Just a few short years ago, Callum Beattie remembers playing multiple gigs where he would only sell 30 tickets in advance. But those days are long behind him as his mammoth 14,500-capacity headline gig at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro is now just a week away – and is very close to selling out. Callum marks the occasion in style by sharing a new single – set in the city, ‘Always Rains In Glasgow’. It is the closing song on his new album ‘INDI’ which follows on January 23rd. Listen HERE.
‘Always Rains In Glasgow’ is a beautiful piano ballad which reflects Callum’s admiration for Leonard Cohen. It’s a song that best represents the raw honesty that Callum explores throughout the ‘INDI’ album. It was written shortly after Callum moved to Glasgow, and summarises how he struggled with being away from a long-term relationship. While it evokes specific images of the area – Buchanan Street, Kelvingrove Park, street-drinking teenagers – its pained separation will speak to anyone struggling with a long-distance romance.
Callum says, “Well, it DOES rain, and rain A LOT in Glasgow. The song itself is about missing someone so much that it’s painful. It’s a true love song about being with the person you are destined to be with.”
While Callum Beattie has enjoyed prior success with two #1s on the Scottish Album Charts, ‘INDI’ is shaping up to be his biggest moment to date. It is both his first fully independent album, and also the first record in which he plunges into the depths of his soul to reveal his real voice. Its lead single, ‘Two Pretenders’, was launched with an ambitious narrative video and landed on Radio 2’s playlist as well as being named as Virgin Radio’s Track of the Week. The massive OVO Hydro show is no one-off either – he recently announced details of a similarly huge summer show at Edinburgh Castle.
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