Scottish Pipe Band of the Year

[Ship called Dignity]

[quote="mrn]Who are the two kids in the photos?[/quote]

Jayne McKerral and Ross Ferguson

Just received this full press release - can be found at - which is still under development!

http://www.campbeltown.info/news/localnews/index.htm

I'd like to think the forum helped with the votes - so well done if it did!

Right, I'm away oot for a walk wae the wee man!!

[Iona]

Like the new site Davie -

Well done to all involved - it is a real credit to the people involved and the town and Kintyre as a whole.

Shame the Oban Times couldn't even print a picture of the kids - plenty others!

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I agree. It looks very good, and it is a real nice touch to be able to read more than the first three sentences of a news story

Am looking forward to the return of the webcam. With all the changes, will the forum remain, davie?

[Ship called Dignity]

With all the changes, will the forum remain, davie?

Yes - absolutely.

When I started out a couple of years ago I had a number of ideas for the website. Initially I was going to create a site for Campbeltown, then I decided to go for a site about Kintyre as there are so many great things about the area. The forum was then created to allow others to post their news, views etc but it kind of distracted me totally from my initial objective.

I always meant to go back and concentrate on the website.

So many ideas and so little time! Hope to get there, however, over the winter months!

If anyone has any news post it on here or e-mail me and I'll add it to the site.

[mrn]

Who are the two kids in the photos?

Jayne McKerral and Ross Ferguson

Just received this full press release - can be found at - which is still under development!

http://www.campbeltown.info/news/localnews/index.htm

I'd like to think the forum helped with the votes - so well done if it did!

Right, I'm away oot for a walk wae the wee man!!

Thanks - thought one was Ian's daughter.

Well done again - lets not forget the brass band either!

[peenkles21]

Mon eh Kintyre!

[Sweltered]

Well done again - lets not forget the brass band either!

Why, were they pipe band of the year too?

[bubbly jock]

lets not forget the brass band either!

What have we to remember them for? I thought this was about the band.

[mrn]

Well done again - lets not forget the brass band either!

Why, were they pipe band of the year too?

No, of course they were not but just wanted to point out the brass band's existence which has been over shadowed in the last couple of years (for the right reasons!). Not that long ago they were the pride of the town and, to many of us, still are.

On an other note, Sweltered - you are quite an irritating character, aren't you?

Bubbly - don't you speak too soon - apparently the net is closing in on you. I have friends in the Carradale and.....

[bubbly jock]

Bubbly - don't you speak too soon - apparently the net is closing in on you. I have friends in the Carradale and.....

mrn, everybody is closing in on me at this time of year so I'll likely lie low for a wee while.

I would hope to see another year without ending up in the hands of the "happy, smiling" mobile burger van queen. I would hate to be just a bit of grizzle getting wiped off the leather trousers. Ugh and it's not so much the death I fear 'cause I'm sure it would be quick but being dead and covered in tomato sauce just gives me the heeby jeebies.

By the way there's naw such a thing as freens in Carradale.

Nobody is gelling at the moment apart from JD Carra the piller of the community. He gels the hair wan way for the water fairy night, parted on the other side for coast crawling and it jeest hangs loose gelless for all other tasks.

Don't suppose you could give me a clue about the net holder??

bubbly

[general jack o'niell]

congratulations to the brass band on another successful year, they are a credit to all involved but this thread was about the pipeband, so haud yir weesht.

brilliant year yet again for KSPB but it could have been much better if it weren't for biased judging at glasgow in particular, the comment about the brassband displays the same sort of attitude that prevented kintyre schools from coming home on august 12th with two world champion bands and not one.

incidently the band members were supposed to get medals to commemorate this achievement seeing as it was the 75th world championships or something? haven't seen one arrive in my hoose yet!!!

if i appear biased then its because i am, if sweltered appears biased, its because he is, afterall he has two nephews who play in the two bands, sadly only one won a world championship this year, **//*&%$£ "£$^)*(****&*^%$$£, $%$:@~#`¬"£!()&*/*+=)(&*%. $%£%^&^%&**(^^%($$*&*^$£**!"" or both nephews would have won, he is rightly proud.

theres nothing like watching your child march into the arena and watch as his band are crowned champions for a second year, nothing, never will be!!!

itss only fitting that the KSPB as a whole won the pipeband of the year, the kids deserved nothing less, sadly due to circumstances they won't be able to defend it, tho a new nov. juv. band will no doubt do the town proud regardless of backstabbers and snipers within the piping world.

here hoping for another great year for the brass band too, they bring credit to the town wherever they go.

enough about bands involving local youngsters, that other lot, violent echo are pure mince

[jdcarra]

Bubbly - don't you speak too soon - apparently the net is closing in on you. I have friends in the Carradale and.....

mrn, everybody is closing in on me at this time of year so I'll likely lie low for a wee while.

I would hope to see another year without ending up in the hands of the "happy, smiling" mobile burger van queen. I would hate to be just a bit of grizzle getting wiped off the leather trousers. Ugh and it's not so much the death I fear 'cause I'm sure it would be quick but being dead and covered in tomato sauce just gives me the heeby jeebies.

By the way there's naw such a thing as freens in Carradale.

Nobody is gelling at the moment apart from JD Carra the piller of the community. He gels the hair wan way for the water fairy night, parted on the other side for coast crawling and it jeest hangs loose gelless for all other tasks.

Don't suppose you could give me a clue about the net holder??

bubbly

Ach bubbly jock, you've just nudged me oot oh ma hibernation period , but as you said yourselve the time of year is coming, so be aware.

That big spoon "the p" was on about, would be mighty fine for stirring up the soup from the left overs of the Christmas dinner

You nearly brought a tear to my eye's when you mentioned water fairy night, I really miss them at this time now that i have a new change of work style, maybe you can stand in for me.

As for the gelling of the hair, well thats another thing I can boast about, two brothers with slowly disappearing hair, me and the other, well Bobby Houston was my local in my youth, but three cuts a year is ample.

Anyway bubbly

I'm away to start posting again, lots of pics to cheer everyone up.

Here's hoping you have a nice Christmas and a Happy New Year, because I know we will .

[judge roy bean]

just adding my congratulations to the boys and girls, young and old of kintyre schools pipe band, great that the award goes to the bands as a whole, might not make up for the way the juv. band was treated by certain quarters in what was a year of breathtaking performances but they should all tikaboo as andy gray might say.

i'm told that next year will be a transitional year, so heres hoping the three bands transition it right up them and that the recognition sets the wheels in motion for a new generation of judges, judges who score on performance and not on traditional loyalties and financial ties.

in case your not aware, there are judges(one in particular) who only scores high for bands that use his instruments. this is allowed because thats just the way its always been?


judges!! you sons of bitches!!!!