Top musicians record song for culture city bid

TWO of Dundee’s top musicians have come together to produce a single backing the city’s bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2023.

Acclaimed songwriter, producer and composer Gary Clark has recorded a new song, Over Bridges, to accompany Dundee’s campaign, with The View’s Kyle Falconer also contributing a verse to the song.

It will be the official song of Dundee’s bid, which is due to be submitted at the end of October.

Sing Street composer and former Danny Wilson frontman Clark produced the track alongside a host of other up-and-coming Dundonians, such as Model Aeroplanes, youngster Adam Hunter and St Martiins.

The LA-based songwriter said the song i s about crossing the Tay bridges and “coming home” to his beloved city.

He said: “I had been working on the debut album of a young artist called Adam Hunter and we had written a song called Over Bridges which was about returning to Dundee and seeing that iconic view of the city and crossing the bridges to home.

“I immediately thought the chorus of that song was perfect but strongly felt a song representing Dundee should be performed by a cross section of local musical talent.”

Clark sprung to fame in the late 1980s as the frontman for pop band Danny Wilson.

The band’s most famous s o n g , M a r y ’s P r a y e r, reached number three in the UK charts in 1998.

This year, his song Drive It Like You Stole It, featured in the film Sing Street, narrowly missed out on an Oscar nomination in the best original song category.

The public will soon be able t o download Over Bridges via Spotify.