for years but you can still hear Shetland in it. You can hear her breathing when she sings, and it’s like a wind blowing over the islands. Lovely.
Ages ago we did a remix of her song Never Enough, which has been almost finished ever since. One of these days we’ll finish it. We made her sound like Kylie, a result she was slightly ambivalent about (although she was very nice about it). It could be a huge hit, really.
Andrew
Kirsty Whiten
www.kirstywhiten.co.uk
Kirsty is one of my favourite Scottish artists. If I had lots of money, I’d buy lots of her art. If you have lots of money, you should do it instead. Or just go to her website and look at it. She does strange, eccentric, sometimes slightly disturbing portraits. More recently, she’s been trying more conceptual stuff, working with two other people I know and admire, the photographer Jannica Honey and our friend Laura.
Kirsty also did the artwork for the cover of Aberfeldy’s first album, Young Forever. It was a picture of two lions fucking, if I remember rightly.
Andrew
SL Records
www.slrecords.net
Our friend Ed’s record label, ten years old this year! Think Domino or Wichita are indie? Pah. THIS is indie. Ed has released records by the Starlets, St Jude’s Infirmary, ballboy, Desc, Khaya, Misty’s Big Adventure, Thomas Truax and numerous others. The Starlets’ second album, in particular, is wonderful. Our early gigs were on stages shared with a few of the bands on the above list. Daniel Warren, who has made several films for us, has also made films for Ed.
Click Opera
imomus.livejournal.com
Click Opera is the online diary of Momus, singer-songwriter, intellectual, provocateur and one-time tender pervert. It’s updated daily, and endlessly insightful and entertaining.
Andrew
The hum (of Largs and elsewhere)
homepages.tesco.net/~John.Dawes2/page1.htm
Wondering what the hell our song Largs Hum is about? It was inspired by this site (as well as a story on the subject by Stephen Naysmith in the Sunday Herald newspaper). The idea behind the song was, loosely, to create a Scottish conspiracy theory. We have virtually none in this country, compared to the Americans for example, who have lots. My theory is that we don’t think highly enough of our own government to believe them capable of coming up with a decent conspiracy. That bunch of numpties keep an alien invasion secret for decades? Not a chance. (America, by contrast, has loads of conspiracy theories, which maybe tells you something about what Americans think of their government. Or that Americans are just more bonkers than we are.)
So I decided I’d have to invent one. There is a mysterious hum in Largs. No one really knows what causes it. Only a few people can hear it. What is it? Do the churches know? Does the parliament know? Woooo.
Andrew
David Leddy
www.davidleddy.com
A Glasgow-based writer and performer whose work you should go and see. It may involve going to his flat or walking around a botanic garden wearing headphones, so be ready for that. He also makes nice cocktails, and you can see the international space station from his balcony.
Andrew
