Sometimes things don't always go to plan.
Last year, I suggested to The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh that it might be interesting to make a series of films about the extraordinarily varied and eclectic range of performers that grace their stage. The series would be called 'Warm-Ups.'
The rules were very simple: we wouldn't shoot the gig; it would only be the get-in, or the journey to the hall and it would be that special 'back stage' intimate portrait that we generally don't see.
They loved the idea, but then the marketing director left and the idea died.
This was the first film, that I shot and Sabine Klaus edited, with the very wonderful Karine Polwart.
What made it extra special for me was that only three weeks earlier, I'd heard her singing for the first time, at the wedding of her brother Steven (the guitarist in this film).
It was a Burns song called The Lea Rig, and she did it accapella with her mum.
Not a dry eye in the house.
