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 […]

XX Commonwealth Games – Glasgow 2014

Glasgow hosted the Twentieth Commonwealth Games dubbed as the Friendly Games and it certainly delivered. Not only were we [family and friends] delighted to hold such a massive event, but proud that it went so well. Glasgow looked great, the weather held up (for the most part) and their were some great sporting moments of […]