Tide Lines
Group · United Kingdom · formed 2016
Scottish folk music group
Timeline
2010s
Biography
Biography
Tide Lines are a four-piece folk pop band from the Highlands of Scotland. Cited in 2023 as one of the leading folk rock groups in Scotland, their musical style has been described as "anthemic, indie-folk".
History
The band's first studio album Dreams We Never Lost was released in June 2017 following the release of their first single Far Side Of The World some months earlier. The album is a mix of English and Gaelic songs as well as the Piob Mhor Pipe set. Two further singles Fortunes of the Fearless and The Young and The Restless were also released as singles from this album.
In October 2018 the band released a six track EP entitled Lets Make Tonight. Two singles, Heroes and Running at the Dark were released prior to the EP. Heroes won Video of the Year at the 2018 Na Trad Awards. The EP also contained a live version of Far Side of the World recorded at the HebCelt Music Festival in 2018. In November, the band sold out the Scottish music venue Barrowland in Glasgow.
Their second album, Eye of the Storm, was released in May 2020 and debuted at #12 in the Official UK Album Charts. Eye of the Storm also topped both the Scottish and independent album charts on the week of its release.
In December 2020, the band issued a small scale release through their own website called the Lockdown Mix Tape consisting of three cover songs and the song This Christmas Time which was re-released as a single in 2022 as a duet with musician NatiDreddd. They performed the song "My Way Back Home", written by Christopher Lennertz and Philip White, which was included on the soundtrack album of the Netflix film The Loud House Movie (2021).
Rivers in the Light was released in July 2022 as new material from the planned third studio album, again self-produced and recorded at the group's own studio. Written in the Scars was released in September 2022.
In March 2023, the band released their third studio album An Ocean Full of Islands and announced a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Their fourth studio album Glasgow Love Story was released on the 25th of April 2025, and followed up with a tour later in 2025 to venues in Scotland and England, with Rose Betts as a supporting act.
Members
Robert Robertson – vocals and guitar
Alasdair Turner – electric guitar and bagpipes
Ross Wilson – keyboard
Fergus Munro – drums
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 1 | 0.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 10 | 26.4th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
MusicBrainz enrichment for this artist is still pending. Release groups appear here once it runs.
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Tide Lines head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 1 | 0.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 10 | 26.4th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28225016genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28225016seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide_Linesbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide_Lines
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Scottish musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: no portrait (not displayed: the licence credit is missing)
Wikidata: Q28225016 · MusicBrainz: 3fdf4f52-04c2-4084-b6ad-15b480a39bbc
Similar artists
Browse every Tier 3 artist →Ranked from this record's own data: shared genre tags (rarer tags weigh more), era, home country and comparable fame. Every card lists the signals that placed it — no editorial picks.

Nina Nesbitt
United Kingdom · Person
folk-pop
1 shared genre tag · debut 2011 · from United Kingdom
27 wikis

Laura Marling
United Kingdom · Person
folk-pop
1 shared genre tag · debut 2007 · from United Kingdom
30 wikis

Tanita Tikaram
United Kingdom · Person
folk-pop
1 shared genre tag · debut 1988 · from United Kingdom
36 wikis

Zolotoe Koltso
Russia · Group
folk-pop
1 shared genre tag
3 wikis

Donovan
United Kingdom · Person
folk-pop
1 shared genre tag · debut 1965 · from United Kingdom
43 wikis

Ciguli
Turkey · Person
folk-pop
1 shared genre tag
5 wikis

Gepe
Chile · Person
folk-pop
1 shared genre tag
5 wikis

Jeremy Loops
South Africa · Person
folk-pop
1 shared genre tag
5 wikis