Twenty years on, Splashy Fen is a weird but wonderful gathering. In fact, it is two gatherings that coexist, rather uncomfortably, side by side. In 2009 its roots as a festival founded by hippies and ...

Earlier this year some guy covered Born of Osiris on an accordian and bagpipes, and now there’s this: a bagpipe medley of Lamb of God songs, brought to our attention by Gear Gods. Should we really be ...

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix has an expansive musical vernacular that goes far beyond the black metal leanings of his brainchild Liturgy. He enjoys composer Igor Stravinsky (Hunt-Hendrix went through an ...

This one’s for all the accordion and bagpipe players in the world who thought they’ve be subject to a life of nerdery and obscurity, never to see the bigtime, and certainly never to be involved in ...

The bagpipe occupies the strangest rung on the musical ladder, shaped like an octopus in plaid pants, sounding to some like a goose with its foot caught in an escalator and played during history’s ...

Vivien Williams received the Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award (BARS) in 2012. She is affiliated with Edinburgh University’s Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and with the ...