Adam Stafford (born 24 February 1982) is a musician & film maker from Falkirk, Scotland.
Adam Stafford is probably best known for being the lead singer and song writer with critically acclaimed Scottish band Y'all is Fantasy Island. Having formed the band in 2001 as a solo project Stafford added various members to augment his alternative folk sound. To date they have released 4 albums.
In 2009 Adam Stafford directed the short film "The Shutdown" written by Scottish author and playwright Alan Bissett. The film went on to win the "Best Short Documentary" award at the San Francisco International Film Festival,[1] "Best Short Documentary" at Palm Springs Film Festival, along with both the Jury and Audience prizes for Scottish Short Film at the Jim Poole Awards. At the end of 2010 the film also won "Best International Short Documentary" at The Belo Horizonte Film Festival in Brazil and Grand Jury prize for "Best European Short" at Festival Premier Plans in France in January 2011.
The Shutdown was also nominated for a BAFTA Scotland "New Talent Award",[2] and for the "Scottish Short Documentary Award" at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Stafford also the composed the music for "The Shutdown". The 23 minute track entitled "Hammer Eats Hoover" can also be found as the finale on Y'all is Fantasy Island's fourth album "Infanticidal Genuflector"
The film has been selected in competition in excess of 30 International film festivals since 2009.
In 2010 Stafford directed the promotional video for fellow Scottish act The Twilight Sad's single "Seven Years of Letters"[3] from their second album "Forget the Night Ahead".
As well as his film making Adam Stafford is about to release his third solo album of 2010. On the first two records - "Awnings" and "Miniature Porcelain Horse Emporium" - Stafford experiments with vocal looping and textural soundscapes. He was quoted as saying "I'd been experimenting with looping and layering vocals before – inspired, primarily, by Steve Reich's vocal arrangements on Music For 18 Musicians and Edinburgh artist Wounded Knee."
The third record "Music in the Mirabel" is a collection of covers and re-workings with tracks ranging from Daniel Johnston to Austrian Poet Georg Trakl. It is due for release on Stafford's own Wise Blood Industries label in July.