Pipes and Drums

I was interested to see that a wedding reception at the Lamb yesterday involved a number of men dressed in kilts and included a bagpiper and drummer. Its an interesting phenomena that weddings in England often now to involve men dressed in Kilts and often also involve pipers. When I lived in the Belmont district of Ayr, the large catholic chuch at the bottom of my road usually had pipers at the weddings that seemed to be a regular feature of saturday afternoons but you would not expect to find the \skirl of the bagpipes echoing out over fore street, Silverton.

My one moan about this would be that we seem to have to have the appallingly plastic sound of 'Highland Cathedral' blasted at us rather then morre traditional scottish material, but there again most english peoples knowledge of scottish culture comes from the shortbread and tarten school of scottish identity. The image of Scotland we get is as false as the image of Ireland created by the likes of 'Riverdance'.