It’s six o’clock on a Monday morning and Cold Years are freezing their arses off on Aberdeen beach. They’re furtively filming the music video for their latest single Life With A View, trying to nail the shot-list before too many people wake up and get in the way. This kind of thing doesn’t usually happen here, you see. Round here, on rugged Scotland’s north-east coast, they’re not like everybody else. Round here, they’re the ones who the locals look at with sideways glances and barely contained disdain – for daring to be different, for having ideas above their station, for dreaming of a life that reaches beyond the opportunities that their parents had, and their parents before them. It’s the same scene in small towns and cities-in-name-only the whole world over. This is the kind of pl...
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