by Gordon Mackay | Sep 1, 2021 | Doric TV, Music / Culture
Doric TV continues it’s association with Cruden Bay Folk Club, and once again we are delighted to present this footage of their first live session in 18 months. Club regulars and friends gathered in the beer garden of the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel at 4:00 pm on a...
by Gordon Mackay | Aug 11, 2021 | Doric Blog, Doric Blog - People / Culture, Uncategorised
During lock down I was delighted to welcome Jill from Doric Tv to the studio for a socially distance blether. The Garden was looking in fine fettle perfect for a chat about the studio, workshop our creative activities and the Mill in Peterhead. It was a great...
by Gordon Mackay | Aug 5, 2021 | Doric TV, Language / Culture, People / Culture, Walking / Well-being
5th August 2021 Doric TV are pleased to share their submission for the Doric Film Festival, which was 1 of 12 short films showcased in this year’s event. A collaboration between Jill McWilliam, Gordon Mackay, and Debbie Leslie created this poignant piece built...
by Gordon Mackay | Aug 2, 2021 | Doric TV, Music / Culture
Doric TV continues it’s association with Cruden Bay Folk Club, and once again we are delighted to showcase their latest Virtual Club Night. The evening followed the same format as their actual club nights when before the Covid lockdown and ongoing constraints...
by Gordon Mackay | Aug 1, 2021 | Press Release
Cruden Bay and the history of the oil industry Doric TV has produced a trio of fascinating short videos marking both 50 years since plans to bring North Sea oil to shore at Cruden Bay by pipeline were announced, and 100 years since the first onshore oil field was...
by Gordon Mackay | Aug 1, 2021 | Doric Blog, Doric Blog - RGU Students
Around two years ago I climbed my first Munro, Mount Keen, and since then I haven’t been able to stop. For those who don’t know, a Munro in Scotland is a mountain that is 3,000 feet above sea level. There are 282 of them, and those who decide to tackle these beats...
by Gordon Mackay | Jul 17, 2021 | Doric TV, Language / Culture, Uncategorised
17th July 2021 Roy Stewart has submitted his video – The story of Torry, Aberdeen for viewers of Doric TV To watch the video, click the play button on the section below. Join the Doric TV Community today We very much hope you will join our Doric TV Community by...
by Gordon Mackay | Jul 14, 2021 | Doric TV, People / Culture
Episode 1 13th July 2021 This first of 3 episodes telling the story of Cruden Bay’s connection to Energy Transitions and Oil industry History covers an introduction to past and present energy transitions together with the story of initial oil exploration...
by Gordon Mackay | Jul 14, 2021 | Doric Blog - People / Culture
It has been a real pleasure to work with Jill on producing this great little video series also featured in the Doric TV pages of this website (click here to view). She does a wonderful job of putting people at ease and getting them talking. I hope this story will be...
by Gordon Mackay | Jul 9, 2021 | Doric TV, People / Culture
9th July 2021 Ruth McEvilly and her husband Ged have built up the Compass Rose Studio, Longside near Peterhead over many years. Ruth formally a designer at the former Peterhead Kirkburn Woollen Mill, took the initiative to salvage the remnants of the tweed from the...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 24, 2021 | Albaroot Chronology
Here’s 3 tracks from my soon to be released album ‘Vackomaggi’ ‘Alone Together’ and ‘We Want More’ are at opposite ends of despair with one saying that nothing can save us now so fit will ye dee? and the other end of the spectrum with We Want More’! Seems to be the...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 23, 2021 | Albaroot Chronology
On 27 November 1786 the poet Robert Burns postponed his emigration to Jamaica. Financially ruined from a combination of his father’s death, and poor soil on the farm he shared with his brother Gilbert, the poet was close to starvation.However, a doctor friend who had...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 22, 2021 | Albaroot Chronology
This is a companion album to Roots | Rock | Rabbie with a section of alternative mixes which although never made it to the original album, we felt were interesting enough to put together on this In Dub version of the original. All instruments and arrangements – Clark...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 21, 2021 | Albaroot Chronology
Here are the 13 psalms, a wee collection from when I first started recording digitally so I think around 2001, the usual politically influenced stuff. Some post twin towers stuff with ‘He disna care aboot love’ and ‘Gie some fool the blame. I tried recording very...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 20, 2021 | Albaroot Chronology
Rej Forte – Digital drums, keys, percussion, overall productionClark Innes – Lead vocal – Acoustic guitar, harmonies – chanterAlison Bradstreet Burns – Lead vocal, harmoniesDan Foster – Lead guitars Pick it UpPick it up dubHelp me natureFit sideFit dubSoon...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 20, 2021 | Albaroot Chronology
Naturally (Nature’s Fire ©C.Innes 1998) A wee bit of background to the song ‘Naturally’ featured on this album is that whilst we were on tour doon in England in the mid 90s (last century)! Our roadie was a right folkie and he introduced me to the songs of Robert Burns...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 20, 2021 | Doric TV, Language / Culture
20th June 2021 Thank you to Lesley Sim from Huntly, who took the time and effort to send in her lockdown poems for Doric TV. During the lockdown, Lesley went out and about and found herself writing about the little pleasures she found which took the intensity of the...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 20, 2021 | Doric TV, Music / Culture
18th May 2021 Doric TV presents – Singer-Songwriter Elphen – Ellen Bain from Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire shares some of her unique songwriting with Doric TV. Through difficult times in her life. To watch the video, click the play button on the section below....
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 19, 2021 | Albaroot Chronology
The intended name of this CD was ‘Pass Ower the Bucky’, however I left Rej (my good friend and died in the wool Englishman) in charge of printing the CD cover etc. and ‘Pass Ower the Bucky’ became ‘Pass Owa’ the Bucky’ as this was how he heard it, by the...
by Gordon Mackay | Jun 17, 2021 | Albaroot Chronology
I had a brilliant stroke of luck finding these tracks, and so happy I did as I have’na heard them for years. These were recorded in the famous Cava studios in Glasgow, in 1994 I think. The back story is that Allison, one of the backing vocalists got badly...
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