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When college holidays are on we meet at Babbity Bowster http://babbitybowster.com/ Monday nights upstairs 7-9pm.  Currently that is Mondays up to and including 20th August.  All instruments and their owners welcome.

When the college term is on we meet at Glasgow Kelvin College Monday’s c730-930pm (there is a slow session c645-730pm) http://www.glasgowfiddle.org.uk/membership

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30 June 2018 Invited back to play for CLIC Sergeant at Morrison’s email valeriemcc@hotmail.co.uk if interested in playing

Who can come?  Dave, Davie, John S, Valerie

Sat 14 July – Andrew having a wee party 1pm bring ur instrument, have some lovely food, have a chat.  Andrew would appreciate idea of who is coming. Want to come but not sure where?  Email valeriemcc@hotmail.co.uk

Sat and Sun 28 and 29 July – GFW asking if Scratchy can field a group to do a set or two.  We are looking for a volunteer to lead this before any names taken for the group – can you take the lead?  Issue tune list with intros, keep order on the day? There are generic lists that can be amended and help available.

19th August – Smallpipers BBQ.  Tunes will be avail in advance or just come along enjoy the day.

15th September – possible booking tbc.

Saturday 29th September 2018 – Ham and Jam.  1100-1150.  May be possiblity of less formal slot in a marque at bottom of high street later in day or wee session.

31st January 2019 – Blawarthill ‘Burns Bite’ 7pm background music, wee bite at 730pm, more background music after food. Auld Lang Syne at end.

If you want to organise another practice or event and advertise it here let us know.

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Refugee Festival 17th June 2018

The Glasgow Smallpipers played the Refugee Festival at Kinning Park Complex.   They invited Scratchy Noises to join them again and we fielded a drummer, guitarist, and fiddler as support.

Lovely tunes.

Happy 8th Birthday Scratchers

The offical band of the Men’s 10k again today.

Happy Birthday to Scratchy Noises.

Well done all runners and players.

Here is a wee video warts n all

https://www.dropbox.com/s/li4nle936balrvr/File%2019-06-2018%2C%2019%2008%2038.mov?dl=0

Muirhead Gala Day

Torrential rain but fortunately we were indoors at the Guide Hall tea party rocking a few numbers.  Great cakes.

Had a wee time out to catch the football and a few beers then another wee set at the Bowling Club.  Thanks to Mel for standing in q for burgers.

Very impressed with the folk who were out and about weathering the …..well…weather….to see all that was going on.

Seven Lochs Trail Launch.

Scratchy Noises were asked to play at the launch of the seven lochs trail. The centre for the event was Proven house in Auchenlee, where people could gather in the courtyard for refreshments at the Caberet style tables that were set out in the glorious sunshine. Sit back, relax and enjoy the music in the open air. Fortunately the band got there early enough that we got to pick our spot carefully in the shade or we would have been burnt to a crisp.

Due to a secret fiddle weekend (shush) there were a destinct lack of fiddles available. In fact since it was finally summer, good weather, and the weekend, there was a distinct lack of available players overall. After some last minute discussions, on return from our holiday to Islay, I spoke to Dave (Whistle) and Mel (Banjo / Fiddle) who were both mad enough to say yes to us attempting the gig with only us three.

So the Scratchy Noises “Boy Band” was born. Move over One Direction the old kids on the block are “Lost Bearings”.

We played quite a bit longer than I thought we would have, taking a relaxed meander through the tunes we knew, interspersed by some we nearly new, alongside some we had never heard of before. Mostly they went well and some of the unrehearsed ones went surprisingly well. We also had some adhoc surprises from each of us with me playing a few tunes on the bagpipes, singing a few songs. Mel playing some Irish tunes on banjo and David (Whistle) singing. Yes you heard me correctly Dave (whistle) singing.

At one point I was singing a song and out of the corner of my eye I caught sight of a very cool member of the audience, i was struggling to stifle my laughter as he had a fantastic hipster / Poirot moustache. I want one of those …

 

We were pre-warned by some distant thunder that the show was about to come to an end, which was timely as we were running really low on tunes, songs and dance moves at this point .

Then there were the poor people who got caught in the rain when it came on, really heavy, soaked through completely. But at least they were still smiling even when we pointed out the irony of the super dry T-shirt. He was going to take it straight back to the shop for a refund as it certainly was not super dry.

All in all we had a lovely day out. Thank you to all who made it happen.

Daffy Day, Greenbank Garden

A lovely day spent playing tunes at Greenbank.  One of these days I’ll actually be able to play the fiddle with a daffy hat on….no cheeky comments please! Enjoy the pics.

CLIC Sargeant

Well done the team who played this morning at Morrison’s Auchinlea.

I thought we sounded good and we got lots of compliments.

Raised £214.14 for the charity.

Here is the after party….

Session @ Lochwinnoch Arts Festival

Hi all,

Tomorrow night, Sean Middleton (whom I believe most of you know) is running a session as part of the Lochwinnoch Arts Festival.

The session starts at 9pm at The Corner Bar. Myself and a couple other Scratchers play regularly in Lochwinnoch and it’s always good fun. The sessions are very friendly and you can always go back home with a few more tunes in your list.

It’d be great to see you tomorrow. Come over for a tune! 🙂

Update: We had a great session last night. People seemed to enjoy it and so did we!

Nostalgic Brodick Castle trip April 2015

Hi, I didnt know you could post videos here, so I have had this clip for quite some time. Some of you will not have seen it before, so I thought I would post it for you. Its an early Scratchy Noises trip to Brodick Castle, Arran in 2015 (yes, it was that long ago I’m afraid). I hope you enjoy. The trip was organised for us by Alison S and we had a terrific day out. This is taken in the pub beer garden while awaiting the ferry homeward. Probably after a few drinks!

 

Any volunteer to do a wee task?

Don’t all rush as once…special offer….first to comment ‘I will do it’ in this post wins the task….

 

Look at the 3 tunes books, the tunes played on their own book – on this page –   https://scratchynoises.wordpress.com/tunes-we-play-2016/and the blog post https://scratchynoises.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/successful-day-tune-housekeeping/

Make a list of any single tunes listed in this list Look at this list https://scratchynoises.wordpress.com/scratchy-noises-tunes/ but not in any of the books or the summary of our March tune housekeeping.

Here is hoping someone is willing to do this save me another job.

Asturian tunes

Hi folks,

So these are the 2 Asturian tunes we had a go at today plus a third one that would go 2nd in the set.

The tunes are:

– Pasucáis D’Amieva 

– Pasucáis de Xuan Martín

– Muñeira Carcarosa

You can find the recordings below. All the tunes are played twice, first time at normal(ish) speed, 2nd one slowly.

I hope you ejoy them 🙂

Just for more info, I mentioned Asturian dancing and the traditional clothing. Here’s a photo.