OK, so we missed it but at least we were doing something productive.

I don't know about you but I've often considered the ill-fate of bandstands. A public concert venue in a park? Brilliant idea. So when we were asked to play at the bandstand in St. Andrews, it wasn't difficult to agree to.

We're playing this Sunday afternoon as part of the On the Rocks festival, along with Amy Rayner, Kyle Cuthbert, Sarah Banjo and Julia and the Dragoons. It kicks off at 3pm. If you're a Fifer, come on over, it should be fun.

Recording an album outdoors in Scotland has its ups and downs. An unusually long and cold winter has made it pretty difficult to get out into the 'studio' and it has taken unexpected trips to Uganda and Australia to provide any real opportunity to record new material.

But this weekend, everything changed. Sun, shorts, sunglasses, two excellent singers, a ruined Abbey and inspiration from Steve Reich - all combined to produce a very fruitful recording for a new song we're working on.

My friend Alastair MacGregor puts his hand to various instruments and along with Greg Bell, has been helping to write the arrangements for the album we're working on. He's in Australia at the moment so took the opportunity to record some bass lines at this spot overlooking Sydney opera house. It adds another dot on the map of places we've been recording, which you can check out here.