Some say he is at his late granny’s heilan’ hame for Hogmanay; others that he is on the slippery slopes of the Alps, or perhaps Lake Louise; but all we know he has roused himself from his slumbers, cast off the wooly hat and penned his year end review eagerly awaited by our wonderful readers. It may be an antidote to an awards industry that had just about awarded everything,…

Unlike the House of Commons, the House of Lords wasn’t sitting last Saturday, so our Lord of the Dance, MacStig, was able to attend the really big event and report for us from Glasgow…. In a parallel world, the baying rabble in the House of Commons chose to sit on this Saturday of all Saturday’s, the World Solo Drumming Saturday of 2019, where the only real question was, would Steven…

It is the ‘drum, drum, drum of hoofbeats in the sand’ and like the Red Shadow and his Riff gang (younger readers look it up on Google) our MacStig has quietly arrived, delivering an analysis of the forthcoming World Solo Drumming contest in Glasgow in two weeks time…….. Ah yes, the autumn leaves begin to flutter down, the temperatures are colder and darkness falls. No, not the march past at…

The lads and lassies of Closkelt got their deserved reward after a sterling 2019 season where only the final hurdle of the Grade 2 World Championship eluded them. They picked up three of the other Majors and in a fourth were not present, but caught the ear of the RSPBA’s Music Board enough to be promoted to the higher echelon, to Grade 1, for 2020. Band members are pictured above…

We hope you have enjoyed MacStig’s contributions to PP over the summer. He, and he alone, has provided our Grade 2 bands with entertaining commentary throughout the 2019 pipe band season. We know the bands are grateful for it and his thousands of readers are testament to his popularity. Thank you MacStig! In his final piece today he leaves us with a few words on the 2019 Worlds. Given the…