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Waterhead Sky
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Making Waves Records
Ringan, Ireland, Bigton, Shetland, UK
Tel 01950 422342
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Special Offer
£15 for both CD's + £1.25 P+P
Available from...
Making Waves Records
Ringan, Ireland, Bigton, Shetland, UK
Tel 01950 422342
Members
Donald Anderson –
vocals, guitars, harmonica
Alan McKay – guitars
A 4
piece contemporary rock band made up of established Shetland musicians who have
featured at Shetland’s top music festivals since 2005. It has been featured at
all of Shetland's top music events including the Shetland Folk Festival, Shetland
Blues Festival, Flavour of Shetland and performed as part of the entertainment
programme for the 2011 Tall Ships Race in Shetland. The band provides an
exciting platform for singer song writer Donald Anderson’s material.
Donald
Anderson
Over the last twelve
years, Donald Anderson has performed regularly in Shetland, and has made
several appearances at the Shetland Folk Festival singing and playing his own
songs and for the past 5 years has begun working with the Donald Anderson Band.
Donald released his
first album, Waterhead Sky in May
2005, which received excellent reviews and positive
word of mouth feedback. Donald has also
contributed to recent albums (The Desert,
2003 and Edges and Spaces, 2005) by
local singer-songwriter Malachy Tallack, playing banjo and acoustic guitar.
Donald began playing
publicly during the 1980s as a floor performer in folk clubs. Since then he has
performed in several countries as a singer and guitarist, both solo and as a
member of Back up and Push and The Shining Pool.
Donald continues to write and perform his own
material, both solo and with his band, at every opportunity.
Duncan was born in Whitby, North
Yorkshire and started playing the drums at 10yrs of age, joining his first band
when at school (interesting fact no 1. :- the same school had a band fronted by
a vocalist called Kevin Whately, lately of Inspector Morse & Lewis fame- he
actually has a really good voice).
After
leaving school he joined a club band and spent the mid-70's playing on the
North of England Working Men’s Club circuit churning out Top of the Pops chart
music night after night (interesting fact no 2. :- just hearing Jeff Beck's
"Hi Ho Silver Lining" can still turn Duncan into a nervous wreck and
reaching for the Newcastle Brown Ale).
Getting
married and having children put paid to any playing for many years but Duncan
picked up the sticks again in the '90's forming an R&B/Pub Rock band to play
the local Teesside & Durham pub scene at weekends (interesting fact no 3.:-
Alan McKay
A friend of his dad commented that he thought Alan was getting pretty good on the guitar. His dad replied: “he should be, he does b..... all else!”
Playing in local bands with school friends
fanned his interest in music. In the mid ‘70’s Alan left the islands to
study architecture in
He continued playing in local bands including over the years: The Fantoms, Kinesis, The Broadcasters, The Mad Mental Ceilidh Band, Wayfarer, The Shining Pool and more
recently The Briggiestanes Blues Band. He also enjoys providing acoustic
guitar accompaniment to local singers / songwriters when the occasion demands.
Alan much enjoys playing with
Born in
He recorded albums and toured with The McCalmans and toured with other
well known Scottish artists such as Bobby
Eaglesham. It was in
Upon returning to
In 1979, the family returned to the