Alasdair Roberts

Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician. He released a number of albums under the name Appendix Out, and following the 2001 album The Night is Advancing, under his own name. Roberts was born in Swabia, Germany, the son of former folk...

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...since. In 2000 Molina released three albums: The Lioness which was recorded in Glasgow by producer Andy Miller with help from Alasdair Roberts and members of Arab Strap , Ghost Tropic, recorded by Mike Mogis, and Protection Spells, a solo...

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Following hard on the heels of Spoils comes the second offering this year from Alasdair Roberts, an EP of four long tracks that brilliantly bears out the conjunction of ancient and modern, mythical and analytical, in the title The Wyrd...

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...raise the genre's profile. When the acclaimed leftfield folk-rock maverick Bonnie "Prince" Billy signed up the Scottish outsider Alasdair Roberts, who is partly inspired by the Scottish folk tradition, he demonstrated the way folk music is...

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...dubbed "postmillennial road-trip art-rock." Co-presented by WYEP Presents. ($10) Aug. 7: Bert Jansch with special guest, Alasdair Roberts. Legendary songwriter and guitarist about whom Neil Young said, "As much of a great guitar player as...

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Singer-songwriters like Alasdair Roberts have both a head start and a handicap when creating new albums. Roberts is a Scottish folk musician, and that comes with a long history and an equally long list of expectations. Fans of Scottish folk...

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by Alexander Tudor [Edit this content] ▾ 0 comments 10:24 April 23rd, 2009 Almost a decade ago, Alasdair Roberts made an incomparably weird record called The Night Is Advancing with his old band Appendix Out. Incomparable for the times...

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...Belle and Sebastian at the Shepherds Bush Empire. Scott Walker left the band in 1999, and was replaced briefly by Alasdair Roberts (of Appendix Out) and later by Gerard Love of Teenage Fanclub. He did return briefly to record "No...

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...being passed down through the generations and she talks gushingly about modern musicians such as Will Oldham's brother, Ned, Alasdair Roberts and Lisa Knapp, all of whom are performing at her festival. But she is concerned that folk is...

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Yes? Well, fuck them in the eye socket with their own falling-apart thesauruses! Better yet, fuck them in the eye socket with an Alasdair Roberts record-- with this record, Spoils. Because, damn, Alasdair Roberts has made the best album...

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