GLASGOW. OVO Hydro.
THE STAGE IS SET FOR HOOLIE IN THE HYDRO AS SALES BREAK 10,000
Hoolie in the Hydro organiser and Runrig’s Iain Bayne talk about the Hoolie in the Hydro.
Watch Hoolie as Hydro organiser, musician and broadcaster Gary Innes, Scottish singing sensation Julie Fowlis and Runrig’s Iain Bayne and Brian Hurren perform aheafd of the upcoming event.
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The Hoolie in the Hydro is set to be Scotland’s single biggest night of traditional music to have ever taken place with over 10,000 tickets sold.
The inaugural event which took place last December was a watershed moment for the scene and saw huge demand and overwhelmingly positive feedback.
The Ovo Hydro in Glasgow will host this year’s Hoolie in the Hydro on Saturday 9th December 2023, with an all-star line-up featuring some of the top names on the Scottish music scene.
Organised by renowned musician and broadcaster Gary Innes and hosted by Julie Fowlis and Coinneach MacLeod aka The Hebridean Baker, the special night of Scottish music will include a special collaboration to celebrate 50 Years of Runrig, featuring an array of special guests.
Iconic Runrig drummer Iain Bayne and keyboard player Brian Hurren will lead the celebrations, with celebrated singer Julie Fowlis, Wolfstone founding member and fiddle player Duncan Chisholm, and Gary Innes, among those joining them on stage to celebrate Runrig’s incredible 50th anniversary milestone. The musicians were last on stage together with the band at Runrig’s Farewell Concert in Stirling in 2018. Gary also features on the cover of Runrig’s 2007 album Everything You See. Legendary founding members of Capercaillie Karen Matheson and Donald Shaw will also join the musical celebration.
The line-up for Hoolie in the Hydro 2023 also features Scottish supergroup Mànran, Celtic rockers Wolfstone, festival favourites Trail West, Skerryvore lead singer Alec Dalglish, Britain’s Got Talent sensation Cammy Barnes, social media singing sensation NATI. (FKA Nati Dreddd), and Irish musician Éamon Doorley.
Hot off the heels of their World Pipe Band Championships win, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band will be entertaining the Hydro crowd and DJ Paddy Callaghan will be keeping the party going between acts with his infamous ‘Trad with Pad’ sets.
THE STAGE IS SET FOR HOOLIE IN THE HYDRO AS SALES BREAK 10,000
Hoolie in the Hydro organiser and Runrig’s Iain Bayne talk about the Hoolie in the Hydro.
Watch Hoolie as Hydro organiser, musician and broadcaster Gary Innes, Scottish singing sensation Julie Fowlis and Runrig’s Iain Bayne and Brian Hurren perform aheafd of the upcoming event.
.
The Hoolie in the Hydro is set to be Scotland’s single biggest night of traditional music to have ever taken place with over 10,000 tickets sold.
The inaugural event which took place last December was a watershed moment for the scene and saw huge demand and overwhelmingly positive feedback.
The Ovo Hydro in Glasgow will host this year’s Hoolie in the Hydro on Saturday 9th December 2023, with an all-star line-up featuring some of the top names on the Scottish music scene.
Organised by renowned musician and broadcaster Gary Innes and hosted by Julie Fowlis and Coinneach MacLeod aka The Hebridean Baker, the special night of Scottish music will include a special collaboration to celebrate 50 Years of Runrig, featuring an array of special guests.
Iconic Runrig drummer Iain Bayne and keyboard player Brian Hurren will lead the celebrations, with celebrated singer Julie Fowlis, Wolfstone founding member and fiddle player Duncan Chisholm, and Gary Innes, among those joining them on stage to celebrate Runrig’s incredible 50th anniversary milestone. The musicians were last on stage together with the band at Runrig’s Farewell Concert in Stirling in 2018. Gary also features on the cover of Runrig’s 2007 album Everything You See. Legendary founding members of Capercaillie Karen Matheson and Donald Shaw will also join the musical celebration.
The line-up for Hoolie in the Hydro 2023 also features Scottish supergroup Mànran, Celtic rockers Wolfstone, festival favourites Trail West, Skerryvore lead singer Alec Dalglish, Britain’s Got Talent sensation Cammy Barnes, social media singing sensation NATI. (FKA Nati Dreddd), and Irish musician Éamon Doorley.
Hot off the heels of their World Pipe Band Championships win, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band will be entertaining the Hydro crowd and DJ Paddy Callaghan will be keeping the party going between acts with his infamous ‘Trad with Pad’ sets.
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00:00 [Music]
00:06 [Music]
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
01:50 [Music]
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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