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COMMENT(S): Revolutionary
Published: March 20, 2011
Author: MichaelGrey | (report inappropriate content) |
| Allan - enjoyed your comments almost as much as Donald's well-considered review. You might want to consider not wearing the kilt - anywhere, anytime. |
Published: March 14, 2011
Author: Cuchullin | (report inappropriate content) |
| Pity about the spurious crap about whether I wore a kilt or not. [Edited] Going back to the gig itself, my point was and continues to be, that the kilt represents to me, as a Gaelic speaking Highlander, a symbol of cultural repression; the militarisation of our people as the majority were press-ganged and/or put in the uncompromising position of having to go and fight the Wars of the expansion and colonisation by the Brits abroad. The whole of this country called Scotland as well as its emigrants have taken the invented traditions of tartanism shamelessly on board without thinking of the other aspects of the culture that are elemental such as the Gaelic language. The military hangover of insistence on wearing kilts at piping events is the kind of tokenistic drivel that reinforces the reality of image replacing content that pervades today.
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Published: March 14, 2011
Author: che2 | (report inappropriate content) |
| the bombarde players will be chuffed at having their music compared to the racket that comes from a vuvuzela. |
Published: March 11, 2011
Author: DRG | (report inappropriate content) |
| I never normally comment on these things but that review was as good as the DVD appears to be.
A masterclass of prose! |
Published: March 09, 2011
Author: gramps | (report inappropriate content) |
| If Donald McBride's day job wasn't in sales or marketing he missed his calling. I hadn't planned on adding this DVD to my collection but it is now a done deal. | |
