Tide Lines

Glasgow-based 4 piece, Tide Lines, have grown their large & passionate fanbase through blistering live shows and their trademark anthemic songs. Bending the edges of a number of genres, their neo-folk/rock sound has massive appeal.
This unique appeal stems from escapist lyrics mixed with driving undercurrents of drums, guitars and keyboards, with themes based firmly in the band members musical roots.

The band's first studio album Dreams We Never Lost was released in June 2017 following the release of their first single Far Side Of The World some months earlier. The album is a mix of English and Gaelic songs as well as the rousing Piob Mhor Pipe set. Two further singles "Fortunes of the Fearless" and "The Young and The Restless" were also released as singles from this album.

In October 2018 the band released a six track EP entitled "Lets Make Tonight. Two singles, "Heroes" and "Running at the Dark" were released prior to the EP, Heroes won the Video of the Year at the 2018 Na Trad Awards. The Ep also contained a live version of "Far Side of the World" recorded at the HebCelt Music Festival in 2018. In November the band sold out the legendary Scottish music venue Barrowlands in Glasgow.

Their second album, again self produced and self released ‘Eye of the Storm’, arrived in the depths of lockdown in May 2020 yet still debuted at #12 in the Official UK Album Charts - narrowly missing the top 10. ‘Eye of the Storm’ also topped both the Scottish and Independent album charts on the week of release.

Eye of the Storm was another heady mix of English and Gaelic tracks including a hugely powerful reworking of "Cànan nan Gàidheal". Released during lockdown the band had to use many of their fanbase to create clever videos to tracks Innocent and Beautiful and Taste the Rain.

Album tracks "Shadow to the Light" and "Innocent and Beautiful" were released as singles.
In Late December 2020 the band issued a small scale release through their own website called the "Lockdown Mix Tape" consisting of three cover songs and the sublime "This Christmas Time". "This Christmas Time" was re-released as a single in 2022 as a duet with brilliant new Scottish musician NatiDreddd.

"Rivers in the Light" was released in July 2022 as new material from the planned third studio album, again self produced and recorded at the group's own studio. "Written in the Scars" was released in September 2022 as the band announced "An Ocean Full of Islands" their much anticipated third studio album. The album is due for release in early March 2023.

A full UK Tour was announced at the same time.

Members

Tide Lines consists of Robert Robertson from Lochaber, Ross Wilson from the Isle of Mull, Alasdair Turner from Easter Ross, and Fergus Munro from Glasgow.

*Robert Robertson - Vocals & Guitar
*Alasdair Turner - Electric Guitar & Bagpipes
*Ross Wilson - Keyboard
*Fergus Munro - Drums

Discography

Albums
* ''Dreams We Never Lost'' (2017)
* ''Eye of the Storm'' (2020)
* ''An Ocean Full of Islands'' (2023)

EPs
* Let's Make Tonight (2018)

Singles and songs
*"Far Side of the World" (2016)
*"The Young and the Restless" (2017)
*"Fortunes of the Fearless" (2017)
*"Streets of Dreamers" (2018)
*"Let's Make Tonight" (2018)
*"Running at the Dark" (2019)
*"Heroes" (2019)
*"Shadow to the Light" (2020)
*"Innocent and Beautiful" (2020)
*"Eye of the Storm" (2021)
*"Rivers in the Light" (2022)
*"Written in the Scars" (2022)
*"These Days" (2023)

References

External links

Official website

Scottish folk music groups

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