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Programme of the 2006 British military tattoo edinburgh event, the Royal Edinburgh Tattoo:

For the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 2006, I went along with one of my friends which was before I even started a TV course as it shows. I shot this footage using my Cybershot P73 stills camera. Me and my friend were lucky enough to choose the night when Sir Sean Connery was attending the edin tattoo and got maybe ten metres next to him, so close yet so far.

The Edinburgh festivals Scottish Tattoo takes place every year in the month of August alongside the Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe Festival. The events Edinburgh spectacle generates millions of pounds to the Scottish economy alongside other festival Edinburgh events. 2006 was my 6th visit to the Tattoo in Edinburgh.

The word Tattoo came from the phrase, Doe den tap toe which in Dutch meant least orders. The British used the practise where it became a signal, played by the regiment’s corps of drums and pipes and drums where the tattoo military soldiers would retreat to their barracks at the end of a day. The first Edinburgh Military Tattoos were called something about a Soldier which took place at the Ross Bandstand at Princes Street Gardens in 1949. The first official Edinburgh Military Tatoo began in 1950 with just eight items in the programme. There were 6000 spectators seated in beanch scaffold structures around the Edinburgh Castle esplanade. In 1952, the capacity was increased to hold a nightly audience of 7700 allowing 160,000 to watch the live performances every year.

Fanfare for the Scottish Soldier — The Gathering

The Massed Pipes and Drums — Queensland Police, Cape Town Highlanders, Scottish Universities Officers Training Corps, The Royal Air Force, 2nd Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles, 1st Battalion the Gurkhas Rifles, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, 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, 1st Battalion Irish Guards, Scottish Guards, 1st Battalion Scots Guards and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

Brass bands tunes played include: Scots Wha Hae, Forward as One, The Piper’s Waltz, the Devil’s Staircase, Rakish Paddy, Paddy’s Epic Journey, Jameson’s Reel, The Piper’s March, The Mist Covered Mountains of Home, Lucy Cassidy, Rocking the Baby, Wi’ A Hundred Pipers and the Old Rustic Bridge.

Watoto Children’s Choir play Wi Polo, Nakusinzanga and Yesu Ni Wangu.

The Band and Pipes and Drums of the Royal Gurkha Regiment perform Bravest of the Brave, Zorba the Greek and Yo Nepali.

Massed Highland Dances made up from the Highland Spring Dancers and the South African Highland Dancers combine to perform The Lover’s Stone, Nelson Mandela’s Welcome to the City of Glasgow, MacLean of Aird and Sarie Marais.

The New Zealand Army Band arrived in Edinburgh with their humorous performances set to the tunes, William Tell, Colonel Bogey, Cornets for Scotland, James Bond, Thriller, Soul Bossa Nova, Pokarekare Ana, Swan Lake, Shetland Fiddler, Haka, Musket Fife & Drum, Hine e Hine and Amazonia.

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Concert Band of the Army of Chilie with Evendart Artistic Company play the March of the Red Hackels, the Radetzky March, Thanks for Life, Viva Chilie, She Who Consents, the Rose and the Carnation, Farewell to the 7th of Line, Queen of Tamarugal, Easter Island Ritual, Mapuche Ritual, Get Back, the Woolen Hat, Chilean Patrotic Overture and We’re No Awa Tae Bide Awa.

Top Secret Drum Corps

The Edinburgh military bands were made up of the Coldtream Guards, The Scots Guards band, the Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland from the United Kingdom accompanied by the Tattoo Choir, the Kevock Choir. Their selctions of songs include State Ceremonial, Fingal’s Cave, Grandioso, Sing, Sing, Sing, Road to the Isles, the Scottish Soldier Tribute and Scottish Soldier.

The combined Pipes and Drums with the Massed Bands play Can you feel the love tonight and Highland Cathedral where the final features Scots Wha Hae, the National Anthem, Auld Lang Syne, the Evening Hym, Lord has Ended, the Last Post and finally the Lone Piper playing the Highland Cradle song.

The Tattoo Edinburgh ends with the marchout where the bands play Scotland the Brave, We’re No Awa Tae Bide Awa and the Black Bear.

The Royal Military Tattoo Edinburgh Youtube Video Produced by Alan Taylor, Alan Andrew Taylor, 2006, UK

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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

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The arrival of the mass bands at the Hamilton Military Tattoo, composed of the Black Watch of Canada, The Lorne Scots, 48th Highlanders of Canada, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, Dundas Pipes and Drums and the Hamburg Caledonian Pipes and Drums.

