Craig and Charlie nipped down to London to spend a great couple of hours in the company of the wonderful David Tennant. David has interviewed them as part of a forthcoming BBC TV Scotland documentary celebrating 30 years since the release of The Proclaimers debut album, This Is The Story.
Craig and Charlie have written consistently wonderful words and music across their career to date. These songs are timeless, the lyrics capturing a gamut of human emotions, written with poignancy, honesty and humour.
Their songs feature at weddings, funerals and everything in-between and there is one song, an early celebration of falling head over heels in love that is known the world over and has become a staggering global anthem. There are many others that have gained great popularity in different parts of the planet and then there is a wide cross section of sublime songs embraced by a multitude who has kept up with The Proclaimers ten studio albums and compilation collections released between 1987 and 2015.
For anyone starting a fresh or re-familiarising themselves with The Proclaimers music, I would recommend starting with the Very Best Of compilation and also this collection. I’ve left out the 30 songs that feature on The Very Best Of and could have combined any collection of songs for this playlist. This 20 will do just fine though as a representation of the depth of the Reid brothers music.
Kenny MacDonald
Braw Music Mgt
A very happy new year to one and all. After touring around the world extensively in 2015 and 2016, 2017 will be all quiet on The Proclaimers front as Craig and Charlie spend the year writing new songs for their next studio album. Slainte!
Proclaimers 2015 Tour items including signed Lyrics book
That’s the last concert of what has been a mammoth 150 date tour. We began in Kelso in May 2015 and finished in San Diego on Sunday. 67 UK & Ireland shows last year, followed by heading back out on the road in April this year with 83 shows to follow in Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai, Qatar, UK, Belgium, Canada and USA. A huge thanks from Craig, Charlie, Stevie Christie (keyboards), Garry John Kane (bass), Zac Ware (guitars) and Clive Jenner (drums) to each and everyone who made it along to one of the gigs, we thank you all for making the shows so special.
Craig and Charlie will now spend 2017 working on writing new songs for their next album recording.
