User:Michael McMillan Music

Michael McMillan is a Glasgow Scotland born Singer Songwriter, International recording artist and touring musician. He has played all over the world including Brazil and extensively across the USA. Learning to play Scottish Highland Bagpipes at a very young age led him to be in his first "band" and from there he went on to learn drums. As a teenager he moved to London and played with well known bands and musicians of that era.

Returning to Glasgow he continued playing drums with local bands and experienced a good deal of success with The Downtown Flyers and Heaven who became the rock band Glasgow.

He began writing lyrics and songs at this time, but kept them for another time and place. Influenced in his younger years by The Beatles The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Hollies, he started listening to the music coming from the USA and soon immersed himself in the "songwriters' of that era. Jackson Browne, Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Young, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Guy Clark, Bruce Springsteen. All wonderful songwriters and all wonderful storytellers. These stories ran along very similar lines to the stories Michael McMillan wrote and still writes to this day. Stories of "real"life and "real" people.

Michael has a strong Christian Faith, he was a serving Police Officer for many years and an Addictions Counsellor for many years following that.

Michael McMillan has seven albums released to date, "Cold and Roofless, Faith to Faith, "Meet Me at The Cross", "Missing Person", "Whisky" and "Where Wild Thistles Bloom." All of these albums are rich with stories of life from both sides of the track and from all walks of life.

Michael has played in large concert halls, small intimate house concerts, Prisons and Churches and is comfortable in all of them, making his audience feel at home and welcome through his wonderful Scottish humour and stories of "real"life.

"His songs are like short individual movies that take the listener right there to that time and place. He is like a Scottish Neil Young or Bob Dylan."