I ended up missing most of it and will now have to go back and watch it knowing the results in advance.......I got to go shopping with my wife instead


I'm glad that they showed the juvenile grade this year because that is a fantastic grade and contains the pipers of the future. Bands like George Watsons, George Heriots and Dollar Academy have done so well over the years. In my day it was Craigmount, Craigmount and Craigmount....

Have to say that I rarely listen to the medleys any longer as I don't think of the music as 'bagpipe music'.

In fact, I absolutely detest the breaks between tune after tune, the hornpipes and jigs which sound more like something appropriate for an Amsterdam barrel organ than a set of bagpipes and the roundedness of the playing. Not to mention harmony after harmony, tune after tune.

Give me MSRs any day. Although, could they not just choose some tunes other than Highland Wedding, Susan Macleod, Athol Cummers, The Sheepwife, Mrs. MacPherson etc. etc. just for once?