Tracer Trails' Christmas Party

A Tracer Trails Christmas Party, featuring two projects from veteran pianist, arranger and universal collaborator BILL WELLS.

Playing alongside Bill at this show will be:
STEFAN SCHNEIDER of To Rococo Rot/Tarwater

GERARD BLACK of Findo Gask/Babe/Francois & The Atlas Mountains
LORNA GILFEDDER of Golden Grrrls
ABY VULLIAMY of Nalle/The One Ensemble
NORMAN BLAKE of Teenage Fanclub
and STEVIE JACKSON of Belle & Sebastian - who will also be opening the show with a solo set.

Hot, festive liquor and fine ales will be made available to you at bargain prices.

It’s going to be a beautiful evening!

And the last Tracer Trails show for quite some time, I think - so it’d be great to see you there.

Tickets £8 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/137301



“The National Jazz Trio of Scotland has never really been a trio. Nor has Bill Wells’ cheekily-monickered combo ever played jazz in the conventional sense. With a first album of original material – the waggishly christened Standards Volume Two – imminent, Wells and his reconvened NJT play DIY promoters Tracer Trails’ Christmas shindig to showcase a more vocal-based direction, courtesy of Golden Grrrls singer Lorna Gilfeather and Findo Gask/François and the Atlas Mountains vocalist Gerard Black.

‘It started off as one thing and became something else,’ Wells says of the NJT’s metamorphosis. ‘There’s never any definite idea of what we’re doing, and it becomes what it becomes.’

With his high-profile collaboration with Aidan Moffat ongoing, the Tracer Trails bill will also feature Pianotapes, Wells’ collaboration with Stefan Schneider of German electronicists To Rococo Rot, and Belle & Sebastian guitarist Stevie Jackson, who Wells may also end up playing with.

Wells’ prolific back-catalogue has long straddled indie and jazz worlds to form a deliciously unclassifiable body of work. A new album, Lemondale, was recorded in Japan with the cream of the country’s underground alongside similarly versatile American émigré Jim O’Rourke. Live, a Celtic Connections show with Bridget St John and Lol Coxhill is pending.

‘I always wish I’d done more,’ says Wells, ‘mainly because I started late, but for me it feels like I’m still catching up. But if you’ve got all these ideas, then you’re going to be releasing more records than most people.’” ~ Neil Cooper, The List