A post about On Our Own

Here's a song I wrote for my first proper album thing. I was going down to Newcastle to record it with a group of musicians my brother knew from University, so I decided I'd quite like a bolsterous opening song. I'd been playing this song solo for a wee while, but then in the first meeting with the band I counted it off "one two three four", 30 minutes later we had this recording of it. If you listen carefully you can hear me shouting out chord changes.

I wrote it about growing up with political parents and being dragged out to marches when under the age of 12. Some have said it's an anthem about independence for Scotland, I think it's more an anti-corruption song - just so happens the corruption I've seen in governments has been one that is part of a union.