Biography
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Born
November 1978 (age 45)
Findlay Napier (born November 1978 in Glasgow) is a Scottish singer songwriter and teaching artist. He was a member of traditional Scottish folk band Back of the Moon. His subsequent projects were Queen Anne's Revenge and Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers.
Napier is a highly-regarded performer on the Scottish music scene. He made his name touring and recording with multi-award winning traditional Scottish folk band Back of the Moon. In his subsequent projects projects, Queen Anne’s Revenge and Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers, his song-writing took centre stage and was described by The Sunday Herald as “Genuine songcraft and wit following in the Difford & Tilbrook tradition”. Findlay is also well known for hosting Glasgow’s premier open mic night at Bar Bloc, as the host of Celtic Connections’ Late Night Sessions and for his Hazy Recollections concert series which showcases the very best in new roots music.
The VIP: Very Interesting Persons project came together when Findlay began a Creative Scotland’s Advanced Mentoring project with Boo Hewerdine. This album contains ten songs about real life characters that have led very interesting lives. The album was co-written and produced by Boo Hewerdine and features performances from Admiral Fallow’s Louis Abbott, Gillian Frame, Roy Dodds, Hamish Napier and incredible Danish multi instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren.
The first song they wrote together is the oft covered After the Last Bell Rings. It quickly became obvious that the pair worked well together and they decided a themed album was the way forward.
Heddy Lamaar, a song about the actress who invented Bluetooth and WiFi, was the second piece that came from the creative pairing - and inspired the tone that would follow to bring VIP: Very Interesting Persons about. Other interesting individuals include Valentina the first woman in space; the master conman who sold the Brooklyn Bridge at least once a week for thirty years; the ghost of a pugilist; the stunt pilot who discovered Angel Falls, and the Japanese soldier who fought the Second World War well into the 1970s.
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