Willie Campbell is a Scottish singer-songwriter based on the Isle of Lewis who first came to widespread attention co-fronting Astrid and as a founding member of Gary Lightbody’s Reindeer Section.
His current creative guise, The Open Day Rotation, has released 3 critically acclaimed albums with a 4th in the works, 2008 debut, Down by the Head, Toxic Good Toxic Bad, and in 2018 New Clouds in Motion, the latter produced by Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle and Sebastian).
His single release Local Man Ruins Everything from the collaborative album with award-winning author Kevin MacNeil was Single of the Week across a range of respected media including The Guardian, The List, and Steve Lamacq’s radio show. Campbell’s other projects include the Gaelic language album ‘Dalma ‘, ‘The Tumbling Souls’ and “Between Islands “- a collaborative inter-Island songwriting collective with Kris Drever and Arthur Nicolson. Campbell signed to Nashville-based Big Loud Shirt Publishing in 2010. Astrid’s 4th album “Fall Stand Dance” is out now on AED, longtime collaborator Edwyn Collin’s label.
“Campbell rises above all other references and stakes his claim to being one of the country’s truly great pop songwriters”. The Herald “Campbell and MacNeil’s first single is built around the former’s chiming music box-cadence, absolutely beautiful’. The Guardian “There must be something in the Scottish air that inspires this sort of thing. Regardless, it’s a gorgeous, compelling listen”. Drowned in Sound
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