“I still buy a new album and flick through it trying to find the weepy ballad – but for God’s sake, I was in Mostly Autumn for 13 years!” Heather Findlay’s affection for melancholy

Heather Findlay.

Doncaster-born Heather Findlay joined Mostly Autumn at the age of 19, remaining with them for 13 years before launching a solo career in 2010. She also worked with Jethro Tull, Fish, John Wetton, Uriah Heep and Ritchie Blackmore and been a guest for Ayreon and John Mitchell’s Lonely Robot project. In 2020 she spoke to Prog about her latest solo album Wild White Horses – made in partnership with Luke Morley, guitarist of the hard rockers Thunder. 

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