Steven Lindsay
Biography
Kite
Steven Lindsay's second solo album is flying high.
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Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Steven Lindsay trained at the Glasgow School of Art, not intending at first to be a singer and musician. He was a member of the band The Big Dish in the late 1980's and early 1990's, along with composer Craig Armstrong. Although the band released two albums, Creeping Up On Jesus and Satellites, and Steven also had a spell as a television jingle writer, it wasn’t until his first solo album, Exit Music, was released in 2004 that Lindsay began to gain recognition for his musical talents. |
Exit Music got excellent reviews in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and Q magazine, and became an Album Of The Week in both The Times and The Sunday Times. It was also Scotland On Sunday’s Album Of The Year. Steven toured for a few months, then set to work on his newest release, Kite.
| Kite is a subtle electronic collection of 11 songs book-ended by two brief instrumentals. A world of ideas and unrealised dreams is the theme of the album, evident in airborne song titles such as the title track, Put Up The Flag, Skywriter, Kite, Catch A Star, as well as a cover version of Monkey Gone to Heaven by the Pixies. |
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Lindsay uses delicate string and horn arrangements and minimal instrumentation to create stunning musical landscapes. Combined with the inner beauty of his distinctive voice, Kite has earned Steven Linsday the accolade Album Of The Week in both The Sunday Times and News Of the World, and won him four- and five-star ratings from a number of reviewers.
Steven Lindsay will be playing the Oyster stage at the new Connect music festival at Inverary Castle, Argyll on Friday 31 August.
| For more information about Kite and forthcoming appearances, visit Steven Lindsay’s myspace site. |
Kite was awarded funding through the Scottish Arts Council's Creative Development & Recording fund. |