I think what Run Rig shared with their music was a link with the culture they were brought up in. They made it cool to speak (Scots) Gaelic to lots of young people who used to think it was only a sign of backwardness. The pride they show with their music is something that everyone can aspire to - the only boundaries are what you let be put up. Alba Gu Brath!
I also have a very strong sense of the supernatural. Last night as I was consuming, I caught sight of Miriam O'Farrell outside on her porch and I thought to myself that I had seen her in another life. But then I remembered that it was actually the week before as she was selling carrots at the market.
Lucky you!!! I adore Runrig--especially the MacDonald brothers. Brilliant songwriters and musicians. A relatively new fan, I'm just beginning to distinguish Donnie's voice from Bruce's; in my humble opinion, they're both wonderfully gifted singers. Donnie's pure voice soars; Bruce's voice is earthy and gritty. But we mustn't overlook Rory--something about his voice tugs at my heart when he sings lead... Respect from an American lass!
I am Canadian of Scottish Highland ancestry and runrig is absolutely amazing I feel cheated we haven't heard of them sooner, payola is shit music, but runrig's music is timeless and fantastic or as I can say in Scottish Gaelic, Glay Glay Va!! I am thankful to almighty God for my Scottish origins, hello to all my Scottish brothers accross the sea.
AMEN, santiano42! Runrig's music is brilliant and universally appealing, transcending nationality, generations and politics! Love this song, this vid and this band... God bless Scotland and Runrig forever!
this song is pure heaven, I can imagine sitting on a cloud looking down to the earth below and remembering everything good that that life has to give, + it reminds me of an x girlfriend who I loved and should never have let go, This song is pure emotion.
There's something about Gaelic and it's related languages that I just love. I can't speak it but the sound is musical in of itself. That bit with the drums around 3 min into the song sounds a bit like it's Native American.
@icebear1405 Bin deutsch aber lebe seit einigen Jahren in Schottland. Entdecke jeden Tag auf's neue wie unbeschreiblich schoen dieses Land ist. Habe Runrig in den 90er Jahren oft live gesehen und vermisse die alten Donnie Tage schrecklich. Ich weiss das die meisten songs von Rory und Callum geschrieben worden sind und ich mag den schraegen Gesang von Rory. Zusammen mit Donnie's Stimme war es dann einfach magisch. Vielleich besinnen sie sich ja und machen noch mal was zusammen.
Hi all you scot' you have my respect. And you have all reason to be proude of your land. I'm very happy that our lovely Danish Royal family have got our two countries closer, when Mary was merried to crown prince Frederik. Even I'm from the northern part of Denmark, who has it's own flag (blue, with a green and orange cross)I'm trying to learn gaelic, it's diffelcult, but I'm getting better, with big help from Runrigs music. And the best of all, my sweetheart is scotish. ;-) Have a nice day. ;-)
I was to the Runrig concert yesterday in Frederikshavn (DK) And it hurt me a lot, that they only played one gaelic song. If that is their plan, I whish that Donnie was back in Runrig. Anyway it was a great concert. :-)
I heard one of the lead singers is from Cape Breton Island, Canada. Anyone know? I think they are brilliant. And still going strong after all these years! Visited the Outer Hebrides a few years back. All the young people there really look up to these guys.
@@pauledwards5573 Pete Wishart who's an SNP (Scottish independence party) MP gave me free use of some lyrics for my book The Summer King. Such a sweetheart, I couldn't pay the huge sum - for me at the time - that his recording company was asking for. And Donnie was a Labour candidate & gave up the offer of a safe seat to almost win in his highland area. Great men all round!!!
I TOTALLY agree with you about Rory's voice. It's beautiful and heartfelt! I think he should do more of the lead vocals now, like he used to on their earlier gaelic albums. I think the MacDonald brothers make Runrig!
Yeah Rory MacDonald has the best voice. It's beautiful and heartfelt! I think he should do more of the lead vocals now, like he used to on their earlier gaelic albums. I think the MacDonald brothers make Runrig! Does anyone know if they are married with families in Skye or what?
@saltydog16 Today, this is not Runrig. Nothing against the new Singer. He tries the best, but please. please let Donnie come back!! He was the Voice of Runrig!! A former Fan, until Donnie comes back!! But than, Runrig forever!!
