The outstanding Swiss Top Secret Drum Corps recorded at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in August 2009.
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Title of Video: Royal Edinburgh Tattoo 2008: Taste of the Tattoo Princes Street Gardens
t=#1m21s – Fanfare
t=#3m01s – Massed Pipes and Drums
t=#7m04s – India Army Chief Military Band
t=#10m43s – Highland Dancers
t=#12m16s – Golden Eagles Marching Band
t=#15m46s – Singapore Police Pipes & Drums
t=#23m22s – HM Kings Guard of Norway
t=#28m53s – Massed Bands and Finale
The 2008 Edinburgh Military Tattoo was an excellent year for music and this was shown well during the annual Mini Tattoo shows in Princes Street Gardens underneath Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh where the Tattoo puts on a free open air concert for members of the public and tourists on their Festival Edinburgh Scotland trip.
The 2008 Edin Tattoo included a wide variety of acts from across the world which include the Singapore Police Pipes and Drums and the stirring sounds of the Massed Pipes and Drums from Scotland and abroad.
These Military Tattoos bands included the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, the 1st Royal Tank Regiment and finally the Singapore Police Pipes and Drums.
Classic acts return to the Scottish Tattoo this year to the Tatoo Edinburgh which include the Band of the Guard of His Majesty The King of Norway and the Massed Bands of the Royal Marines which includes the new addition of the Indian Army Military Band. The Royal Regiment of Scotland also makes a welcome return to the esplanade who will play alongside the Royal Marines. The military bands will be performing Hielan Laddie, We’ll Take the Good Old Way and Gael, last performed at the Edinburgh Tatoo in 1997.
The exciting UK Edingburgh Tattoo finale features the 1,000 strong cast with the guard of honor provided by HM King’s Guard of Norway who will also stand guard as Drawbridge sentries. Tunes being played this year include Scots Wha Hae, The Soldier’s Return, the National Anthem, Auld Lang Syne and the Evening Hym with prelude and sunset closing the Edinbourgh Tattoo.
Not forgetting the magical sound from the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Lone Piper high above the castle’s ramparts. As the lights dim, fireworks enter the sky as the military bands march down the esplanade and down the famous Royal mile in Edinburgh to the tune, Scotland the Brave, We’re No Awa to Bide Awa and the Black Bear.
Other acts at this years Edinborough Tatoo include the Queen Victoria School from Dunblane who are celebrating 100 years of the school’s existence. Another act back, this time from 1997 is the Lochiel Champion Marching Drill Team. The Massed Highland dancers are present, this year featuring dancers from Scotland and Canada. From South East Missouri come the Golden Eagles University Marching Band making their way to the Edinburgh City Tatto Edinburgh.
Here is a programme of the Edinburgh Festivals Edingburgh Tatoo 2008 Tattoo Music:
Massed Pipes and Drums:
The Heroes of St Valery (MacLean Arr S Samson), The Bloody Fields of Flanders (MacLellan Arr S Samson), El Alamein (W Denholm), The 51st Highland Division (MacLeod Arr S Samson), The Badge of Scotland (Mackay Arr S Samson), Kate Dalrymple (Trad Arr S Samson), The Ghlass Ault (Trad Arr S Small), The Mason’s Apron (Trad Arr S Small), The Battle of the Somme (Lawrie Arr S Samson), Longueval (George Stoddart), Chasing Shadows (Philip Greer), The Glasgow City Police Pipers (D MacLeod Arr S Small), The Bonawe Highlanders (D Bowman), Heilan Laddie (Triad Arr S Small)
The Golden Eagles Marching Brass Bands:
Yankee Doodle, St Louis Blues, Kansas City, America the Beautiful, The Stars and Stripes Forever March
The Singapore Police Force Band With The Women’s Police Pipes and Drums And The Gurkha Pipes and Drums And Cultural Group:
Singapura, Piping Hot, Barren Rocks of Aden, Mixingapura
The Lochiel Marching Drill Team:
