Photo by Ross Wood.
Burnt Island is based around the songs of Rodge Glass (vocals, acoustic guitar).
The band has evolved several times since forming in 2007, with various friends coming and going along the way. The now-stable line-up includes Rodge’s longest serving collaborator, Malcolm Jack (electric guitar, bass, vocals), Rik Evans (viola), Amber Comerford (flute, vocals) and Andrew Campbell (bass, keys, vocals). That is, provided they’re not playing with other bands, studying for Masters degrees, making television programmes in the Hebrides or performing with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on that particular day.
The band have been on Vic Galloway’s ‘Unsigned Heroes’ on his BBC Radio Scotland show, and played at both the Triptych and Connect Festivals, as well as supported the likes of A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Hjaltalin, Sleeping States and The Phenomenal Handclap Band in 2009.
Rodge, also a novelist and biographer, contributed to the Ballads of the Book album. Released in 2007 by Chemikal Underground Records, the album featured collaborations between authors and musicians. Rodge co-wrote and performed the track ‘The Fire’ together with highly influential folk legend Vashti Bunyan.
Band links
- Burnt Island on MySpace
- Burnt Island on Facebook
- Burnt Island on Last.fm – listen to 2 tracks for free
