Overton & McCann
@overtonmccann.bsky.social
We're Gareth and Lorraine and we make music with harmonies, guitar, uke, piano and trumpet. New single 'Song of Dawn' coming soon. Debut EP on Spotify and at https://overtonmccann.bandcamp.com/album/overton-mccann
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Just watched #indigogirls doc and so should you. For less than a fiver you get amazing archive footage, both musical and activist, and Amy and Emily's smart, funny and wise takes on all the phases of their lives and career. Brilliant! 💜 veeps.com/oscilloscope...
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All - VEEPS
With forty years of making music as the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have made their mark as musicians, songwriters, and dedicated activists. They have represented rad...
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July 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just watched #indigogirls doc and so should you. For less than a fiver you get amazing archive footage, both musical and activist, and Amy and Emily's smart, funny and wise takes on all the phases of their lives and career. Brilliant! 💜 veeps.com/oscilloscope...
We got along to Out of the Bedroom for 1st time this year. It's Edinburgh's longest-running open mic night where you can't play covers, only originals. It was quiet, just half a dozen or so acts, but here's to songs dreamed up by humans and sung by humans to other humans 👫
May 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
We got along to Out of the Bedroom for 1st time this year. It's Edinburgh's longest-running open mic night where you can't play covers, only originals. It was quiet, just half a dozen or so acts, but here's to songs dreamed up by humans and sung by humans to other humans 👫
"It's All Happening Tonight" is a beautiful new song by Gareth - and it was def true on Tuesday when we rehearsed and Lorraine played a bit of lead! 😮🎸
May 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"It's All Happening Tonight" is a beautiful new song by Gareth - and it was def true on Tuesday when we rehearsed and Lorraine played a bit of lead! 😮🎸
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This Friday, May 2nd, is Bandcamp Friday. From midnight to midnight PST, we'll once again waive our revenue share, ensuring more money goes directly to artists. Mark your calendars and get those wishlists ready!
April 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This Friday, May 2nd, is Bandcamp Friday. From midnight to midnight PST, we'll once again waive our revenue share, ensuring more money goes directly to artists. Mark your calendars and get those wishlists ready!
wee preview of our next single. It's in the later stages of mixing and we have 21st June pencilled in for release.😀
April 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
wee preview of our next single. It's in the later stages of mixing and we have 21st June pencilled in for release.😀
Hope you're enjoying Record Store Day. 💙 Lorraine was in Dundee the other day and can fully recommend Le Freak Records on Perth Road and Thirteen Records on Union Street btw
April 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hope you're enjoying Record Store Day. 💙 Lorraine was in Dundee the other day and can fully recommend Le Freak Records on Perth Road and Thirteen Records on Union Street btw
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The Future of Music Is Offline
Spotify and AI are replacing our living music with a dead one
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March 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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We were very pleased to be guests of our good pal Mark McCreadie again on his new Emerging Music show on Black Diamond FM last week. We shared some influences and played four songs live in the studio. Listen again link 👇
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Mark’s New Emerging Music
Thu 27 Feb
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March 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We were very pleased to be guests of our good pal Mark McCreadie again on his new Emerging Music show on Black Diamond FM last week. We shared some influences and played four songs live in the studio. Listen again link 👇
player.autopod.xyz/830644
player.autopod.xyz/830644
Recording update... So we've got two versions of the single 'Song of Dawn' in the pipeline - one that uses a bit of Tusk by Fleetwood Mac and one that doesn't. Am talking to Lindsey's publisher so fingers crossed they say yes, and that we can afford it 🤞 Gareth's trumpet sounds BRILLIANT on it.
February 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Recording update... So we've got two versions of the single 'Song of Dawn' in the pipeline - one that uses a bit of Tusk by Fleetwood Mac and one that doesn't. Am talking to Lindsey's publisher so fingers crossed they say yes, and that we can afford it 🤞 Gareth's trumpet sounds BRILLIANT on it.
What a night this was. The singing was exceptional, the songs and arrangements gorgeous. I'd never heard #JulieFowlis live and, wow, she has a voice for the ages. And #IndigoGirls - what can I say except haste ye back ❤️
Indigo Girls singing 'Closer to Fine' was beautiful last night. 'Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable / And lightness has a call that's hard to hear'... Amazing lineup of women! Amy & Emily, Cathy Jordan, Julie Fowlis, Eddi Reader and Moya Brennan... 💚 #indigogirls
February 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
What a night this was. The singing was exceptional, the songs and arrangements gorgeous. I'd never heard #JulieFowlis live and, wow, she has a voice for the ages. And #IndigoGirls - what can I say except haste ye back ❤️
Frida's harmony is so perfect. Just gorgeous.
