Friday April 3 - Ironwork Inverness

Saturday April 4 - Webster Theatre Arbroath (plus a matanee)

Friday April 10 - Volunteer Halls Galashiels

Saturday 11th April – Carnegie Hall Dunfermline (SOLD OUT)

Friday May 8 - The Arches Glasgow

We’ve another new country under our belts as a couple of weeks ago we took Bagrock to the people of Kiev, in the Ukraine. It was a rather cold but unique experience for us to be in this part of the world and strangely enough, we were there to play at another Burns Supper! This year we’ve played more Burns suppers outside Scotland than ever before, with Calcutta and now Kiev being the most exotic!

This particular dinner was being held on Valentines Day so it was cause for double celebrations. The Kiev Lions Club, part of a fantastic organization that helps so many people in many ways worldwide, organized the event. We are always pleased to be involved in great causes such as this.

Now in its 14th year, there was a great turnout for the dinner and lots of money was raised for the good causes. We’re not sure if the people of Kiev have heard much of the bagpipes before but they certainly hadn’t heard anything like us and judging by the reaction it’s not something that they’re likely to forget in a hurry!

We were taken to Ukraine by two Scots now living in Kiev, Stuart and Robert who, along with Ozi, made sure we were well looked after in our time there and we had a great time at the party afterwards, especially the performance by Boney M and some well known Ukrainian acts! The guys even made sure the football fans in the band got to see the ‘Glasgow Derby’ on the Sunday!

If you’re ever in Kiev, we recommend you check out one of their other business interests, Shooters bar, where we were wined and dined and also gave an impromptu late night performance after the Burns Night!

Our thanks to Stuart, Robert and Ozi, to Iryna our translator, and everyone that made the night such a success.

This week, we’re returning to a couple of gigs that we’ve enjoyed in the past. Our first stop is Ljubljana, in Slovenia, where we are performing at an event for the Chivas Whisky group. We first played at this event about 4 years ago and it was then that the band really became what it is now with drumkit and guitar being added to give us a bigger sound. This obviously has fond memories for us and we’re looking forward to it, although last time it was very cold! From there we travel to Luxembourg and the Zeltik festival, where we performed last year. We got such a great response there last year that we cant wait to go back.

It promises to be yet another great week for us, we’ll see you here again soon!

Chillipiper x x

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers will be at Murray Park, Rangers training ground for a photocall on Thursday 29th January and then wil lstay to watch the training and myabe get involved with the team.....