Euan lowson biography

Explore Euan Lowson's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews.
Euan Lowson ; Born.
Artist information.

•

“Basically I’d been set up. I woke up the following morning and wondered, ‘Did I just rejoin?’” How Pallas repaired the angry split with Alan Reed to deliver their eighth album in 48 years

Its mood consistently dark and ominous, Pallas’s latest album, The Messenger, contains songs about climate change, disinformation and the reigniting of the Cold War. It’s only the band’s eighth album in 58 years – but they’re certain it was worth the wait and turmoil.

There’s sluggish, there’s long-winded, there’s slow, there’s languid and unhurried. Then there’s the speed at which Pallas seem to operate, which can best be described as glacial. Prog’s correspondent has just taken his life into his hands by voicing this theory to the veteran Scottish neo-proggers. Fortunately, they erupt with laughter before addressing the truth behind our statement.

“We take a long time to do anything,” says a smiling Ronnie Brown, “and then quite often we’ll go back and do them a

•

The story of Pallas' major label debut The Sentinel

Pallas’ debut album should have been the launch pad for a career to rival the success subsequently enjoyed by Marillion. But behind The Sentinel lies a convoluted tale of high expectations dashed by ill fortune and a fabled producer whose eye came off the ball.

While The Sentinel was Pallas’ first studio effort, their first release was Arrive Alive, a 1981 live album. Arrive Alive and some energetic live shows, most notably at London’s iconic Marquee Club, brought the band to EMI’s attention. “We were going to London a lot, gaining a solid following and good press reviews,” recalls bassist Graeme Murray of the band’s exhilarating early southern forays.

Having been signed by EMI, Pallas started work on what would become The Sentinel, renting a farmhouse in north east Scotland. “We just shut ourselves in there,” Murray continues. “We wrote a couple of atmospheric, late night compositions and I remember that we had the opening sequence of Rise And Fall with i

•

In the Spotlight

Found in 1314AD in a discarded sporran at Bannockburn. So even at that early age Mr Lowson showed a keen initiative to be close to money and alcohol, albeit secondhand. His first recorded job was that of a fermentation vat for Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, unfortunately this position soon went to his head and he was soon discharged admist scandalous rumours involving a brewers drey.

His main hobby at that time was impersonation, and his personal favourites in his repertoire were "The Trade Winds" and "Victoria Falls". These were only once performed in public and resulted in a long spell of incarceration with an agave worm at Jose Cuervos request.

This is only one of many such myths surrounding this man (?) of mystery. The ones pertaining to his virgin birth etc shall not even be entered into here. Of these tales the most likely, or the least depending on your own tastes, is that he was born in Elderslie.
He was then deported to Dumbarton, across the "water" where he became a fanatic Dumbarton F.C. supporter("Dumbarton Dumbarton we are the champions,