Sep 15, 2026 · 27 min · 9 segments
**Stornoway** make the kind of indie music that refuses to sit still: folk one minute, orchestral, wild and wonderfully odd the next. After splitting, regrouping and finding their way back to each…
Brian BriggsGuestChrisHost
Oli SteadmanGuestGreat.
Great.
I mean, there's lots of topics, that's for sure.
[laughs] There's no lack of, you know, we're living in the most crazy timeline.
I, I keep saying to people like [laughs] we'll be telling our grandkids' grandkids about some of the things-
... that happened in, in this-
... period of time.

And that, and it's, uh, it's kind of happening all over the world, right? So in the UK we've got our various ways in which just the discourse is disconnected and people are fragmented and, and not, not talking to each other.

But we also know that the, everywhere around the world, like, there's an opportunity to go and help other societies, um, connect better.

Yeah
Yeah, that's amazing.
I love that idea too of community and, and you know, music within community and building and inspiring that way.
It's really pretty special.
Great.
Great.
I mean, there's lots of topics, that's for sure.
[laughs] There's no lack of, you know, we're living in the most crazy timeline.
I, I keep saying to people like [laughs] we'll be telling our grandkids' grandkids about some of the things-
... that happened in, in this-
... period of time.

And that, and it's, uh, it's kind of happening all over the world, right? So in the UK we've got our various ways in which just the discourse is disconnected and people are fragmented and, and not, not talking to each other.

But we also know that the, everywhere around the world, like, there's an opportunity to go and help other societies, um, connect better.

Yeah
Yeah, that's amazing.
I love that idea too of community and, and you know, music within community and building and inspiring that way.
It's really pretty special.
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