A singer, songwriter, guitar player with over 30 years experience playing his music all over the world, including Brazil, USA, and his home country of Scotland, plus he has even played at the Mandalay Bay hotel on the famed Las Vegas ‘strip.’ His catalog goes back to 2007 and last year his album “Whisky” was nominated for Scottish Album of the Year, while his 2018 album “Cross Country” had been nominated for UK Country Radio Album of the Year, plus he is currently writing what will be his eighth album.
“First impressions are crucial when you’re meeting people ‘cause you sometimes only got a snapshot, a few minutes, to make an impression on somebody one way or another. And you have to be genuine as well. It’s not about being false.”
“I play every show like it’s my first – and my last!”
“As I started, I looked at other artists that were big influences in my life and I wanted to be like them. And then eventually you get to a stage where, ‘I just want to be like me. The best Michael McMillan I can be’.”
“People have asked me, ‘What’s your favorite album,’ and it’s usually the one I’m writing at the moment.”
“My songs especially are very personal to me. I can’t write about beers and bars and trucks. I tend to write about real life and real people and people I’ve known or stuff that I’ve known.”
“As a kid… I joined a pipe band and learned to play bagpipes, and to be honest, as a kid in Glasgow, it was the best gang I was ever in. I would definitely recommend any kids to get into music because it doesn’t matter what color you are, what religion you are, what size you are. If you can play, you’re in – nobody asks. It’s the best gang you could ever be in, is playing in a band, of any kind.”
“A good friend of mine, Brian Robertson, who I was at school with, he joined a band called Thin Lizzy… So, he and I went down to London and played around in the London scene in the ‘70s.”
“Back in the day, London was quite a buoyant music scene… I met all sorts of people. We shared a flat with, like, Stewart Copeland of The Police – but he wasn’t in The Police at that point – but he was a great guy. And, yeah, people like that. We were rubbing shoulders with these kind of people.”
“That’s how I try to write – a story that would take listeners to the place, like a mini-movie, almost.”
“I just want my songs to touch people’s lives. When I write a song, that’s what my goal is, in some way or another.”
“First Impressions”
“Until We Meet Again”