Thanks..I've been meaning to do that (when I've got the cash!) Yeh just got their dvd and on the extra bits it tells us Rory is married with 2 daughters and Calum has two daughters and one son. Great username bye the way, Siol Ghoraidh is my absolute favourite Runrig song!
Two lovely songs - I can't wait to get this DVD! (Typical human beings huh, chasing the unknown with guns and sticks... ah well!) I wish they'd come play Canada!!!!
Where have you been hiding Steven...lol Been following Runrig since the 80's, no other band comes close to them.... :-) I'm in this video, taken many years ago...lol Get well soon Malcolm, see ya soon pal... xxxxx
Yes there is Norse influence in Scotland, it's hard to put everything in a TH-cam comment. Well I never said it was "always there", I think Celtic languages (in the Q form) arrived 500 BC or thereabouts in Scotland but I'm not sure (don't think any one is). And since it's IndoEuropean it has to have come from the Caucuses around 4,000 years ago! Linguists do now think though that Q Celtic was first and so Gaelic was already in Scotland before the new P shift (Picitish(British) from the SE.
My Grandfather was a Macdonald originally from Sleat and he married a Macdonald from North Uist[ my granny obviously ]..interesting because his family were never really accepted completely ... maybe this goes back to that battle they talked about...I'm actually related to Calum and Rory in some way...
I'm Scots as are all my family going back generations. Love all of Runrig's work, listened to it for years, but as I'm from the southwest (Ayrshire, although generations back from Argyll), was never exposed to gaelic / taught it at school. Does anybody know a good internet source of the english translations of Runrigs gaelic music as its kinda crazy that after all these years of appreciating their music I still struggle to grasp the lyrics of the gaelic songs ..
@Newbattle2007 Hätte mich auch gewundert. Aber gesungen hat Donnie sie nun mal (auch in einigen Liedern Rory), ich glaube, das waren die beiden Einzigen, die richtig gälisch singen konnten. Düsseldorf, Loreley, Kölner Tanzbrunnen (da konnten selbst die Kölner gälisch singen - hörst Du bei Alba auf Transmitting), etc.- überall dabei gewesen. Und jedesmal genial. Aber es kann eben kein anderer "Loch Lomond" singen. Hoffe sie besinnen sich und holen Donnie zurück. Dann sofort ab in den CD- Shop !
great band, i only knew runrig last year and since then i've been thinking to my self, where the hell have they been all this years? this is an old footage with Donnie Munro, just look at Calum with black hair... :)
You're forgetting the major Norse input to Gaelic Scotland. The Goraidh of the song was Guðrøðr Crobh-bhán. Several important clans claim him as their ancestor. Scots Gaelic was 'made in Scotland' by mixing Middle Irish from Ireland with Norse, plus Pictish and Brittish. You don't have to pretend it was 'always there' to make it Scottish now. Everybody and everything originally came from somewhere else, just as there are lots of influences in the music. It's the final mix that gives the blas.
Hi, Joanie--It's Debra, your "competition" for the MacDonald brothers, LOL! So you've also learned that they're taken--O whatever shall we do??? We'll always have TH-cam (and our dreams!) ;D xxx
@tinasiig no defence.. but it was Donnie´s voice what made them great. Of course Bruce is a good singer, not bad. And I wish, Donnie would come back. And the reasons, why Donnie left the band may be his personal, but i´m missing him (excuse me for my bad english)
@this0033 The problem with Bruce is that he's not Scottish. He's Canadian and has this country and western music tembre in his voice that I can't cope with. For me Runrig were a symbol of Scotland and they've lost a part of this when they decided to have a singer from a different cultural backgrund. It was never about having the best or a perfect singer. It was about identity and singing in gaelic and I can't explain what else. When Donnie left, they lost their soul.
I have to agree with the comment about the band since Donnie's departure. I've nothing against Bruce, but Donnie was the mainstay of the band. They haven't been the same since he left.
@icebear1405 No offence... but it was Donnie who left the band to become a politician... Imo Bruce is a good singer too, diferent than Donnie, definately, but not bad.
I think what Run Rig shared with their music was a link with the culture they were brought up in. They made it cool to speak (Scots) Gaelic to lots of young people who used to think it was only a sign of backwardness. The pride they show with their music is something that everyone can aspire to - the only boundaries are what you let be put up. Alba Gu Brath!
