Being the middle son of “Arguably the world’s greatest Gaelic singer” music was never a foreign entity in the Macaskill household. Four kids singing in the back of the car on driving holidays. At seven years old the sentimentality of the carpenters and the energy of bill Haley and his comets captured Willies’ attention like nothing before it. At eleven it was the energy and emotional depth of Jimi Hendrix.
Within four years he had a guitar and a band playing in Forres academy. At 18 in Aberdeen he discovered Neil Young and fell in love with a girl.
At 24 he was a student in Glasgow and dumped. That's when the songs started coming.
Heartbreak has its own rewards. He kept them to himself for a few years, too shy to share, but once in Inverness they found their way out to appreciative audiences and things happened pretty fast after that.