Colonel Bogey, O Waly Waly, Juni, Gladiator, Czardas
The Indian Army Chief’s Military Band:
The Cariappa, Kadam Kadam Badhaye, Dhwaj Ke Rakshak, Sare Jahan Se Achha, Veer Bharat
Gangotri, By Land and Sea, Deshon Ka Sartaj Bharat, Singarh, Sam Bahadur, Amar Senani, Hanste Lushai
His Majesty The King’s Guards Band and Drill Team of Norway:
Viking Intro, March of the Guardsmen, Budapest Marsch, Drums of Thunder, Drum Salute, Amazonia, Old Ranger Marsch
Queen Victoria School, Dunblane:
We Will Rock You, The Clumsy Lover, Rose Amongst the Heather, Itchy Fingers, The Panda, Rocking the Baby, The Liberton Polka, The Victorians
The Bands of Her Majesty Royal Marines from the United Kingdom:
Life on the Ocean Wave, Marchamber, Frontline, Time Off, Children of Sanchez
& British Massed Bands and Massed Pipes and Drums
Video Produced by Alan Taylor, Alan Andrew Taylor of Willow Creek Pictures
Duration : 0:37:38
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Scottish Tattoo
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t=#0m38s – Massed Pipes & Drums
t=#7m04s – Taiwan First Girls High School Band
t=#10m41s – Middlesex County Volunteers
t=#14m25s – Highland Dancers
t=#20m14s – Russian Moscow Conservatoire Orchestra
t=#23m42s – Russian Conservatoire Marching
t=#36m05s – Fav Bit, Russian Bear
t=#39m09s – Trinidad & Tabago Defence Steel Orchestra
t=#44m43s – Massed Bands Royal Artillery
t=#47m22s – Finale
Title of Video: Tattoo Edinburgh, Taste of the Tattoo 2007: Brass Bands, Scottish Highland Dancing Part 5
The 2007 Edinburgh Military Tattoo was a fantastic mix of music and marching where I filmed my third Mini Tattoo, this time in Hi8 and for the whole performances. I’ve yet to do one in HD or Standard definition for that matter, hopefully things will change too.
The Mini shows are free to view and are an excellent addition to the main performance of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo at the castle every night of the Festival during August. An average of 217,000 visit the tattoo on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle each year. For the last decade, it has sold out in advance where 30% of the audience is made up from spectators from Scotland, 35% from the rest of the United Kingdom. The rest are from overseas.
The current Edinburgh Tattoo stands were first used in 1975 and have a capacity of 8 ½ thousand spectators. This year in 2011, new stands worth 16 million pounds will replace these aging stands which will allow some extra comfort for this world renowned event.
The Tattoo is performed every day of the week and twice on Saturday evenings in August. No performance has ever been canceled due to weather. The second performance on the Saturday evening includes a Fireworks display although some are used on the show not to mention the lumiere feature on the castle which was introduced and used since 2005.
Since 2004, the Tattoo has held free performances at the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens called the Taste of the Tattoo and in 2008, they also took place in George Square in Glasgow. The Tattoo has toured around the world including New Zealand in 2000, Australia in 2005 and Sydney again in 2010.
This year’s Military Tattoos Massed Pipes and Drums are made up of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the Royal Corps of Signals, the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles, Scottish Universities Officers Training Corps, The Auckland Police, The Royal Caledonian Society of South Australia and the Royal Army of Oman.
The UK 2007 Scottish Tattoo will always stick in my mind more than others after having a spectacular opportunity to watch the show from bottom of the East stand while filming and high up on the scaffolding for the finale where the hairs on my back went up. I felt a deep feeling of love for the music and felt proud to be Scottish. I can’t describe it with a few words, you would have to be there to really understand. One of the best feeling anywhere.
