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Runrig – The Stamping Ground (2001, Scotland)

Our next spotlight is on number 6 on The List, submitted by Almandine.

Formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973, Runrig was a much-beloved Celtic rock band that, among other things, was the first to have a song sung in Scottish Gaelic make the UK Singles Charts. By the time we get to this, their 11th studio album, they had long expanded their sound beyond traditional ceilidh/pastoral folk to be more folk rock, sung more songs in English than Gaelic, and had a number of line-up changes including lead singer Donnie Monro leaving (in 1997) and being replaced by Canadian Bruce Guthro. It apparently took a bit to get fans onboard with the change in lead vocalist, but this album brought renewed interest in the band (particularly across the pond) and it was ultimately their most successful. This album has even been played in outer space, taken onboard the space shuttle Columbia by American NASA astronaut Laurel Clark on the ill-fated STS-107 mission in 2003. The shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry but Clark’s CD copy was somehow found by NASA investigators in what little wreckage survived, in a field somewhere in Texas. Clark’s family presented the CD to Runrig, and the CD would later become part of a museum exhibition on the band (I’m not crying you’re crying).[1]

• Songlink: Runrig – The Stamping Ground
• Discogs: Runrig – The Stamping Ground

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YKcbxXQDsQ ↩︎

#celticFolk #celticMusic #celticRock #gaelicMusic #laurelClark #runrig #scotland #scottishMusic

Well we may not be getting to see Nicola Benedetti perform tonight in Dundee - thanks pesky cold! - but we do have a fab unwatched Runrig DVD in hand. So now watching their 1991 concerts. Fab. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304653/ #Music #Runrig

"Hearthammer" - Runrig

#TOTP debut for Scotland's biggest band, a nostalgic trip through the band's youth.

The video was filmed at a hugemungous concert they'd played on the banks of Loch Lomond earlier in the summer; all 30,000 in the crowd were recorded singing on the 12-inch.

#TOTP #Runrig

I remember first encountering Runrig back in the mid-1990s. They stayed my #1 fave band for about 15yr. It took discovering symphonic heavy metal to shift that sorta-fandom a couple of years ago.

Still good to recall the old favourites once in a blue moon though.

🎵
Once in a moment, the sun goes down
Protect and survive🎵

spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1DrpeRz9VzrCtprFcdm3sl?si=8b498b2b23cd4279 ;

or Tidal:
https://tidal.com/browse/track/234645920?u ;

and somehow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive seems faintly relevant

#runrig #music #scotland #thoughtful

Well, I made the mistake of listening to #Runrig ‘s live version of #LochLomond this morning and now I’m pining for a beloved #archaeology project instead of drafting this stakeholder presentation. 😭

Suffer with me!

https://youtu.be/CHu0h9XaNcg?feature=shared

Our current viewing. It’s a 2-part documentary about a Runrig tribute band, and is still on the iPlayer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002b9gt/beat-the-drum-dileab-runrig #Runrig #Gaelic #Music #Scotland

Runrig - "The greatest flame"

It's like standing on a clifftop, looking out over the wild Atlantic.

Originally from the "Amazing Things" album, which was Runrig at their most anthemic. Re-released to promote "Long Distance", the group's best-of album, and as good an intro as any.

They'd performed the song on #TOTP back in May 1993, back when the set was dressed with flaming braziers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN-ZlpBgMsM

#Runrig

Gerade Bruce Guthro und Runrig mit Hearthammer (standesgemäß over the Tannoy(s)).

Das Stirling-Castle-Jubiläumskonzert ist ein Hammer fürs Herz.

#CD #Musik #Runrig

Runrig: Fichead Bliadhna

Critique Scotland's education system until the early 1980s when native #Gaelic -speaking children were often beaten for using their mother-tongue.

