Going the distance - Sacred Paws (re)united

Around 400 miles separate Glasgow and London – surely too far apart for a band to exist, never mind record an award-winning album. Yet, Glasgow-based duo Sacred Paws somehow made ‘Strike A Match’ – Scottish Album of the Year in 2017 – despite Rachel Aggs being based in the English capital.

Now, however, things are more straightforward with the guitarist’s move north to join percussionist Eilidh Rodgers. “ We’re neighbours, which is nice, smiles Aggs, “we can hang out in her kitchen.”

The duo have just released the follow-up to that landmark long-player, ‘Run Around The Sun’ being conceived over the space of two years with recording being done in Glasgow. “It was nice to go to a studio and come home not sleep on someone’s sofa,” Aggs says.

However, that busy travel schedule has been replaced with pressures of a different kind, following their debut’s success.

“The first album was just the songs we’d been playing together for years,” Aggs reveals.

“With this album there was more of a time pressure to write it so it was certainly easier being together – otherwise it’d have taken us years, just like the first one!”