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00:13 Pick up the broken pieces from the ground
00:18 All your diminishing returns
00:24 And take a good look at the master plan
00:31 'Cause down here every candle burns
00:37 You are as gentle as the morning dawn
00:43 Torment can wash away your grace
00:50 In search of angels with a youthful style
00:56 So many suns light up your face
01:03 Tonight the skies are red
01:09 So red they fill my eyes
01:16 'Cause I'm not on borrowed words I can't describe
01:23 Here I am in paradise
01:29 See I know that all is well in the world
01:36 So don't worry anymore, don't worry now
01:45 'Cause another sun will rise
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02:00 Too many seas to cross, too many roads
02:06 You leave me with my higher needs
02:12 This one horizon and our borrowed hour
02:19 Such little lives we lead
02:25 Tonight the skies are red
02:32 So red they fill my eyes
02:38 'Cause I'm not on borrowed words I can't describe
02:45 Here I am in paradise
02:52 See I know that all is well with the world
02:58 So don't worry anymore, don't worry now
03:06 'Cause another sun will rise
03:12 [Music]
03:30 'Cause another sun will rise
03:36 [Music]
03:43 Hi, my name is Gary Innes.
03:45 My name's Ian Bain.
03:46 And together we are the Bain Brothers.
03:49 We are the Bain of people's lives.
03:51 We're here in Hyde Row ahead of Hooli in Hyde Row 2023,
03:54 the biggest night of traditional music
03:56 and the only night of traditional music
03:58 where an arena is hired solely to celebrate traditional music.
04:02 Hooli in Hyde Row came about back in 2020 in the January.
04:05 I just passed 20,000 followers on Facebook.
04:07 And so I said, "Thank you so much to everyone who's followed me.
04:11 And if half you guys chucked in a couple of quid,
04:14 we could probably hire Scotland's largest village hall to Hyde Row
04:17 and have the world's biggest ceilidh. Who's up for it?"
04:19 And so when I did that, I was very much dipping my toe in the water
04:22 to see what the feel was.
04:24 And it was a kind of resounding, "Yes, let's go for it."
04:27 And so I started speaking to the Hyde Row and we got a date.
04:30 And then, of course, six weeks later, national lockdown.
04:33 And I thought, "Well, that's it. No one's ever going to know I booked to Hyde Row."
04:37 And so we sat in it for nearly two years, waiting for everything to settle again.
04:41 And thankfully, last year, we managed to do that
04:44 and have the first ever Hooli in Hyde Row.
04:46 Last year was amazing. It was completely incredible.
04:49 Paolo Nutini was on the night before and the night after.
04:51 And to be sandwiched by someone of that kind of stature was just incredible.
04:55 And the first one was amazing.
04:58 There was obviously the real expectation from people going,
05:02 "What are we going to experience when we arrive at the venue?
05:05 And what's it going to be like?"
05:07 And I think everyone was pleasantly surprised.
05:09 And I think that goes to show from this year's numbers as well.
05:12 We got just shy of 7,000 last year.
05:14 This year, we broke 10,000.
05:16 So I think it's a good benchmark that it was a success last year
05:20 and hopefully an even bigger success this year.
05:23 And I think people will walk away and hopefully experience the night the way we want them to.
05:27 I spent 38 years on the drum throne of Runric.
05:30 So that was my entire career, really.
05:34 So that was five years ago that we retired the band,
05:39 the last dance in the super park behind Stirling Castle.
05:43 So to be here as part of this, as part of Runric's,
05:46 what would extensively be Runric's 50th anniversary,
05:50 is a great honour.
05:52 It's a great fold, really.
05:54 It's great to be invited by Gary to be part of it,
05:56 to be part of the celebrations.
05:58 But also, out of respect and a tribute to Bruce Guthrie,
06:02 our singer, who sadly died on the 5th of September this year.
06:07 So he's very much at the forefront of our thoughts tomorrow night.
06:12 So we're going to make it a night that he would have loved to have been part of.
06:16 I was going to say, he would have been having a ball.
