Our man on a mission has followed Grade 2 all season, knows the bands inside out (the same as his socks). Let’s wind back a few days to the Worlds where he can be found with his good ear to the ground watching and listening, that helmet no impediment to his pertinent postulations….. Greetings from the sun kissed and simultaneously drenched arena 2, perched on the teeny tiny stand on…

With the ‘pre-Worlds’ concert a permanent fixture on the annual calendar, and Glasgow Skye Association promoting its 25th Concert with guests Scottish Power, our permanent fixture winged his way from the hostelry with a horse shoe shaped bar where he is becoming a permanent fixture, to the event. Ever ready, his batteries are always on and he is a Duracell of Power himself. MacStig was in the stalls along with…

From the Argyllshire wetlands our correspondent MacStig made a special trip to last Saturday’s North Berwick contest which remained on whilst Perth (Sunday) had already been cancelled. Here is his report.…. It was a touch overcast with mist up on the flatland beneath the barely visible hill as the Rotary fellow relieved me of a five pound note for car parking. It was a bit of a mire underfoot, the…

Our MacStig is a deep thinker and closet data anorak. He’s a stats freak, not just a pretty face, (truthfully not pretty at all – he could frighten a police horse and has a great face for radio – hence the helmet). But spare him some of your time. You might have heard his brain clunking as far north as Oban and the cerebral gears grinding far south in Gatehouse…

From afar on yonder rock, sou’wester on and boat in dock,A pen is poised and commentary flows, he writes it all and scratches nose, Lurgan, Paisley for your delectation, Glasgow Green his last destination,Now a review of Dumbarton here from MacStig our chap in the racy gear…..  As reported elsewhere it was a truly atrocious day and safety had to be considered first and foremost, not just for competitors getting…