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Indie band head to the Blue Lamp for Aberdeen gig


By Lewis McBlane

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Founding members (left) Charlie Clark and Willie Campbell.
Founding members (left) Charlie Clark and Willie Campbell.

MAJOR 90s Scottish indie band Astrid will play Aberdeen next month.

The band, playing their first north-east gig since the Covid-19 pandemic began on February 8, will mix classics with more recent tunes.

Combining swirling harmonies with a guitar-driven blues edge, the band have played alongside important artists including Belle and Sebastian and Snow Patrol.

The band were formed in Glasgow during the 1990s but has strong links to the Isle of Lewis, where original band members Charlie Clark and Willie Campbell.

NME described their sound as: “Impossibly beautiful power pop, laden with dizzying harmonies so airy and angelic it sounds like they might dissolve if you listen too hard."

After eight successful years the band broke up in 2004.

In 2015, however, they reformed and have been recording and playing shows since.

The band's show at Aberdeen's Blue Lamp venue comes on the heels of a new single, called Through the Darkness of Your Life.

Frontman Charlie Clark said: “Through the Darkness of Your Life is in some ways about getting older and using past experiences and knowledge gained to really start applying it to your life."

However, there are some unexpected influences on this single.

Charlie said: "During the pandemic I revisited a lot of Occult literature, power of positive thinking type books and lots of lectures by the likes of Alan Watts, Ram Das and Bob Proctor that I was interested in as a teenager.

"One book in particular, The Kybalion, which is a really small book but filled with all these amazing ideas and principles.”

Through The Darkness of Your Life will be streaming on all services from January 21, with a limited run of 300 seven-inch records available exclusively through mail order or at Astrid’s gigs.

The vinyl will also feature B-side Opposites Meet, a live fan-favourite originally written by William Campbell in 1999, but which remained unfinished and unreleased until now.

Tickets for Astrid's Aberdeen show can be purchased on: https://www.astridmusic.net/gigs/


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