With Full Band

Broken Chanter is the stage name of Glaswegian songwriter David MacGregor. Broken Chanter can be MacGregor on his own or, more often than not, with an array of extremely talented musicians joining him. His latest album, This Could be Us, You, Or Anybody Else, was released by Chemikal Underground on 10 April 2026 to critical acclaim (Songs of hope for a world on fire – UNCUT) and chart success.

Prior to This Could be Us… MacGregor has released three critically acclaimed albums as Broken Chanter – 2019’s eponymous introduction to his new guise (A stunning, stately debut – The Skinny), 2021’s Catastrophe Hits (Muscular, fastmoving indie-pop – The Scotsman), and 2024’s Scottish Album Of The YearLonglisted Chorus Of Doubt (MacGregor’s particular skill is in camouflaging rage, heartbreak, and despair as uplifting earworms. [Chorus Of Doubt] shows a band on top of their game…at its best it’s agit-pop with heart 8/10 – UNCUT).

He spent 2007-2017 as the principal songwriter of Scottish Alt-Pop darlings Kid Canaveral – a band that could get you to dance, laugh, and weep all in the space of the same set. Their Debut LP Shouting at Wildlife was described by The Herald as “a Scottish pop classic that should be mandatory in every record collection in the country”, and saw the band perform across a large chunk of the western hemisphere, with the similarly well-received follow-up Now That You Are a Dancer being Longlisted for the SAY Award in 2014.