True North: Arab Strap

Aberdeen Performing Arts presents True North - Aberdeen's music festival - taking place between Thursday 7 - Sunday 10 September in venues across Aberdeen.

Describing Arab Strap’s music now almost seems like a pointless exercise: everyone’s familiar with their brand of storytelling and the singular musical vision that backed it up, but that’s exactly the point: Arab Strap blazed a trail for the kind of honest, colloquial songwriting that has become so common nowadays.

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