RED HOT CHILLI PIPERS
RED HOT CHILLI PIPERS
Blast Live DVD Runtime: 80 minutes.
Pipe music at its best is wonderful. Just listen to the magnificent Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band and you'll see what I mean. However, pipe music can also be dreary and dreadful. Think of some of the woeful street pipers you come across from time to time in the city centre. It's no wonder that many folk associate bagpipes with laments and misery. It's all true but terribly unfair as these magnificent instruments are much more versatile than their poor public image suggests.
Enter the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. The one thing you'll notice about this ensemble is that they don't do dreary. They've invented a new sound - they call it 'bagrock' and it's infectiously wonderful. It's a frenetic fusion of drums, bass guitar and the bagpipes playing up tempo piping standards and heavy rock tunes. This is We Will Rock You and Smoke on the Water as you've never heard it before. Tunes from the likes of Queen, AC-DC, Status Quo and Deep Purple really do lend themselves to the Red Hot Chilli Pipers' unique style.
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers take to the stage resplendent in black kilts, and matching black shirts emblazoned with a red Lion Rampant. In contrast they wear bright red sporrans and socks and carry bright red bagpipes. It's all quite eye-catching on their first ever DVD release; a recording of a gig to a home crowd in the Glasgow fruit market in August 2008 during the Piping Live festival. To add to the entertainment, they are joined on stage by the extra spicy Red Hot Chilli Dancers and the Kintyre Schools Pipe Band from Campbelltown in Argyll.
These pipers have a fanatical home following and they're gaining a lot of fans all over the world on their tours. They have played in France, Germany and America and have just returned from a successful tour of India. Don't miss them if they ever come to Ulster. In the meantime enjoy this DVD concert and the extra interviews giving the history of the band and some glimpses of the lads on tour. You'll never look at a piper in the same way again.
Blast Live DVD Runtime: 80 minutes.
Pipe music at its best is wonderful. Just listen to the magnificent Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band and you'll see what I mean. However, pipe music can also be dreary and dreadful. Think of some of the woeful street pipers you come across from time to time in the city centre. It's no wonder that many folk associate bagpipes with laments and misery. It's all true but terribly unfair as these magnificent instruments are much more versatile than their poor public image suggests.
Enter the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. The one thing you'll notice about this ensemble is that they don't do dreary. They've invented a new sound - they call it 'bagrock' and it's infectiously wonderful. It's a frenetic fusion of drums, bass guitar and the bagpipes playing up tempo piping standards and heavy rock tunes. This is We Will Rock You and Smoke on the Water as you've never heard it before. Tunes from the likes of Queen, AC-DC, Status Quo and Deep Purple really do lend themselves to the Red Hot Chilli Pipers' unique style.
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers take to the stage resplendent in black kilts, and matching black shirts emblazoned with a red Lion Rampant. In contrast they wear bright red sporrans and socks and carry bright red bagpipes. It's all quite eye-catching on their first ever DVD release; a recording of a gig to a home crowd in the Glasgow fruit market in August 2008 during the Piping Live festival. To add to the entertainment, they are joined on stage by the extra spicy Red Hot Chilli Dancers and the Kintyre Schools Pipe Band from Campbelltown in Argyll.
These pipers have a fanatical home following and they're gaining a lot of fans all over the world on their tours. They have played in France, Germany and America and have just returned from a successful tour of India. Don't miss them if they ever come to Ulster. In the meantime enjoy this DVD concert and the extra interviews giving the history of the band and some glimpses of the lads on tour. You'll never look at a piper in the same way again.
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