Stephen Pastel and Gavin Thomson release new single, "The Most Beautiful House in Airdrie”

Featuring Pastels’ members Tom Crossley on flute and Katrina Mitchell on ethereal, wordless vocal, “The Most Beautiful House in Airdrie” imagines this odd, modernist house and also the ghosts of its occupants, echoing down through time.

“We wanted to convey the idea of something being out of place, out of time - that town landscapes are rarely one dimensional,” says Stephen Pastel. “The most beautiful house is sat right next to an estate of squat brutalist council flats, a mid-century anomaly, romantic and hopeful - almost like a dream. David Keenan has said that in all his time living in Airdrie he never saw anyone come in or out or even appear at the window.”

This is Memorial Device is the expanded soundtrack to Graham Eatough’s Fringe First award-winning stage adaptation of David Keenan’s 2017 cult novel of the same name. Coming across as a third iteration of the book, it establishes a whole new angle on the myth of Memorial Device through reworked home recordings from the era and expanded versions of music originally scored for the theatre production.