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Stanley Odd Win Nordoff-Robbins Big Apple Award

• 21st Dec 2012

Edinburgh-based alternative hip-hop band Stanley Odd have won the prestigious Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in Scotland Big Apple Award following a live showcase at the Garage 2 in Glasgow. Winning The Big Apple Award will see Stanley Odd perform at the Bowery Ballroom alongside The View in New York City on April 7th, 2013 as part of Scotland Week.

The band were selected by an industry panel including Ally McCrae from BBC Radio One, Brendan Moon from Morsecode Management, Yvonne McLellan of Island Records, Jeff Skellon from Fireband Live Ltd and Caroline Parkinson, Creative Scotland’s director of Creative Development.

The Big Apple Award is a collaborative partnership between renowned charity Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in Scotland and Creative Scotland.

Stanley Odd frontman, Solareye commented: ‘being selected for the Big Apple Award and representing Scotland during Tartan Week is an amazing opportunity and getting to play at such a classic venue as the Bowery Ballroom in New York, the home of hip-hop, is just unbelievable’

Donald McLeod, Chairman of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in Scotland added: ‘This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that every emerging or breakthrough Scottish band dreams of. Stanley Odd will be following in the footsteps of bands like Biffy Clyro and Franz Ferdinand to launch Stateside by playing to New York audiences.’

The View’s manager Brendan Moon said: “It’s a fantastic opportunity for Stanley Odd and I think they are going to run with this chance and make a big impression in New York.”

Stanley Odd are releasing their next single, ‘Carry Me Home’ on January 21, the third single to be taken from the band’s recently released and critically acclaimed ‘Reject’ album, featuring the talents of The Cairn String Quartet, the women behind The Electric Strong Orchestra. ‘Carry Me Home’ is a paean to all of the difficulties many of us might feel this time of year and with all the usual self-deprecatory humour and smart-as-a-whip rhymes you’d expect from Stanley Odd.

The band are also playing a very special headline show at Celtic Connections, with The Electric String Orchestra, on 23 January at the Old Fruit Market. Tickets (£12) available from :
https://etickets.celticconnections.com/WEBPAGES/EntaWebEvent/EventSeatBlock.aspx