Stornoway
Crafting lush acoustic melodies with world weary storytelling, Stornoway were
part of the late-2000s revival in indie folk bands that included Noah and the
Whale and Mumford and Sons. Taking their name from a Scottish seaport town in
the Outer Hebrides because they liked its evocation of winsome coastal
remoteness, Stornoway were formed by singer Brian Briggs, multi-instrumentalist
Jonathan Ouin and South African brothers Oli (bass) and Rob Steadman (drums)
formed while they were all studying at Oxford University in 2005. They first
came to notice when local BBC radio DJ Tim Bear...
