Findlay Napier & The Bar Room Mountaineers

11 March 2010 (20:00 - 23:00)

Leading the Scottish new-folk revolution

Findlay and his band are leading the Scottish new-folk revolution with anthemic tales of love, debauchery and sin laced with black humour. He draws on influences from the darker side of genres like Folk and Country with a sound that remains uniquely Scottish.

Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers began playing together in October 2007. The project was inspired by a song, The Bar Room Mountaineers, that Findlay had learned from Scots singer Geordie MacIntryre while studying Traditional Music at the RSAMD in Glasgow. The story goes that with his former band Back of the Moon splitting up he needed a new project. Whilst running on Tinto Hill in South Lanarkshire he was caught in a rainstorm. Wearing nothing but shorts, T-Shirt and running shoes he bemoaned the fact that his fellow musicians were warm in Wiston Lodge below doing a bit of Bar Room Mountaineering he thought. At that moment the Bar Room Mountaineers were born. [source: wikipedia]

“It makes for unmistakably Scottish folk music but with a sophistication that distances itself from your average pub sing-along and marks the Bar Room Mountaineers out for distinction.” The List 2008