On 26 June 2020 Beattie released his first music video for the song " Salamander Street", about a former classmate who became a prostitute in Edinburgh. He sold out the iconic Kelvingrove Bandstand in August with the tickets going in less than 24 hours and has a run of shows to come, while the dream is to play at Scotland's National Stadium, Hampden Park in Glasgow. On Sunday 26 March Beattie performed 2 songs, Heart Stops Beating and Salamander Street in the centre circle at Ibrox park for the Rangers Football Club Legends match.

In the three years since his debut, he has gone from playing to “two men and a dug” in pubs to selling 6,000 tickets in a couple of days, wowing a big crowd at TRNSMT last year, and performing at a sold-out two nights at SWG3. It’s almost impossible to maintain the self-belief that you can achieve anything, but somehow with Dave’s help I’ve managed to keep at it, and this album is really the ultimate reward for that perseverance. He continued: "Vandals is exactly the record I wanted to make and it was done with the best group of people.In 2019, he uploaded the anti- Brexit and Conservative Party song "Boris Song" onto YouTube, becoming viral. Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter. Sleaford Mods battling for Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with retrospective album All That Glue". He sold out the iconic Kelvingrove Bandstand last August – those tickets went in less than 24 hours – and he has a hefty run of shows to come, while the dream is Hampden.

It was all about the energy in the room and our producer Chris Marshall did a phenomenal job of getting the absolute best out of all of us. The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent between 4pm and 5pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day. Dave and I are now joint patrons of Paige’s Musical Butterflies - a charity set up by Paige’s family to provide music therapy for ill kids. Out now, the record finds the Scottish artist sticking to his roots, working on a deeply independent basis. It was all about the energy in the room and our producer Chris Marshall did a phenomenal job of a getting the absolute best out of all of us.

In May 2020 Beattie was interviewed by Robin Galloway on Pure Radio about his pride in the Scottish sound of the album, saying that his "heart will always lie back home". He’s already sold out the iconic Kelvingrove Bandstand in August –those tickets went in less than 24 hours – and has a hefty run of shows to come, while the dream is Hampden. There have been times in my life where I thought getting music into the market was completely beyond me, so to have come this far on such an incredible journey is something I have gratitude for every single day.