06:19 He would have actually torn that stage up.
06:22 So where does that leave Runric?
06:26 Is there any chance that you guys come back?
06:29 Well, without Bruce there's no chance.
06:31 Well, hopefully they're going to have a great night.
06:33 And when they arrive tomorrow night, they'll be welcomed by
06:35 the newly crowned Grade 1 World Pipe Band Champions,
06:39 the People's Forge, the People's Forge,
06:41 it's a hard one to say, Boggall and Bathgate,
06:43 Caledonia Pipe Band.
06:45 Yeah, try saying that sober.
06:47 So that's going to happen outside, and they come in and Natty dreads,
06:50 and first then Trail West, then Woolstone, then Manon,
06:53 and then the celebration for Runric in the 50 years.
06:56 The guys, Runric, Capra, Caley's, all the guys up on the road,
06:59 Miles, and the hard work for decades, quite literally decades,
07:03 that's culminated in people coming from the highlands and islands,
07:07 from Europe, there's people coming from Australia and Japan.
07:10 They left days ago and online letting us know that's them,
07:13 they were away to be here this weekend,
07:15 for a celebration of traditional music, a celebration of Runric's music,
07:18 a celebration of our music and culture,
07:20 and it feels like we're very much in the crest of a wave in Scotland,
07:24 at the moment, with people celebrating our traditional music,
07:27 it's like the country's finally woken up and realised just how good it is.
07:30 Who attends a fully?
07:32 Everybody and anybody.
07:34 You know, it could be your neighbour, it could be your niece,
07:38 it could be somebody's granny and grandad.
07:40 That's the great thing about this kind of music,
07:42 it crosses all genres, all age barriers, everything.
07:45 It's about people coming together, it's about people celebrating together,
07:48 and it has no... it's not pocketed in any way, you can't...
07:53 You mentioned the LX event, it's a social thing, really, isn't it?
07:56 Very much so. I mean, that is the thing about Caley music and traditional music,
08:00 it's always been about people.
08:02 It's that, you know, the Bothy nights in somebody's house,
08:05 the Caley's, the weddings, the village halls,
08:08 the bigger venues, the growing, you know,
08:10 the band like Runrig going to Stirling Castle, Edinburgh Castle,
08:14 Loch Lomond in 1991.
08:16 All of these things as part of a social and cultural awakening
08:20 that's been happening for the last few decades.
08:23 And you've got bands like Man Ranch, Skirry Whore, Skiff and Ish,
08:26 all these other bands, Tidelines, you know,
08:28 that are just all culminating in this wave of awareness
08:33 of what Scotland has got.
08:36 And we've got the most incredible wealth of talent in this field of music.
08:40 And, you know, to be part of this personally,
08:42 you know, playing with some of these guys is just a great honour.
08:45 And so it's all part of that process of bringing people together.
08:49 And you'll find kids there tomorrow night that are just the same
08:52 as folk in their 60s, 70s, so that's the beauty of it.
08:56 And if it's your first time at a Hooli,
08:58 what advice would you give to someone?
09:00 Oh, that's good!
09:01 Well, I would imagine the best you could do is wear comfy shoes.
09:04 Yeah.
09:05 A kilt and maybe sharp elbows.
09:07 Yeah, absolutely.
09:08 Anyone who's attending for the first time,
09:11 I would imagine they know, they're fans of the music at least,
09:15 so I think they know what they're going to expect.
09:17 But if you're attending for the first time,
09:19 what I would say is just come in with your heart ready to burst
09:23 with hopefully pride for the music,
09:25 but you're going to have so much fun with everyone around you.
09:28 And I think the big thing about traditional music as well
09:31 as the musicians themselves feel like a big family,
09:34 but equally the audiences that come along to these shows
09:37 feel very much like they're all in it together,
09:39 and I think that's an incredible thing.
09:41 I know people who are coming here on their own tomorrow night,
09:44 quite nervous about it, but I guarantee by the time they leave,
09:47 they'll have made an awful lot of friends.
09:49 And that's partly what it's about too.
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