Freedom of the moor
Freedom of the hill
And then to school at the end of summer
Children,
Five years of age,
Without a word of English in our heads

#Tunesday #Runrig #Scotland #education #Indigenous

https://youtu.be/nqScZeREk5w?si=0JZFXuLpjQxtGTch

Meine Frau hat gestern eine #runrig Tribute Band entdeckt… die sind wohl sogar „offiziell“ anerkannt… die Frau ist happy, weil die Live Aufnahmen so gut waren, dass sie da aufs Konzert gehen will. Freut mich für sie…
Falls hier also noch jemand auf die steht….

We've just discovered that there's a remastered 20-track rerelease of Runrig's "The Cutter and the Clan" album (1987). This was my first Runrig album, bought on cassette when I was still at school in Hawick. And we think it was maybe my husband's first Runrig album too, bought early on at university. So no surprise, that's what we're listening to now. https://open.spotify.com/album/2A46JhDLTE2PBAMDJqlI8d #Runrig #Music #80s #1980s #ScottishMusic #80sMusic #Gaelic #GaelicMusic #TheCutterAndTheClan

Very much enjoyed tonight watching the Skippinish 25th anniversary concert at Edinburgh Castle the other week, recorded and aired on BBC Alba, and available for UK folks on the iPlayer. Also some very special guests. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002173j #Skippinish #Gaelic #Scotland #ScottishMusic #Music #TraditionalMusic #FolkMusic #EdinburghCastle #BBCAlba #Concert #Edinburgh #Capercaillie #Runrig #iPlayer #Gaidhlig

The National: Niteworks have announced a new and final single to commemorate their last year together as a band with further tour dates in Inverness’s Eden Court and London’s The Garage also shared.

The new single, [An Toll Dubh]… is a cover of the song originally written and performed by Runrig’s Calum and Rory Macdonald.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24251034.scottish-band-niteworks-releases-single-going-separate-ways/

#Niteworks #Runrig #AnTollDubh #Ceòl #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #CleachdI #MastoDaoine

@gaidhlig

Duncan Chisholm es uno de los músicos más importantes actualmente de la #música #celta. Es miembro del mítico grupo #Wolfstone y ha tocado con la mayoría de los grandes del género, especialmente con #Runrig y #JulieFowlis
En los últimos años ha dejado el grupo un poco apartado y se ha embarcado en una serie de álbumes instrumentales realmente ambiciosos. (sigue hilo 🧵)

Creator of An Gèidheal Ùr, Faclair nan Gèidheal, Aimsir.scot & original Gaelic language social network, AbairThusa.

#Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Gaeilge #MastoDaoine

#Gèidheal #Gèidheil #Cuèir #Queer #TransAlly

#Bhìogan #Vegan

#ScottishRepublic #ScottishIndependence #ScottishGreens

#TheLibertines #LinkinPark #blink182 #GreenDay #Runrig #Mànran #TroyeSivan #TaylorSwift

#Rugby #GlasgowWarriors

#Farscape #StargateSG1 #StarWars #StarTrek #DoctorWho #BattlestarGalactica

#TheDarkTower #LordOfTheRings

I just learned that #BruceGuthro passed away about three months ago and I'm heartbroken 😭

I was lucky enough to see #Runrig in concert with my boyfriend the last time they were in Berlin. It was magical. The audience kept on singing Hearts of Olden Glory even after the band had left the stage for the last time.

Thank you so much for the music and rest in peace, Bruce 😢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YWs95UGis

Bruce Guthro’s Lives Lived from The Globe and Mail

#RIP #Canada #Scotland #Music #Runrig #CelticFolk #CelticRock

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-charismatic-cape-breton-songsmith-bruce-guthro-fronted-legendary/

Tha mi glè bhrònach.

Runrig singer Bruce Guthro dies aged 62

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66727738

#Runrig #Scotland #NovaScotia #Gaelic #gàidhlig #FuckCancer

How very sad. #RIP #BruceGuthro. He was a fine addition to the #Runrig lineup after Donnie left. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66727738 #Music #Canada #NovaScotia #ScottishMusic #CanadianMusic #GaelicMusic #TraditionalMusic #FolkMusic #CapeBreton #Gaelic #Scotland