The Worlds

My feature from The Worlds is now online. Following The Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band at the World Pipe Band Championships 2016. (click the photo below to view) Thanks also to my sponsors for the day. If you have a story or an idea, get in touch to see how we can work together.

The Pipers hit Paisley

It’s been a whirlwind last few months – lots going on, so much so that I have missed the first few contests of the Pipe Band season! However, that was remedied last weekend when we jumped down the M8 to Paisley for the British Pipe Band Championships. This was the first year of three, where […]

Piping at Forres

A fortnight after the UK Championships in Belfast, which sadly I didn’t make the trip across for, I headed North to Forres for the European Pipe Band Championships. The 430am start from Glasgow wasn’t pretty, but meant we were at the park for just before 9am – plenty of time for a wander and breakfast. […]

Pipe Band season kicks off

The British Pipe Band Championships were my first outing this year, having missed the traditional starter at Gourock due to other commitments. A change in venue within Bathgate was warmly welcomed amongst the bands compared to the last two years and the weather was also favourable – no need for capes! Event gallery is here: 2015 […]

The Worlds (Saturday)

The morning of the World Pipe Band Championships started slightly different this year, for me at least. For the first time, the final round of grade 1 had already been decided [yesterday] so there was no live worlds stream to watch first thing. That left only one thing for it, get down to the green […]

The Worlds (Friday)

After what has been a busy week of Piping Live, the World Pipe Band Championships kicked off today with the Grade 1 qualifying heats at Glasgow Green. The two arena set up worked very well, giving every band a chance to play into the main stage and then swapping over for the second performance. I […]

Piping Live! 2014

For the past ten or so years, the week leading up to the World Pipe Band Championships is a celebration of everything bagpipe and pipe bands. Throughout Glasgow, there are pipe band performances, solos’s, drumming events and much more as the build up to the main event on Friday and Saturday. I managed to get […]

SFRS Pipe Band

SFRS Ceilidh

My good friends in the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service Pipe Band invited me along to get some photos of the bands first outing with  new P/M George Sharp at the helm. It was a great night with a well received performance by the band during the interval. Tricky lighting conditions with the disco lights […]