Howie also works regularly with prisons, schools, youth clubs and community groups, delivering music and songwriting workshops.
The single received airplay from John Peel and BBC Radio 1's Scottish Evening Session.
In 2001 Howie's then band, Oldsolar, released their first album Many Visitors Have Been Gored By Buffalo to high acclaim in both national press and music magazines such as NME Howie followed this up with Autocity EP in 2002, a four track EP that sampled reports of car-accidents.
It received airplay from John Peel and Radio 3's Late Junction, garnering praise in In This Music?
[citation needed] Early 2003 saw the formation of the Autoclave Records label, which was to become home to all of Calamateur's future releases to date.
In 2004 Howie made the split from Oldsolar, largely due to logistical reasons, just after completion of a second album that, despite interest from labels, was never picked up.
A more eclectic affair, this album lost some of the acoustic stylings that had been present on earlier releases, in favour of richer electronic sounds, and features a full-band opening track, Half Truth, and a Blue Nile cover, Automobile Noise.
2004 also saw the release of Deep Peace a compilation album curated by Calamateur that features Aereogramme, Oldsolar and a slew of other artists.
In the summer of 2008 Calamateur filmed four songs and an interview for Rapal, a popular BBC Alba music television programme.
This was also the year which saw the completion of Inverness Old Town art's Street Texts project, which Calamateur was involved with in several ways; working with a local primary school to produce The Bad Weather Song, soundtracking a short film by DUFI about the project, and having lyrics from his song Inhabit engraved on a paving stone in Church Street in Inverness.