Doug MacLeod Blues Legend

Knox's church, Howard st, Arbroath, Sunday June 14th 2009 ,7/30pm Price £8 adults, £5, under 16yrs..in aid of the Malawi fund at St Andrews church . for tickets phone Doris  01241872690, or 07533598464.

Doug MacLeod
LIVE at St Kyneburgha's Church, Castor last year .


If you have seen Doug before you will know how good his shows are. With his interesting introductions and tales of the road leading into personal songs. Some are sad, some humorous, but all are held together by his sparse and ‘just right’ guitar playing. This time there was much more and I’m sure that the atmosphere of the beautiful St. Kyneburgha’s Church had a special effect on him.

If I was to mention the evening’s highlights I would have to list most of the two and a half hours worth of songs. However, there were two numbers which towered above all the others; the first was ‘This Old River’ - a tribute to a friend who recently died of cancer. Halfway through the song his eyes filled and his voice cracked and was so full of emotion that it was as though we were voyeurs at a personal introspection. The second was ‘I Respectfully Decline’ a song of pathos together with a yearning voice and a slide guitar accompaniment that shimmered and shook so very slowly that it almost had the audience in tears. Both numbers ended in almost stunned silence before the audience erupted.

As numerous people said on the night ‘This was the work of pure genius’

Leonie. and Bridget.

Rabeca , Elise and Thocco.