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ABBA - Chiquitita (Isolated Vocals)
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January 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Frida's harmony is so perfect. Just gorgeous.
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Bluesky, can you help us with something? Our guitarist Lorraine used to be on Twitter and was a longtime follower of the late, great Dawn Foster. They shared a love of Fleetwood Mac and talked about the Oxford comma, among other things. Anyway, Lorraine has written a song about Dawn...
January 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Bluesky, can you help us with something? Our guitarist Lorraine used to be on Twitter and was a longtime follower of the late, great Dawn Foster. They shared a love of Fleetwood Mac and talked about the Oxford comma, among other things. Anyway, Lorraine has written a song about Dawn...
In honour of #peteryarrow we did a quick blast of That's What You Get For Loving Me the other night. It was written by Gordon Lightfoot but a big hit for Peter, Paul & Mary in 1964. Also one of the first songs we learned to sing together. ✌️
January 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
In honour of #peteryarrow we did a quick blast of That's What You Get For Loving Me the other night. It was written by Gordon Lightfoot but a big hit for Peter, Paul & Mary in 1964. Also one of the first songs we learned to sing together. ✌️
Did some recording tonight. My wee GS Mini sounded amazing through an AKG414 😘
December 17, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Did some recording tonight. My wee GS Mini sounded amazing through an AKG414 😘
PRS royalties day
December 13, 2024 at 8:51 AM
PRS royalties day
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It's nearly Christmas. You want some good festive folk. I wrote about some of my favourites for @theguardian.com (not shared last week because of the strike). Add yours below.
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Welsh carols, Derbyshire ballads and Cajun drinking songs: the best folk music for Christmas and winter
As the Unthanks release a new collection of wintry folk, we pick out other seasonal albums full of variously warm, sparkling and sharp songcraft
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December 9, 2024 at 3:18 PM
It's nearly Christmas. You want some good festive folk. I wrote about some of my favourites for @theguardian.com (not shared last week because of the strike). Add yours below.
www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...
It's like: imagine 'Baby Driver' as a Christmas song. With a bit of TwoTone brass. And a really, really tiny bit of Brian Wilson. Our song about the real meaning of Christmas...
📺 watching Columbo
🤮 dodging mince pies
Full version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQ3...
📺 watching Columbo
🤮 dodging mince pies
Full version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQ3...
I WISH IT WAS JUNE - Overton & McCann (Official Video)
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December 4, 2024 at 9:41 AM
It's like: imagine 'Baby Driver' as a Christmas song. With a bit of TwoTone brass. And a really, really tiny bit of Brian Wilson. Our song about the real meaning of Christmas...
📺 watching Columbo
🤮 dodging mince pies
Full version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQ3...
📺 watching Columbo
🤮 dodging mince pies
Full version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQ3...
*clears throat* Just to say we're releasing our (non-)Christmas song later today. No fanfare, but actually LOADS of 🎺
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December 4, 2024 at 8:24 AM
*clears throat* Just to say we're releasing our (non-)Christmas song later today. No fanfare, but actually LOADS of 🎺
We're also working on a *whisper it* christmas song. BUT it's kind of anti... AND we're going full Brian Wilson on the harmonies - both vocal and trumpet - bc nothing says xmas more than a bit of miserable maximalism. Coming soon.
November 26, 2024 at 11:32 PM
We're also working on a *whisper it* christmas song. BUT it's kind of anti... AND we're going full Brian Wilson on the harmonies - both vocal and trumpet - bc nothing says xmas more than a bit of miserable maximalism. Coming soon.
We did an interview in the November edition of A B Records e-zine. Sorry about the screencaps but it's probably the best way to share it. Have a good week!
November 26, 2024 at 11:29 PM
We did an interview in the November edition of A B Records e-zine. Sorry about the screencaps but it's probably the best way to share it. Have a good week!
Hello, bluesky and folkies everywhere... We're happy to be here and to support anyone who's making their own music. We're based in Edinburgh, always working away on new songs and... yeah, come say hello! 💛
November 13, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Hello, bluesky and folkies everywhere... We're happy to be here and to support anyone who's making their own music. We're based in Edinburgh, always working away on new songs and... yeah, come say hello! 💛