The word tattoo originated from Doe Den Tap Toe which means last orders where the British Army each night would signal for the troops to head back to their barracks. It was a term used to describe the last duty of the day and was turned into a form of evening entertainment performed by Military musicians. The first Tattoo in Edinburgh entitled Something About a Soldier took place at the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens in 1949. The first official Military Tattoo began in 1950 with just eight items in the programme. This drew some 6,000 spectators seated in simple bench and scaffolds. 1952 saw the capacity of the stands increased to hold 7,000 spectators.
Here is a music programme for the 2007 Edinburgh Military Tattoo:
Fanfare:
Fanfaric Salute
Massed Pipes & Drums:
Pibroch O’Donald Dhu, The Skye Boat Song, Mhari’s Wedding, Rainbow Country, The Blue Bells of Scotland, Killiecrankie, Dewar’s Spirit of the Tattoo, Come by the Hills, Itchy Fingers, Castle Rock Ceilidh, Trevor Warnock, Flee the Glen, Hot Punch, Lord Levent’s Lament
Taipei First Girl’s Senior High School Honour Guard & Drum Corps:
Riverdance Opener, Riverdance Finale, Yesterday
Middlesex County Volunteer Fifes & Drums:
Massed Commonwealth Highland Dancers:
Appalachian Round Up
The Band of the Moscow Military Conservatoire:
Various
The Mounted Band of the Blues & Royals:
Royal Horse Guards Slow March, Capriccio, Toreador’s March, Radetsky March, The Mason’s Apron, The Royal Slow March, Fehrbelliner
Trinidad and Tobago Defence Steel Orchestra:
Day O, Hey Jude, Rum and Coca Cola, Brown Girl in the Ring, Fighter, Dead or Alive
Massed Military Bands:
Music at War Medley, Royal Standard, Holyrood, Trumphal March from Aida
Massed Military Bands & Massed Pipes and Drums:
Lass o’Fyvie, La Boum, Everything I Do
Video Produced by Alan Taylor, Alan Andrew Taylor of Willow Creek Pictures, 2007
Duration : 0:54:19
Time-lapse made from frames captured from the Tattoo webcam.
Time span: 19:45 – 22:30 (2¾ hrs)
Total number of frames: 1485
Frame rate: 10 FPS (any higher and it ran too fast!)
Music: “After Hours At McGanns” by Gaelic Storm
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Duration : 0:2:29
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The TV advertisement for the 2009 Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, the world’s largest annual indoor show, that has been described in the media as “…a night that’s part Cirque du Soleil in its variety and inventiveness, yet pure Gaelic sentiment too, and one of the most moving nights of entertainment I’ve ever experienced!”
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The 2005 Edinburgh Military Tattoo celebrated Trafalgar 200.
The Royal Marines – Fanfare for the First Sea Lord
Massed Pipes and Drums – Led by senior Drum Major Scott McDougall RHF
The 2005 Tattoo saw one of the largest gathering of pipes and drums in the event’s history, with 13 bands on parade, including the pipes and drums of all six regular infantry regiments of the Scottish Division. This was the last time all six appeared at the Tattoo prior to the formation of the Royal Regiment of Scotland:
Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
King’s Own Scottish Borderers
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s)
Scots Guards
Irish Guards
Royal Gurkha Rifles
Scottish Universities Officers’ Training Corps
South African Irish Regiment
Rats of Tobruk Pipe Band (Australia)
City of Wellington Pipe Band (New Zealand)
Music: Cullen Bay, The Heroes of Kohima, Mhairi’s Wedding, Dewar’s Spirit of the Tattoo, The Minstrel Boy, When You and I Were Young Maggie, The New Rigged Ship, Fear a Bhata, Jimmy Tweedie’s Sea Legs, Hoist The Anchor, Jog Ahoy.
Duration : 0:9:59
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Intercontinental Gathering
Played by the Massed Pipes & Drums
Salisbury 2007
Duration : 0:0:49
Highland Cathedral played by the combined bands of The Scottish Tattoo, accompanied by pictures from Salisbury 2007 sell-out show.
Duration : 0:1:42
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