I also have a very strong sense of the supernatural. Last night as I was consuming, I caught sight of Miriam O'Farrell outside on her porch and I thought to myself that I had seen her in another life. But then I remembered that it was actually the week before as she was selling carrots at the market.
2022 still listening to Runrig, we were fortunate to see them In there hay day many times
It doesn't matter who sings the songs, Rory and Calum are deserve all the credit for being such fantastic song writers.
My papa was one of the men in the first song! It’s so nice to see him in this ! ❤️❤️❤️
This video is absolutely beautiful.
Much love to you all from Fife Scotland 🏴
Lucky you!!! I adore Runrig--especially the MacDonald brothers. Brilliant songwriters and musicians. A relatively new fan, I'm just beginning to distinguish Donnie's voice from Bruce's; in my humble opinion, they're both wonderfully gifted singers. Donnie's pure voice soars; Bruce's voice is earthy and gritty. But we mustn't overlook Rory--something about his voice tugs at my heart when he sings lead...
Respect from an American lass!
stumbled on this song via a drunk typo of "running crocodile" yesterday; glad I did!
... running crocodile. Thank you, I've gone mute with laughter!
😂😂
Are you still listening? I can never let this song go.
Tha gaol agam a' cluinntinn mo bhra`threan ann an Runrig ag seinne ann an Ga`idhlig, is toil leam e gu mo`r!!
...two brilliant songs...i love donnie and i am so sad that he is gone....but bruce is also a genius..
RUNRIG is GREAT!!!!
greetings from germany....
Runrig rules! If they do not resonate with you, stop trying! Go find what does! They are amazing!
I am Canadian of Scottish Highland ancestry and runrig is absolutely amazing I feel cheated we haven't heard of them sooner, payola is shit music, but runrig's music is timeless and fantastic or as I can say in Scottish Gaelic, Glay Glay Va!! I am thankful to almighty God for my Scottish origins, hello to all my Scottish brothers accross the sea.
My mother was scottish, it is only recently I have discovered my passion and roots for scotland, still never to late, lol.
14 years on how’s that going?
That’s great to hear . It’s a truly wonderful place . And as you say it’s never too late and you’ll always be welcome
Hope you made it over at some point , didn’t see it was 14 years ago 😮
love runrig love scotland forever greetings from german capital and his most faithful Hertha BSC and especially tartan army supporter alba gu brath
💕
Get over it, Donnie AND Bruce are both awesome. All things must change........
Wish I'd of heard of Runrig long before I did, Love them feel cheated.
AMEN, santiano42! Runrig's music is brilliant and universally appealing, transcending nationality, generations and politics!
Love this song, this vid and this band...
God bless Scotland and Runrig forever!
alba gu brath kind regards from tartan army + hertha bsc supporter from berlin
scotland we love ye runrig one of the greatest
love Runrig
City of lights live...... I used to love listening to this concert on video tape growing up about 30 years ago
this song is pure heaven, I can imagine sitting on a cloud looking down to the earth below and remembering everything good that that life has to give, + it reminds me of an x girlfriend who I loved and should never have let go, This song is pure emotion.
All that is Scotland god bless u all thank u runrig
In a single word 'FANTASTIC'
This is beautiful Donnies voice has power and authority yet he can be as smooth as velvet in some of the awesome mellow galic laments!
An dha sealladh,sgoinnnel!
An cnoc feille!
The two ways of looking ,now and into the future.
My mothers mother was Macdonald from Uist ( clanranald) her father Macdonald from Sleat. ~ That's why we're all mental.
Runrig should tour North America. Both Canada AND the US have a LOT of Scottish ancestral connections. Including me~
runrig, greatest band EVER
I'm as English as they come - but the first live gig I went to was Runrig, and they blew my socks off. Used to have this video. Brilliant band.
😂❤️
Mon the Scots
Blew my socks off is about the most English thing you could say 😂
Always remember that Hate is easy...
Love is hard.....
He taught at my school in Edinburgh, Tynecastle High School, fae a Hibs fan.
U are second to none thanks for keeping the Gaelic alive
Alba gu brath .gracias por esa bellísima musica y...Escocia por siempre
❤️❤️❤️
Only just heard of this band and I love what I hear, could listen forever
I couldn't agree more with you rob Marshall
Great group. Donnie Munro has a magnificent voice.
