You can now buy the Royal Oak CD from any high street music shop. Launched in 2008, the CD has been a great success and has had fabulous reviews.

A CULT Edinburgh music pub is

To feature on a new CD.

A “best of” album has been

Made for The Royal Oak, a

Popular Venue for the city’s

folk music Lovers.

It was produced by music

Graduate Calum Wood, 22, who

Fell in love with the Infirmary

Street pub as a student at Napier

University.

He has since set up his own

Label, Magic Park Records, and

Persuaded crime writer Ian

Rankin to write the sleeve notes

For The Royal Oak: Best of Folk

CD, which was recorded live at the

Pub.

He said: “It was more difficult

Trying to find Ian Rankin than it

was getting him on board.

“I spent weeks sending e-mails

To his publishers and I eventually contacted him. I was a bit bold with him and asked him if he

Would write a Rebus story on the sleeve cover, but he wasn’t too

Happy about that.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXTRACT

Taken from Ian Rankin’s sleeve notes for the album Folk At The Oak

 

I’ve had many a good night at Edinburgh’s Royal Oak. I like my pubs small, intimate, and filled with regulars. But I also like a bit of chat and a bit of music (and I have a dislike of puggies and doormen both). The Royal Oak fulfils this remit--and then some. I even placed it in one of my books. Detective Inspector John Rebus is on his way home one evening but decides to have a nightcap. He’s shocked to walk into the Royal Oak and find that his nemesis is singing a song there. As far as Rebus was aware, Big Ger Cafferty (the gangster who owns Edinburgh) was in jail for the duration. But Cafferty has been released and the Oak is his first stop. I forget now what song he sings--Imthink it was Rabbie Burns--but he points to the sense of true democracy in the bar:if you have a song in your heart and a burning desire to belt it out, no one’s going to stop you.

   (But  you better be good mind.)

Cult pub hits right note with CD