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Edinburgh is the Capital City of Scotland and a great place for a trip on a tour bus taking you around the centre of Edinburgh seeing the best views and attractions. There are many different tours, one of which is called the Edinburgh City Sightseeing Tour. On board, you can pick up a headphones set, choosing your channel of choice based on a variety of languages. These languages currently include; English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. There is an additional language option called Horrible Histories Edinburgh which is created by Terry Deary which is a major Children’s channel on CBBC. The City Sightseeing Tour bus is a low floor bus which has designated wheelchair space. Downstairs, there is a TV screen which has a subtitled version of the tour. A 24 hour ticket can be purchased so that you can hop on and off all of the different tours.

The second one is the Edinburgh Tour, this tour has a speaker in person on top of the Tour Bus who speaks about the History and culture of the historic City. The Edinburgh tour route goes a bit like this; it starts from Waverley Bridge then moves to Princes Street, Edinburgh’s famous long road then into Lothian Road passing Festival Square and crossing over Bread Street to pass through Spittal Street down bypassing the Grassmarket via Johnston Terrace right underneath Edinburgh Castle. After that, it journeys down the Mile for a short distance before turning onto George 4th Bridge then moving along past Grey Fiars Bobby before turning around at Teviot Place. The next landmark is the National Museumn on Chamber Street where it then moves across the iconic North Bridge turning right onto Waterloo Place where it then travels all the way across Regent Road before turning back into Abbeyhill passing the Palace of Holyrood in the Queens Park and past the Scottish Parliament and Dynamic Earth. It does a U turn here and then moves to travel through the Conongate on the bottom part of the Royal Mile before moving across Jeffrey Street through Market Street to join back to Waverley Bridge next to the Station.

The City Sightseeing tour is similar although instead it does’t head through Johnston Terrace after Lothian Road but goes from Princes Street through King Stables Road passing the back of Princes Street Gardens underneath Spittal Street into the Grassmarket directly where it then passes Greyfriars Bobby and passed McEwan Hall at Teviot Place moving along Lauriston Place before rejoining the City Tour route until South Bridge where it heads directly down the Royal Mile in the opposite direction to the City Tour route. It then finishes up at Waverley Bridge with the rest of the buses.

The third tour to choose from is the Mac Tours which is a vintage bus tour giving passengers a traditional feel to going around the City. The route for this tour is quite different, it moves off from Waverley Bridge and crosses over Princes Street, joining onto St Davids Street before turning into George Street for a short period. It then turns into Hanover Street heading North until it gets to eriot Row in the New Town of Edinburgh. Once it’s there, it goes 180 degrees and makes it’s way up Frederick Street joining George Street again and takes you past Charlotte Square before moving onto Queen Street where it doubles back on itself and passes through Hanover Street on the opposite side of the road climbing up the Mound past the RBS headquarters and heading through the Lawnmarket across Spittal Street and down the Cowgate heading East. It heads all the way past the Scottish Parliament before heading up the Mile then taking the exist on Jeffrey Street back to the start.

The fourth journey is the Majestic trip tour which provides visitors and tourists with a journey between the City Centre and the New Town before heading to the Coast and Newhaven and Leith. This route follows on from Waverley Bridge then into St Davids Street and Hanover Street before moving down Dundas Street into Inverleith Row past the Royal Botanic Gardens before heading along the long Ferry Road where it passes Newhaven Harbour on the coast until it gets to Ocean Terminal and the Royal Yacht Britania. The next stop on the trip is through the industrial Burgh of Leith along Bonnington Road crossing McDonald Road back to the centre of Edinburgh where it passes the Omni Centre at Greenside Place, continuing along London Road which is on route to the East Coast and Portobello Beach although the tour turns past Abbeyhill past the Palace and Parliment before a wind through the Canongate and then back to the start.

One of the most exciting tours is the Forth Bridges Cruise Bus and Boat Tour where a bus takes you from the City Centre to South Queensferry and then by boat to see the Edinburgh and Fife coastline.

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Welcome to the latest all singing, all dancing episode of David Mitchells Soapbox. (Well, technically without the singing. Or, if were being honest, the dancing.)

In this weeks show, David ponders the relative merits of ancient languages. Should government bodies support the study of languages that are long forgotten? Should Cornish be resurrected at the taxpayers expense? Should Gaelic be on the school syllabus in Scotland?

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Colour, music, song, dance and spectacle permeate this 5-minute video recording of the 60th birthday celebrations for the 2010 Diamond Jubilee Tattoo (until 28 August) providing a distinctive flavour of this year’s Castle Esplanade spectacular.
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Gaelic Dream performing at the Ipswich International Tattoo. These guys sing in Scots Gaelic and dance to fast and fun music. They’re all about Scottish dancing and music. All from one family.

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