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Callum Beattie has been hard at making music for almost half his life, making his own chances, taking chances and, for sure, being a chancer. The Edinburgh-born musician has progressed from “mangled” versions of Wonderwall and bad gigs in pubs straight out of Trainspotting, via stage invasions in front of 80,000 REM fans and backstage blags at T In the Park, to where he is now: a singer-songwriter with a punchy, rousing, emotive and gloriously catchy debut album that’s set to light up 2017. And light it up in stereo.