Editorials

In the pre-Internet days, we used to bemoan the sc …

Wool-clad competitors huddle under available shade …

The numbers don’t lie. The pipe band march, strath …

It’s fashionable these days to stress the positive …

By Martin Docherty The pre-competition scene at th …

Large bands that would reduce numbers by five or six would make a profound and lasting contribution to the greater good

It’s subjective judgment that always trips us up

There is an opportunity to reinvigorate in this most unlikely time

We could really use such an unlikely superstar

The lessons of social media might be applied to our ultra-judgmental community

A few lines on the horizon . . .

Constantly putting ourselves and our art through a pressure-cooker ultimately drives many of us away

All the hue and cry over something that should stay the same because, well, it’s always been that way, lasts about a week before it’s a distant memory.

Competitive piping and drumming stopped being “eth …

Sure, but piping and pipe band recordings are rarely named in anyone’s list of favourite albums