About

Arran Arctic (a.k.a. Arran Southall) is a D.I.Y. singer songwriter, musician and artist who has been independently producing and releasing music for almost a decade. When he’s not recording in his home studio, he’s doodling, knitting and generally being creative in any way possible!

Arctic’s musical canon weaves elements together from the folk, pop and electronica genres, featuring a variety of individually layered instruments. Drawing inspiration from artists such as PJ Harvey, King Creosote and Patrick Wolf, every Arran Arctic release endeavours to offer something fresh.

Arran’s music has been described as “thought-provoking”, “engaging” and “spellbinding” by sources as varied as Glasgow’s Daily Record, Song, By Toad and Jim Gellatly.

In equal measures intimate, eerie and touching, follow Arran Arctic wherever the creative Northern winds may take him!

Press

“Quite possibly Northern Ireland’s best kept musical secret”
- Alternative Ulster

“Pretty spellbinding”
- Jim gellatly, Jim gellatly’s New Music Podcast

“One of the most interesting and experimental musicians in Scotland today”
- Alistair Braidwood, Scots Whay Hae!

“His work is too impressive to simply be put on a shelf between other acts”
- Sam Bradley, Dauphin

“Combining multiple genres successfully is no easy feat and rarely done with such apparent ease”
- Ross Barber, Is This Music?

“His songs are both uniquely personal and touching… a prolific and talented songwriter”
- Owain Paciousko, God Is In The TV

“This really is lovely stuff!”
- David, Kowalskiy

Reviews, Blogs, Podcasts & Radio

Arran Arctic has been lucky enough to be featured in the following magazines, webzines, podcasts, blogs and radio shows…

Is This Music?	Jim Gellatly’s New Music Podcast
Peenko	Kowalskiy
Knox Road	Terrascope
17 Seconds	Three From Leith Podcast
Laughing Evergreens	Mapping & Dissecting Space
Extreme Listening Mode	The Devil Has The Best Tuna
The Listening Room	Play Me A Song
New Music Collaborative	Song By Toad
Jockrock	Scottish Fiction
17 Seconds	Scotsman – Under The Radar
Alternative Ulster	Dauphin
Glasgow PodcART	Das Klienicum
What’s Protocol?	Aye Tunes
Idiosyncratic Transmissions	The Voodoo Rooms
Radio Orphans Podcast	Scots Whay Hae!
Edinburgh Man Podcast	Geek Pop
BBC 6 Music – Fresh On The Net With Tom Robinson	BBC Radio Ulster – Across The Line
Diversity FM – MUSICBOX™	Leith FM
Wythenshawe FM – The Country Folk	Folk Radio UK
God Is In The TV	The Discovery Channel
Kooba Radio – & Myles Show	Subcity Radio – Does Not Affect Play
BBC Radio 1 – Introducing… In Scotland With Vic Galloway	BBC 6 Music – Gideon Coe
Resonance FM – Pull The Plug	Flomotion Radio – Nick Luscombe

And special mention must be made of:

* Kowalskiy, who has been ridiculously supportive of Arran’s musical output since 2008. Kowalskiy always finds new and interesting ways to blog about music, often allowing Arran the coveted role of “guinea pig”!

* Scots Whay Hae!, who have championed Arran’s music tirelessly over the last couple of years. They even mentioned Arran’s track ‘Interrupt Me’, from In My Hands, as one of the top tracks of 2011, and the track ‘Covers’ from Like Lovers as one of the top tracks of 2012!

* Jock Rock, who consistently report on Arran’s musical output and named Arran’s 5th LP In My Hands as the 6th best Scottish album of 2011, and 6th LP Like Lovers as the 17th best Scottish album of 2012!

* Dauphin, who write the most beautifully worded articles on excellent music and were kind enough to name Arran’s 6th LP Like Lovers one of their top records of 2012!

I would strongly recommend checking out the above websites as their content is always outstanding.