Brudenell Presents
Steve Mason
Pictish Trail (solo)
Tuesday 30th January, 7.30pm
Tickets are £25 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.

*This is a standing show*

Found of The Beta Band and top Scottish indie-songwriter Steve Mason returns to The Crescent in January as part of Independent Venue Week.

Once a founding member of The Beta Band, Steve Mason is now best known as an artist with a rare melodic gift and an urge to experiment. From his debut solo album, the elegantly melancholy Boys Outside, to his latest release About The Light, Mason has never taken a step back, continually investigating where the boundaries between the craft of songwriting, technology and free expression lie.

Pictish Trail

I’m Johnny. I write songs and make music under the name Pictish Trail. My home is on the Isle of Eigg, a small island located within the inner Hebrides of Scotland. I run a record label / collective from here, called Lost Map.

Despite running Lost Map, I currently release Pictish Trail music through a London-based label called Fire Records. It feels good to have someone else in charge. They are lovely people, who have been very kind to me.

I don’t really know how best to describe the music I make. Maybe you’ve already heard it, and that’s why you’re here? Perhaps you want to hear more.

I write and record songs to try and capture the way in which I think I am able to write and record songs. I’m getting close, I can feel it. A lot of the songs are about isolation, and making sense of isolation, often finding comfort in it. A lot of the songs are about engaging with a sense of self, literally being self-aware, but also trying to escape from that. Maybe living on an island accentuates these push/pull existential feelings of belonging, and detachment.

If all that sounds quite pretentious, or – worse – just self-centred, I will say that even though a lot of the songs I write are about looking inwards, I’m ultimately interested in making music that is accessible to everyone else living on the planet. Yes, even YOU.

Brudenell Presents
Steve Mason
Pictish Trail (solo)
Tuesday 30th January, 7.30pm
Tickets are £25 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.