Dougie has been at the forefront of innovation in the music world for many years. His latest venture
affair with his son, daughter and wife Jenny.What started out as a way of broadcasting audio from concerts held in the pub he owned in Dunkeld to a worldwide audience has turned into a fully fledged internet television channel.
As success of the Amber festival grew and many concerts sold out, Dougie wanted to let people watch the concerts live and
now broadcasts live from his home studio every month to viewers across the world, including Russia, Japan and America. The channel now boosts more than 100 hours of material.
“It’s like being allowed access to a very small gig. I get a great kick
there in front of a roaring fire, singing with a few friends, there is someone in Russia, Florida or New York watching it. That’s mind boggling! We are beaming this
to, and where my dad learned to write on a piece of slate.”
Dougie also likes the idea that these performances from his home enable him to share his music on a very personal level with the audience.
“I remember singing a song about my father’s scythe and I was able to take it down from the wall and show those watching how to sharpen it. It was just brilliant to be able to illustrate what the song was about. I’ve been able to do that quite a few times, to bring things in that I can show to people, something that’s mentioned. That adds another dimension to the
performance...that’s interesting.”
Dougie is passionate about his environment and the value of being able to relate that to the songs he sings.
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“I like a song that has a lot more substance to it,” said Dougie. “I don’t tend to write songs about cities because I don’t know much about them. I write about what I know and that’s when you get the good stuff.”
Dougie’s father was a gardener on a big estate in Perthshire and by his own admission he came from quite a poor family.
“We lived in a beautiful place but I had to go out and work on the fields from the age of 8, picking potatoes and raspberries, because mum needed the extra wee bit of money” he said.
“That money would help buy school clothes. I learned how to work hard and that’s one of the reasons I’ve survived the touring thing. It’s exhausting and needs a lot of stamina.”
from that kind of wiry rural background and feels it gave him skills he was able to apply to the tough life of touring across the world.
Dougie has been at the forefront of innovation in the music world for many years. His latest venture is Butterstone TV, a family run
daughter and wife Jenny.
“If you had a puncture on the side of a freeway in America you could get out and fix it. It was never a big deal, you were able to do things for
from my rural background. It meant that when
my fiddle, I just took off into the middle of In many ways being brought up in rural Perthshire
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