Vic Galloway’s book launch was at Rough Trade East on Wednesday 7th August. The book is called 'Songs in the Key of Fife' and is the story of the amazing music emanating from
The evening got off to a very generous start when Vic invited everyone to share some bottles of Aberfeldy Single Malt. This generosity continued throughout the evening with the result that my fellow Rock Clubber Matt later declared “it was the best gig ever at Rough Trade”, before stumbling home with a grin on his face.
Vic read out some crazy stories about Gordon Anderson and The Beta Band before introducing Johnny Lynch (The Pictish Trail) who treated us to some of his songs.
A very interesting interview with Johnny followed and we heard about his musical heritage and his partnership with Kenny Anderson (King Creosote) in the running of that collective of musicians known as the Fence Collective. Sadly it appears that partnership is over and the future of the Fence Collective is now in doubt. So watch this space …….
Vic is a charismatic, engaging personality and the queue that formed at the end clutching their newly purchased copies of 'Songs in the Key of Fife' for his signature was testament to a successful evening.
We are all off to the Green Man Festival on Thursday and are looking forward to hearing Johnny perform there again with many other performances from the existing Fence Collective who will be there in force..
Ken
