All I have from today’s lot is one track as provided by Jacques the Kipper via a homemade compilation CD that he gave to me more than 10 years ago. It was an oversight on my part that The Boy Who Trapped The Sun was missed out in the original alphabetical run through of Scottish singers and bands who have at least one song on the laptop’s hard drive.
So, who are TBWTTS?
This is an edited take taken from a promo blurb back in 2010 to accompany the release of the album Fireplace, which came out on Polydor.
“The Boy Who Trapped The Sun is 25 year-old Colin MacLeod – the ‘Boy Who’ moniker, he says, ‘feels bigger and less lonely’. Originally from the Isle of Lewis, a windswept outcrop of the Outer Hebrides, MacLeod was discovered swinging round the rafters of an Aberdeen bar, dishing out Deep Purple covers and, he says, ‘generally acting like an arse’. Having smashed his guitar and knocked himself unconscious on stage, he set to cleaning up both the broken instrument and his act. Thus The Boy moved to London, to become a solo artist and an adult.
And so emerged “Fireplace”, with MacLeod playing all the instruments bar the strings himself. It is a beautifully realised debut from an authentic new talent. Listen again and again.”
Here’s the song included on Jacques’ compilation CD, which turned out to be Track 2 from Fireplace
mp3: The Boy Who Trapped The Sun – Katy
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