Ah, a piper friend sent me the link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9wH5CQfQs
It wasn't filmed on Saturday (17 August) when the Worlds proper took place, but on the day before, when our band and many other bands, in ordinary clothes, were rehearsing on Glasgow Green.
A 2:03 you can see our piper Dan and his Long Beach Pipe Band bag-cover. At 2:12 you can see me.
Only the Grade One bands compete on Friday, a system begun when there were too many Grade One bands to play in a single Saturday contest.
So preliminary heats were held on Friday for the Grade One bands who didn't pre-qualify from their previous year's placings.
Oddly, after Covid when fewer bands attended making a preliminary heat unnecessary, the Friday contest wasn't abolished.
Thus Glasgow Green has kitted-out Grade One bands competing and mufti-clad pipe bands rehearsing on Friday.
Last edited by OC Richard; 19th August 24 at 03:43 PM.
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