Busy summer ahead for Falkirk's 'Adam-of-all-arts' with album release and more

By James Trimble
Published 14th Jun 2024, 12:14 BST
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Falkirk very own renaissance man – musician, film director plus artist Adam Stafford – is releasing a new album, playing live at two LP launch events and a music festival and exhibiting his artwork this summer.

When he’s not making films, playing live or, well, sleeping, Adam Stafford is recording albums and his 12th LP is about to pop out digitally and in physical form.

Released on Friday, June 28 by Gerry Loves Records, Daylight Slavings makes it an even dozen solo long players for the prolific former Y’all is Fantasy Island frontman.

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According to the label, this record – which follows on from 2021’s Trophic Asynchrony – sees Adam showing influences from the likes of “Glenn Gould, Dominic Lawralee, Thelonious Monk, Dub pioneers Scientist and King Tubby and Su Tissue’s Salon de Musique”.

Adam Stafford's artwork - including this cracker 'So that's how me and Willie Doogan ended up on the homemade napalm' - will feature at a new exhibition in Edinburgh in August(Picture: Submitted)Adam Stafford's artwork - including this cracker 'So that's how me and Willie Doogan ended up on the homemade napalm' - will feature at a new exhibition in Edinburgh in August(Picture: Submitted)
Adam Stafford's artwork - including this cracker 'So that's how me and Willie Doogan ended up on the homemade napalm' - will feature at a new exhibition in Edinburgh in August(Picture: Submitted)

To launch the album, Adam and his trio will be playing Glasgow’s Hug and Pint on Thursday, June 27 and Edinburgh’s Mare Music at Summer Hall, in the Old Lab, on Saturday June 29. Support comes from Bell Lungs at both gigs.

Then on August 17 his solo art exhibition, The Indelible Whisperings of Technicolour Yawnbirds, opens at Vox Box Music, in St Stephen Street, Edinburgh and features the wonderfully titled “So that's how me and Willie Doogan ended up on the homemade napalm”.

Then on August 31 he switches back to live music again for a set at the Interesting Things Festival at the Tolbooth in Stirling.

Visit the website for more information on all of Adam’s latest LP.

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