Catticloo - Shetland Accordion & Fiddle Festival 2008

Catticloo playing a set of reels at Shetland Accordion & Fiddle Festival 2008.
Lead Accordion - Caroline Watt (Irvine)
Fiddles - Pauline Irvine & Linda Gair (Irvine)
2nd Box - Jim Halcrow
Piano - Margaret Robertson
Drums - Graham Jamieson

[@shandfan]

I watched also Callum Irvine Band! Must be any relations?? And thanks for posting(see below)

[@caazirvine07]

He’s my son and the two fiddlers are my sisters. Thanks for listening. ☺️

[@shandfan]

@@caazirvine07 Your non-stop and bright manner of playing and the designated tunes being fit for it brings me and many others glad and delighted in excitement..How come,you were never on Robbies TTF.One of the best bands EVER! We have been missing you!!!
Must confess...I am not that well up in matters of "Shetland" I know little of that scene.Only names I know are Jim Halcrow,Brian Gear,Peter Wood( the latter composer of the reel tune"The Inside Out Fish Eater",and this being a favourite for playing among several SDB's such as Allie MacCuish) and of course Willie Hunter,of whom I have an LP with his "Hamefahrers"(there was another group,which doesn't spring to mind currently,please help me remember) on an unusual label for the genre,..on Polydor.There you see.... just the greats score on this sort of labels.John Ellis also once did,but usually he recorded on Emerald.

[@caazirvine07]

@@shandfan awww thank you for your kind words, we loved playing together. We did a recording on TTF in October 2009 and were invited to do another one but family commitments meant I couldn’t do another one but hopefully get back to it soon. There are so many great bands in Shetland, da Hamefarers who I idolised, the Cullivoe, Alan Nicolson Band, da Fustra to name a few.
Thanks again. 🙂

[@shandfan]

@@caazirvine07 Hahaha...yes...it was the Cullivoe,that did not spring to mind! And just that band I know from TTF.
If interested...another thing is I have been listening to SDB's from the mid 50s on and In Aberdeen they know about that.Robbie(meantime retired and Gary Innes stepped in) and Jennifer know about my doings.Starting to listen to the MW(810) to BBC Home Service,being a very weak transmitter.(crackles and fadings all along)I was told,even in London they could hardly listen to BBC HS (later BBC RS)Let alone in HOLLAND,WHERE I AM BASED.Yes...a Dutch ambassador of Scottish Dance Music,ask.Robbie.And in summer months I could listen not at all(not being dark)
However...I am no friend of BBC.This concerning their attitude towards Scottish accordion musik.They do not want to support this any longer,in order to make way for that stupid "Celtic Confectionaries"as it is called in initial circles.And this "wisdom"has been confirmed by my 2 Edinburgh friends,both of course great fans of the Tim Wright Band.Well.....!

[@shandfan]

Addition...before answering I had contact with Paul Anderson.I told him about knowing his words.."the watering down of the Scottish (dance)scene".
It has everything to do with BBC.But BBC will lose the battle.Mark my words!