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Year Of The Flood
''Year of the Flood'' is the DVD and CD of Runrig's Beat the Drum open air concert on 18 August 2007, filmed at Borlum Farm near Drumnadrochit on the shores of Loch Ness. It was the band's flagship event of Highland 2007, a series of cultural events to celebrate Highland culture and also seen as the realisation of growing desires to play a large open-air show in the Highlands, somewhat in commemoration to the legendary Loch Lomond open air concert of 1991, one of the undisputed highlights of the band's career. On the night before the concert, after a long period of dry weather, rain set in and lasted throughout the day, at times as torrential downpour. This transformed the festival grounds and its car park into a veritable mud hole, evoking memories of the famous Woodstock Festival 38 years earlier, and ironically fitted the name "Year of the Flood" of the first song of Runrig's new studio album ''Everything You See'', which had just been released in May. The festival st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runrig 2008
Runrig were a Scottish Celtic rock band formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973. From its inception, the band's line-up included songwriters Rory Macdonald (musician), Rory Macdonald and Calum MacDonald (musician), Calum Macdonald. The line-up during most of the 1980s and 1990s (the band's most successful period) also included Donnie Munro, Malcolm Jones, Iain Bayne, and Pete Wishart. Munro left the band in 1997 to pursue a career in politics and was replaced by Bruce Guthro. Wishart left in 2001 and was replaced by Brian Hurren. The band released fourteen studio albums, with a number of their songs sung in Scottish Gaelic. Initially formed as a three-piece dance band known as 'The Run Rig Dance Band', the band played several low key events, and has previously cited a ceilidh at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow as their first concert. Runrig's music is often described as a blend of folk music, folk and rock music, with the band's lyrics often focusing upon locations, history, politics, and peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
