With the 78th Frasers, Manawatu and Boghall & Bathgate as centre bands for the march past, the remaining crowd and bands watched as the announcement was made that Scottish Power had swept the honours in Grade 1, writes MacStig In a lively Grade 2, with mixed competitions, several pointers to next weekend were given. With approaching 100 performances, and some bands performing up to three times, it was a full…

Grade 1 newcomers Lomond and Clyde Pipe Band will approach the 2019 season with a revamped practice schedule seeing them relocate a portion of their practices to Perthshire – but there will be no change in the band’s geographical identity or RSPBA branch membership. At the moment the band are looking at possible venues but they hope to secure something in the city of Perth, accessible to trains and the…

All reports to the PP office indicate that the numbers attending the games this summer are definitely up on last year. I hope our mini-campaign has helped but all credit is really due to the pipers who’ve taken the trouble and spent the money to get out there and have a tune. The knock-on effect is that local organisers will be encouraged that their time has not been ill-spent and…

A very warm day on Dee-side and a good entry of 11 pipers in the piobairreachd and 12 in the light music. Pictured above is piobaireachd winner Anna Kummerlöw receiving her trophy. Piob 1 Anna Kummerlöw, Glengarry’s March 2 Edward McIlwaine, Desperate Battle 3 Alan Clark, Marquis of Argyll’s Salute 4 John MacDonald, Lament for the Little Supper 5 Calum Watson, Hector MacLean’s Warning 6 Calum Brown, King’s Taxes [/caption]March 1…

Some say his brogues are rogue, tassles twirled seven times and tied in a bo’sun’s knot…and with that tie in a Windsor he thinks he’s royalty…..but what the heck, he’s our G2 guru (gnu?) and we know you just love him. He’s the one and only MacStig….  ‘TWTWTW’, or TW3, will ring a bell with readers of a certain age, and memory jog others. Long before his ‘sir’ ‘That Was…