Skelpaig

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Skelpaig Autoproduzione
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Skelpaig Regno Unito
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All the wonderful musicians we've grown up listening to, the people we've met and the places we've been.

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Skelpaig are a trio from the Scottish Highlands, equipped with fiddles, pipes, whistles, flutes and guitar, subtley twisting old traditions in new directions...

The CD is out now!

www.skelpaig.co.uk
www.last.fm/music/Skelpaig
http://cdbaby.com/cd/skelpaig
www.footstompin.com/products/cds/ske...

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  • How to tell if you could fit in in Skelpaig...

    Now I mean the place, not the band. Don't be mean!

    1 You eat the wrapper as well as the black pudding
    2 You go to church and the supermarket in a tractor and trailer
    3 You look for a partner in the livestock section of the Stornoway Gazette
    4 You go down on your hands and knees to eat your food
    5 You tie your trousers/skirt with binder twine
    6 You tie your shoes with the same
    7 You use 'Castrol GTX' to style your hair
    8 The last time you washed your hair was for the Queen's Silver Jubilee
    9 You buy your underwear from JD William's
    10 You have a tin of 'Raid' on the kitchen table
    11. You like 'Spam'
    12. Your sheepdog retches watching you eat
    13. Going to the toilet involves a walk outside
    14. Your last meal was walking around your house ten minutes before you ate it
    15. You clean your teeth with 'Jif'
    16. You use the 'Free Press' to cover holes in your wall
    17. Less than half the cars round your crofthouse actually work
    18. You send requests into the 'Durachdan' on BBC RnG more than once a week
    19. Your dog sits in the front of your van more often than your spouse
    20. Blythswood refuse to take your cast off clothes
    21. You were in your local bar when your children were born
    22. You've deliberately hit a deer or sheep with your car
    23. You've given a rat trap as a Christmas present
    24. You have been involved in a custody battle over your sheepdog
    25. You clean 'Massey Ferguson' parts in the bath
    26. Your partner weighs more than your fridge
    27. You wear your socks and pants inside out to make them last twice as long
    28. You keep the council wheelie bin in your kitchen
    29. You wash your wellies in the sink without someone yelling at you
    30. You eat herring on a sandwich
    31. You go to the local swimming pool when you need a wash
    32. You clean your fingernails with a stick
    33. You order your teeth from a catalogue
    34. You've mistaken your auntie Murdina for a man
    35. You've tried to drown a fish
    36. Your bed sleeps more than one pet, as well as yourself
    37. There are no left overs when you eat a crab
    38. You have pet names for each of your 150 sheep
    39. You think Kenny MacIver is a celebrity
    40. You have two brothers called Angus
    41. The same wellies have been in your family for five generations
    42. You vacuum your sheets instead of washing them
    43. The strongest smell in your house is 'Calor Gas'
    44. Your kitchen continually smells of fish or boiled mutton
    45. You get dressed up to go to Stornoway/Portree/Castlebay/Baliva
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    46. You go swimming in the drainage ditch behind your house
    47. You have ever eaten sheeps head broth
    48. You grow a moustache so you look more like your mother
    49. You've ever had to siphon petrol from your tractor to put in the car
    50. You don't own a lawnmower and have never used one

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  • Skelpaig cd!

    Here's the latest - the skelpaig cd is all recorded, mixed, mastered, DONE!
    Oh, just except for the trivial matter of art, sleeve notes, agreeing on what to call the bloody thing etc...

    Suggestions on a post card!

    We're all trying not to get too excited until all the work is done. We'll keep you posted!
    Cheers :) x

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  • What a state.

    "what in god's name happened to you lot?"
    "three days on Rum with Tam the Banjo."
    "ah, well you don't look too bad considering."

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  • Kirsty-Jacqueline Lingard
    luv Kirsty-Jacqueline Lingard

    cd is fabby!!!!!!!! :D xxx

    77 settimane fa
  • Eilidh Scammell
    luv Eilidh Scammell

    Aye!!!....... :D

    83 settimane fa
  • Fiona Wilson
    luv Fiona Wilson

    hi can we buy a real copy(and maybe get one to give away on our show :) )

    87 settimane fa
  • Lizzie
    luv Lizzie

    Hello you lovely people. When are you back in glasvegas again then? Fancy a visit to dennistoon? Lizzie xx

    90 settimane fa
  • Heather Miranda
    luv Heather Miranda

    Kat -

    wow, wow, wow. I've just listened to your CD extracts. wow. (oh, and did I mention...?? wow.)

    I feel very honoured to know such talented folky musician types! :-)

    You've inspired me to go and practise my fiddle... however I don't think the neighbours will appreciate it at 23:58!!!

    xx

    93 settimane fa
  • Eilidh Scammell
    Eilidh Scammell

    Highland legends?????? Aye well Dave is the headless piper I suppose... He he that's such a crap joke!!! :)

    102 settimane fa
  • Kirsty-Jacqueline Lingard
    Kirsty-Jacqueline Lingard

    Kat, David....when you get the CD done, would you like to pop one in the Sleat Community Trust petrol station and shop!?!?!?! I'm putting Skye folks CDs (and people i like's CDs in!!) and would love to have yours here!!!!!!!!!!

    let me know!! When you heading up Skye way next...if your in Sleat on a thursday, great wee tune in the Isleornsay pub (Eilean Iarmain)!!!!

    love ya both....and the band rock!!!!! :L :L

    kirsty xx

    104 settimane fa
  • Katherine Liley
    luv Katherine Liley

    "Great music from this group of Highland legends" so says Hootananny...well who am I to argue?
    Heeheehee :L

    126 settimane fa