"Gaun yirsel' wee Andy" !!!
Brilliant - but unfortunately, there are many people in Scotland who would think it was serious. Sure Phil Cunningham wasn't involved in that ?
"No fiddles or pipes", ceolachan ? Of course not - that's serious traditional Scottish music, ye ken - piano accordions with midi.
Thanks very much for that, benhall.1.
My son is big into the musicals and has appeared in many of them. Inclined to look down on his poor old dad playing traditional. I'm looking forward to seeing his reaction to this. I love it. My kind of humour.
kenny's dead right - well he would be, he lives there. It references(?!) not so much the living tradition of music in Scotland as the *undead* tradition...
At least the Edinburgh Woollen Mills shop in Durham plays Jimmy Shand!
No, they commemorate St. Andrew, but I don't know how they do this as St. Andrew is not known to have visited Scotland except posthumously, in the form (supposedly) of a few fragments of bone.
If you take the Catholic view that, as patron saint, he looks upon the country and guides its destiny, it is still difficult to pinpoint his activities with precision. But perhaps one might expect the town of St. Andrews, being so definitely linked with his name, to illustrate his nature and wishes with as much clarity as can be hoped for.
These are obviously centred incorrigibly on the playing and promotion of golf.
So I imagine the Scots go out on November 30th and play golf.
This is so St. Andrew won't come in the night and eat their Westies.
Great Scot!
Great Scot!
Sent to me by a friend of mine.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3etu0gUvAxg
Does anyone have the dots?
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by ethical blend
Re: Great Scot!
Is that some kind of awful disease?
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by ceolachan
No fiddle or pipes?
This 'dots' thing, what if they're not quite proper circles and they disappear when you press a glass up against them?
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by ceolachan
You've got me worried now, are these freckles or dots?
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Great Scot!
tee he
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by ...
Re: Great Scot!
An unlovely hybrid, to say the least!
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Great Scot!
"Gaun yirsel' wee Andy" !!!
Brilliant - but unfortunately, there are many people in Scotland who would think it was serious. Sure Phil Cunningham wasn't involved in that ?
"No fiddles or pipes", ceolachan ? Of course not - that's serious traditional Scottish music, ye ken - piano accordions with midi.
Thanks very much for that, benhall.1.
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by Kenny
Re: Great Scot!
it's gone
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by spindizzy
Re: Great Scot!
oh -it's there now!
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by spindizzy
Re: Great Scot!
ho, ho!
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by john knoss
Re: Great Scot!
What spin, the dots?
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Great Scot!
Dean Park is obviously a perverted genius, in the manner of Laurie Anderson and such.
# Posted on November 7th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Great Scot!
awesome.
i would like an album of that.
# Posted on November 8th 2008 by DubChieftain
Re: Great Scot!
My son is big into the musicals and has appeared in many of them. Inclined to look down on his poor old dad playing traditional. I'm looking forward to seeing his reaction to this. I love it. My kind of humour.
# Posted on November 8th 2008 by Free Reed
Re: Great Scot!
You gotta admit, though, it's *so* well done, it almost makes ALW enjoyable!
# Posted on November 8th 2008 by ethical blend
Re: Great Scot!
Brilliant ! you've brightened up an otherwise dour day.
# Posted on November 8th 2008 by Wabbit
Re: Great Scot!
kenny's dead right - well he would be, he lives there. It references(?!) not so much the living tradition of music in Scotland as the *undead* tradition...
At least the Edinburgh Woollen Mills shop in Durham plays Jimmy Shand!
# Posted on November 8th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Great Scot!
Play that funky music, whiteboys.
# Posted on November 9th 2008 by Lint - upon - Tweed
Re: Great Scot!
So that's who the Scots are commemorating on 30th Novemer, then?
# Posted on November 10th 2008 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Great Scot!
No, they commemorate St. Andrew, but I don't know how they do this as St. Andrew is not known to have visited Scotland except posthumously, in the form (supposedly) of a few fragments of bone.
If you take the Catholic view that, as patron saint, he looks upon the country and guides its destiny, it is still difficult to pinpoint his activities with precision. But perhaps one might expect the town of St. Andrews, being so definitely linked with his name, to illustrate his nature and wishes with as much clarity as can be hoped for.
These are obviously centred incorrigibly on the playing and promotion of golf.
So I imagine the Scots go out on November 30th and play golf.
This is so St. Andrew won't come in the night and eat their Westies.
# Posted on November 10th 2008 by nicholas