Constant Follower
Stirlingshire five-piece Constant Follower share stunning live session directed by Martin J. Pickering filmed from the top of The National Wallace Monument, overlooking their hometown.
The intimate session filmed earlier this year frames the serene beauty of Constant Follower against the sprawling backdrop of the Stirlingshire countryside and meandering tranquility of the River Forth in the crisp winter air featuring the tracks ‘I Can’t Wake You’, ‘Weave of the World’ and ‘The Merry Dancers On TV’ all of which are taken from the bands acclaimed debut album Neither Is, Nor Ever Was.
Now a resident of Stirling having spent a decade recuperating and re-learning to play guitar on Scotlands West Coast, after a random attack in Glasgow caused catastrophic head injuries and left him partially paralysed frontman McAll comments: "I don’t remember my childhood, but my mum took lots of photographs. I look so happy in the pictures of us at the Wallace Monument. I see how magical it is for my own children – the building, the mythology, the huge sword – and can only think it must have been the same for me. I see it every day when I open my curtains and wondered what it would be like to play up in the crown overlooking the city, and why no one had done it already. So it was a great surprise and an honour when Stirling Council made it happen. To be able to play while stretching our eyes over this beautiful landscape… sometimes it was hard to sing for the lump in my throat."
Commenting on the unique live session recorded atop The National Wallace Monument filmmaker Martin J. Pickering reflects: “Filming my oldest best friend's live set at the top of The Wallace Monument was definitely a once in a lifetime opportunity. On a good day, Stirling has the most beautiful light too. It's shimmery, golden and silver and just amazing for photography and film. It was a physical and brutal shoot because it was freezing and extremely windy but that all lent itself to an amazing end result on camera. I cried when I watched my edit back."
Live Dates:
20/07/2022 - Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh
21/07/2022 - Broadcast, Glasgow
22/07/2022 - Secret Location, Stirling
20/10/2022 - The Hollies, Tighnabruaich
21/10/2022 - An Tobar, Mull
24/10/2022 - River Garden Auchincruive, Ayr
25/10/2022 - River Garden Auchincruive, Ayr
26/10/2022 - The Glad Cafe, Glasgow
27/10/2022 - Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling
28/10/2022 - The Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
29/10/2022 - Inverness Cathedral, Inverness
30/10/2022 - Village Hall, Lochinver
17/03/2023 - Town Hall, Jedburgh
18/03/2023 - Regal Connect Theatre, Bathgate
