DMW have announced a show in Hawick in the Scottish borders on thurs Aug 26th. A ten date November tour will also be announced shortly.
Roddy will make his first 'solo' appearance since 2007 on September 4th at the palace theatre in Kilmarnock as special guest to Eddie Reader. He will be performing with guitarist Sorren Maclean, and they will be playing songs from Roddy's upcoming second solo album alongside other favourites.
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13th July 10New Shows
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7th May 10DMW live in August
Two shows have been announced for August this year - Shrewsbury folk festival and the Queens hall the following night as part of the Edinburgh festival. Another week of DMW concerts will take place at the beginning of November. These will be announced shortly.
Roddy is also lining up concerts of his own for 2011 to co-incide with the release of his second solo album, currently being written & demoed.
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11th July 09DMW date in Musselburgh
Roddy, John and Kris have announced a show following their Colonsay folk festival appearance at the Brunton theatre
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24th May 09Summer Festivals
Here is the list of Roddy's confirmed festival dates this summer....
with Drever, McCusker & Woomble
June 13th - Wimbourne folk festival
June 20th - Mugdock music festival
July 18th - Brampton Live
July 20th - Llangollen fringe festival
August 22nd - Beautiful days festival, Nr Exeter
September 5th - Mosely folk festival
September 19th/20th - Isle of Colonsay folk festivalwith Idlewild
July 4th - Godiva festival, Coventry
July 10th - T in the Park festival, Balado
July 24th - Wickerman Festival, borders
August 2nd - Kendal Calling, Kendal
August 14th - Summer Sundae festival, Leicester
August 21st - Arundel Castle music festival, Arundel
Aug 28th - Wizard festival, Aberdeenshire -
25th April 09Last column for the Sunday Herald
Due to changes at the newspaper, Roddy will no longer be writing a weekly column for the Sunday Herald. In total he wrote 63 weekly columns, all of which are available to view on the sunday heralds website. His monthly 'woombles way' column in the TGO magazine is still very much alive, this month it's Ben Lomond. Anyway, here's his last herald column.....
'THE ISLE of Coll sits but 50 miles from the port of Oban, reached by trusty Caledonian MacBrayne ferry. I've mentioned it a few times here, the Isle Of Coll hotel especially, which is one of the best in the Scottish islands, with a great bar and restaurant to boot. But the island itself is a picture of Hebridean quiet and loveliness.
I'm over for a holiday, staying a week in a wooden house by a beach. The Cabin, built in the 1930s, is pretty much my ideal home. Inside, it looks like it has been made from driftwood, and you have to drive through a couple of fields to get to it. Five miles from the only village on the island, and just under three hours over the sea from the mainland ... to say it's remote would be correct, and therein lies much of the appeal.
Spring is always a welcome time of year and a cause for celebration. And whether you put significance on them or not, Easter eggs are a great invention, another cause for celebration, a seasonal excuse to eat chocolate. This year, I amassed quite a few, which I'm now enjoying sitting outside on the grass, watching the daffodils. They're poignant flowers, well known over time to stir the muse of many a romantic poet. I wouldn't go that far myself, but I can see their significance in heralding the coming of spring and warmer weather, and indeed how they hold the bright yellow of summer as well as the pale glow of winter.
I've written before about music you wouldn't necessarily associate with a place that nevertheless creates an unlikely soundtrack for the surroundings - my examples were dub reggae in Orkney and flamenco jazz in Tayside. Unusual maybe, but eerily compatible. Here in Coll, it's krautrock that's doing the trick. I'm talking about that clutch of experimental German rock bands in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a label that stuck to bands like Can, Neu! and Harmonia, my new favourite. There's something about their minimalist ambient workouts that really suit the mood of the Hebridean springtime. The bright sky, the lapping of the sea on the shore, gulls circling above. Whatever I'm doing, be it collecting wood for the fire, making jam or simply staring out into the distance over to Mull and the Treshnish islands, these pulsing krautrock rhythms are soundtracking it.
Not all the time, mind you, for there's nothing quite as nice as a silent sunset. Sitting here on the grass in front of the cottage, with bleating lambs in the field and daffodils blowing in a gentle Atlantic breeze, it's a vision of springtime if ever there was one. It also seems as good a place as any to leave this column, as this is my last weekly contribution. Hopefully you've enjoyed reading my ramblings over this past year or so as much as I've enjoyed writing them.'

