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Midnight Ambulance are a two-piece alternative rock band from Scotland. Amelia and Fraser met briefly on the Edinburgh music scene nine years ago, when performing with their respective bands. After losing contact, they reconnected at the start of 2020 and discussed the idea of collaborating.
Fraser has worked in music for the last ten years — in various bands, as a session/function musician, teacher and songwriter. For the last four years, he has worked as a tour manager and backline technician for international artists such as Fatherson (inc. Lewis Capaldi’s EU tour), Idlewild and Skegss. As the pandemic brought the music industry to a standstill, he decided to return to writing and playing his own music, and built a writing studio at his rural, seaside Scottish home.
Amelia has been songwriting since age 10. She has worked around the world (including Chile, Mexico and France), writing songs and poetry wherever she went. During the pandemic, Amelia was based in Paris, working for an international creative agency. Confined to her flat, she too made her own creative space, with a travel guitar, microphone and electronic drum kit and some home-made soundproofing.
This need to be creative led Fraser and Amelia to start collaborating during lockdown. Writing together offered a creative focus which developed into a supportive space and cathartic outlet. They quickly developed a strong musical partnership, writing 70+ songs via video call by July 2020. On Amelia’s return to Scotland, after eight months of writing together, they finally had the opportunity to jam live and decided to form Midnight Ambulance.
The sound
Midnight Ambulance is a fusion of Amelia and Fraser’s different but complementary styles, favouring unconventional rhythms, bold guitar and raw vocals. Both from rural Scottish towns, they take inspiration from their environment, a shared love of nature and the unruly Scottish wilderness. From jazz and electronic music, hip-hop and low-fi surf-rock, Fraser has toured with artists that have influenced his writing, such as Fatherson, Lewis Capaldi, Idlewild, Skegss and Ruby Fields. He takes inspiration from their lyrics’ authenticity and earthy, expressive guitar playing. Amelia finds inspiration in poetry; in particular, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral’s use of metaphor to depict acute personal experience. Amelia explores this relationship between the universal and the personal in her writing. Time working in Chile and her love of Scottish traditional music influenced her playing, favouring unusual rhythmic placements.
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