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Des écossais ordinaires ou pas… L’ami de Gullane et nos textos les jours de match des VI Nations, tradition respectée depuis 1996. Les professeurs d’université qui s’excusaient de leurs accents prononcés auprès des étudiants étrangers et les invitaient au pub pour socialiser après les cours. L’automobiliste, sur l’île d’Arran, qui avait embarqué quatre autostoppeurs trempés et crottés dans sa voiture toute propre. Les gens singuliers croisés à Inverewe, Braemar, Aberdeen ou Portree. La petite frappe de seize ans qui m’a cassé le nez un soir d’hiver pour impressionner ses potes. Les écossais et écossaises d’adoption, qu’ils soient gallois [...]

The Fruit Tree Foundation is a Scottish supergroup led by Rod Jones (Idlewild) and Emma Pollock (Delgados) and featuring James Graham (Twilight Sad), Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit), Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow And The Workshop), Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston. The nine musicians got together to write and record for a few days [...]

I've been listening to The Fruit Tree Foundation's album, First Edition , and with it coming out this week I thought it appropriate to post some video and links. The Fruit Tree Foundation is an independent project in Scotland led by musicians Rod Jones and Emma Pollock in partnership with The Mental Health Foundation, Scottish Wave of Change and Breathing Space Scotland. The recording sessions include Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit), James Graham (Twilight Sad), Rod Jones (Idlewild), Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop), Emma Pollock (The Delgados), Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston. [...]

In early 2010 several of Scotland’s most talented indie-rock and folk musicians came together to collaborate on a project called The Fruit Tree Foundation, and the resulting First Edition will finally be available for purchase on June 28th. The idea for the album arose from the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival with the intention of raising awareness of mental health and challenge perceptions of mental health problems.  The musicians involved are members of such bands as Frightened Rabbit, Twilight Sad, Idlewild, Sparrow and the Workshop, the Delgados, as well as a host of others. [...]

The Fruit Tree Foundation is a Scottish supergroup led by Rod Jones (Idlewild) and Emma Pollock (Delgados) and featuring James Graham (Twilight Sad), Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit), Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow And The Workshop), Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston. The nine musicians got together to write and record for a few days [...]

• Scott Hutchison & Rod Jones - I Forgot The Fall

9 of Scotland’s finest artists have launched a brand new collaborative record as part of 2010’s Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. Featuring: James Graham (Twilight Sad), Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit), Rod Jones (Idlewild), Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop), Emma Pollock (The Delgados), Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston The Fruit Tree Foundation is a new independent project in partnership with The Mental Health Foundation, Scottish Wave of Change and Breathing Space Scotland. The project has grown from the annual Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (1-24 October 2010) [...]

• Scott Hutchison & Rod Jones - I Forgot The Fall

9 of Scotland’s finest artists launch a brand new collaborative record as part of 2010’s Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. The musicians wrote the material over the course of a few days in an isolated Perthshire farmhouse, focusing on issues relating to mental health and wellbeing. The album is now being commercially released by Chemikal Underground Records. Featuring: James Graham Twilight Sad), (Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit), Rod Jones (Idlewild), Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop), Emma Pollock (The Delgados), Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston. [...]