Stornoway

Stornoway lit up 2010 with their thrilling debut Beachcomber’s Windowsill, the culmination of a five-year journey with its starting point in a Freshers Week meeting at Oxford University. Hailed from the rooftops for its melodic magnificence and imaginative arrangements, the album reached the UK Top-15, which achieved Gold status, leading to world tours, festival appearances, and a sold-out show at London’s Somerset House. Stornoway songs are uplifting, heartfelt, dashingly melodic, but the songs are just the start. This is a band that runs on curiosity. Producing their own records, they take a bespoke approach to each track. With a wonderfully diverse range of instrumentation and an unmistakable joy in the creative process, every one of their songs is given a very beautiful and carefully considered place to live – musically and geographically, with recording locations including campervans, wind-buffeted barns, chapels and community centres.