Former Delgados member. Signed to 4AD Records as a solo artist in June 2005 after having major panic attack about what to do after band split. It was either that or bugger off out of the music industry altogether & go & find work that I would probably walk out of within a month. Considered putting out an album on Chemikal Underground for about 5mins & then figured out that asking my freshly ex-band mates to put out my solo record may be a little odd for us all so I then went to look elsewhere & as Delgados had a history with the Beggars Group of labels (Mantra put out our albums outside the UK) I ended up with a deal with 4AD which i'm delighted about as I've been a fan of the label since I left school. I wrote much of the first solo album in '05 immediately following the band's split & by March 2006, myself, Paul Savage, Paul's brother Jamie, & Campbell McNeil (Aereogramme) were all ready to go into our newly built studio Chem19 in Blantyre, outside Glasgow to record the album. We had Victor VanVugt producing, & the weeks that followed were some of the most fun & stressful I've every known. I ended up spending weeks on guitars after Victor had left & by July was ready to go over for final mixing in NY for a week. That was great fun & one of the few times I've had time to just walk around in the city without being stressed out about playing a gig in a few hours. To cut a long story short, the album is almost there, but not quite. Still a couple of mixes to iron out but I'm really pleased with how it's sounding now & almost don't want it to come out. Everything's been really positive so far & it always feels so risky putting something out there that means so much to you after so much work. Debut solo album due out April 2007.