Battlefield Band - Celtic Hotel

(1987) Conway's Farewell * Seacoalers * Return to Kashmagiro * Jock The Can * The Rovin' Dies Hard * Muineira Sul Sacrato Della Chiesa * The Celtic Hotel * The Left-Handed Fiddler * We Work The Black Seam * The Tail O' The Bank * Togail Curs Air Leodhas * Cran Tara.

The music is consistently melodic, rarely cliched and often, as on the title track, hauntingly beautiful. The album sees the whole band growing in stature - Brian McNeill as an instrumental jock-of-all-trades, Alan Reid as a seductive vocalist, while the band as a whole sounds comfortable and adventurous.

"Their most important album so far, firmly establishing them as a powerful contemporary force in Scottish music, without laying waste to their traditional roots." (FOLK ROOTS)

"... the sounds produced by these inventive folk rockers from Scotland is as close to perfection as any album I have heard this year ... they have concocted a winning brew." (DAILY TELEGRAPH)