When British chamber-pop quartet Stornoway plays “Watching Birds,” from its debut LP Beachcomber’s Windowsill, frontman Brian Briggs is singing about what he knows: He earned his Ph.D in Ornithology ...

For those unfamiliar with [Stornoway‘s] work, the band features multiinstrumentalists Brian Briggs and Jon Ouin who founded the band when they met while studying at Oxford University, before Oliver ...

Stornoway's debut album Beachcomber'Windowsill, driven by the infectious single Zorbing propelled Stornoway into the mainstream consciousness with critics linking them to a wider folk-pop revival, and ...

Born at Oxford University, Stornoway has gone from friends jamming together and bonding over Teenage Fanclub to releasing an acclaimed debut album, Beachcomber's Windowsill, last fall.

Funnily enough, none of the members of Stornoway have ever been to Stornoway (it's on the Isle of Lewis, in the remote Outer Hebrides). In fact, they're based in Oxford. A classic BBC Introducing ...

The smiles said it all. From the minute they picked their way over the maze of cables, cases and instruments to take up their places centre stage at the Sheldonian Theatre, the four members of ...