For band Silver Coast there's the chance to return to the live stage in Inverness
Register for free to read more of the latest local news. It's easy and will only take a moment.
It’s been a while since an audience has seen Silver Coast on an Inverness stage – but they are back on December 10 at the Tooth & Claw, looking a little bit different.
Singer Aaron Murray is trying to fill in the gap between now and their last live gigs together.
With a new album, When The World Starts Falling, which came out in September, it’s a great moment to share the songs from that with a live audience.
“We’ve had a good response to the album and we’ve had a lot of streams on various platforms as well, so that’s what we wanted.
“At some point down the road we might get a limited run of CDs.
“We spent a long time trying to make this album,” Aaron said. “We made two recordings of the full album, but we still weren’t happy so we started from scratch again. We wanted to put something out that we thought was really good, but we weren’t 100 per cent happy with it, so there was no point putting something out half-hearted.”
The album they ended up with on the third go, is the one they released in September.
“It is more or less the same songs, but we went through a different process where we were recording and we were just doing it ourselves.
“It was a big learning curve,” Aaron says. “But obviously we weren’t happy with how the songs turned out sonically before.
“So we just started again.
“And we got management and they helped us out a wee bit with the mastering process. The third attempt went a lot better than the first two!”
Since Covid and up until now with that gig coming up on the 10th, I think our last show was November 2019, the support show we did for Feeder at Barrowlands, the night after we had done that in Inverness. It was really good, I’ve got a good relationship with the band’s frontman now and we keep in contact.”
So why return to playing live now?
“To be honest we wanted to do a comeback show – we haven’t been around for, I think it’s about three years! And we wanted to tie that into our 10-year anniversary of being a band. We had talked about putting on our own show. But Chris Lemon from InvernessGigs was talking about putting on a show – so we went with that rather than doing our own thing.
“We’re really looking forward to being on the live scene again,” Aaron said. “We’ve put in the hours in the rehearsal room. The set is likely to showcase new stuff and take a look back at our Seasons EP.”
He explained: “Our music still has the original Silver Coast vibe to it. We took on our bass-player Aly – he was the frontman for All So Simple – and our other guitarist Kyle Mackenzie, and they have brought a lot to the table. Aly has come from a pop-punk background and has brought his own style which has has merged into our original sound – now pop-punk slash alternative-rock.”
Silver Coast, Be Like Pablo and Hannah Finlayson play the Tooth & Claw Inverness, on Saturday, December 10.
