wow. can't stay up for the whole thing but seeing the Cirencester kids singing O Magnum Mysterium is amazing. I sang and played in that as a kid (our music teacher had been pals with Max in Orkney) and it was so exciting

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thanks - they were weirding me out watching it. like a commentary written specifically for someone who'd never seen a music clip before.

better get that drainage sorted!

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I visited their Cupar shop on Saturday - no stovies that time, but everything else was very much up to the usual standard

Me too. He sought me out backstage at the end and said "i just wanna shake your 'and". What a generous man - he knew that would mean a lot, as I'd told him earlier I'd been listening to his playing since I was a teenager. "Yeah, 50 years of knowin when to go 'boom'"

great, you've just reminded me of what I have to do this morning!

i walk past it all the time, a school pal lived in it in the 80s, and i still didn’t recognise it …

Ben Elton’s 11 year old son on vocals

in 1985 I took three members of Gamelan Sekar Petak to stay in a caravan in Poolewe for a week (Wilujeng was in our repertoire of course). Has this influence somehow lingered there?!