Still listening going into 2020!!!
Linn gu linn, ainm gu ainm,
Clann domhnal gu brath,
5 mill air feadh an soaghal,
The best song ever
Hi :) I would hope that Runrig will continue to sing the Gaelic songs, so the language does not disappear.
Forever 🏴 👏👏👏 we ♥️♥️♥️
SIOL IRISH FOR SEED. TOP SOUNDS
There's something about Gaelic and it's related languages that I just love. I can't speak it but the sound is musical in of itself. That bit with the drums around 3 min into the song sounds a bit like it's Native American.
@icebear1405 Bin deutsch aber lebe seit einigen Jahren in Schottland. Entdecke jeden Tag auf's neue wie unbeschreiblich schoen dieses Land ist. Habe Runrig in den 90er Jahren oft live gesehen und vermisse die alten Donnie Tage schrecklich. Ich weiss das die meisten songs von Rory und Callum geschrieben worden sind und ich mag den schraegen Gesang von Rory. Zusammen mit Donnie's Stimme war es dann einfach magisch. Vielleich besinnen sie sich ja und machen noch mal was zusammen.
Hi all you scot' you have my respect. And you have all reason to be proude of your land. I'm very happy that our lovely Danish Royal family have got our two countries closer, when Mary was merried to crown prince Frederik. Even I'm from the northern part of Denmark, who has it's own flag (blue, with a green and orange cross)I'm trying to learn gaelic, it's diffelcult, but I'm getting better, with big help from Runrigs music. And the best of all, my sweetheart is scotish. ;-) Have a nice day. ;-)
What a tune - my dad would've absolutly loved it!
Runrig is playing at "Skovdalen" in Aalborg (Denmark) on August 13. 2016.... And i'll be there ... again....
My two Runrig favorite songs together!
Great video and great Rory's voice,
Greetings from Spain
Powerful!!!
Stop with the negative comments! They are both great vocalists!
Yup... A tune without doubt!
A man who does not know the names of his ancestors is like a mind without a memory, a tree without roots.
Yesterday you died 👌
I was to the Runrig concert yesterday in Frederikshavn (DK)
And it hurt me a lot, that they only played one gaelic song.
If that is their plan, I whish that Donnie was back in Runrig. Anyway it was a great concert. :-)
i love runrig and i love ireland this band is the greatest
Runrig are Scottish 🏴
My fave song of all time.....
Brilliant, Thanks craigrich. wish I,d been around years ago.
I heard one of the lead singers is from Cape Breton Island, Canada. Anyone know? I think they are brilliant. And still going strong after all these years! Visited the Outer Hebrides a few years back. All the young people there really look up to these guys.
O.R. Melling His name is Bruce Guthrie he joined the band in 1998 and yes he is from Nova Scotia
Bruce Guthrow who took over when Donnie left the group.
@@pauledwards5573 Pete Wishart who's an SNP (Scottish independence party) MP gave me free use of some lyrics for my book The Summer King. Such a sweetheart, I couldn't pay the huge sum - for me at the time - that his recording company was asking for. And Donnie was a Labour candidate & gave up the offer of a safe seat to almost win in his highland area. Great men all round!!!
I TOTALLY agree with you about Rory's voice. It's beautiful and heartfelt! I think he should do more of the lead vocals now, like he used to on their earlier gaelic albums. I think the MacDonald brothers make Runrig!
Hey joan any chance of a gallop?
Preserve your culture and heritage, Scotland. Don't end up like London!!!
Best version of both Love it
Brilliant song, Gàidhlig at its best
Yeah Rory MacDonald has the best voice. It's beautiful and heartfelt! I think he should do more of the lead vocals now, like he used to on their earlier gaelic albums. I think the MacDonald brothers make Runrig! Does anyone know if they are married with families in Skye or what?
superb = homesick
I love this! Thank You!
@saltydog16 Today, this is not Runrig. Nothing against the new Singer. He tries the best, but please. please let Donnie come back!! He was the Voice of Runrig!! A former Fan, until Donnie comes back!! But than, Runrig forever!!
Thanks..I've been meaning to do that (when I've got the cash!) Yeh just got their dvd and on the extra bits it tells us Rory is married with 2 daughters and Calum has two daughters and one son. Great username bye the way, Siol Ghoraidh is my absolute favourite Runrig song!
Two lovely songs - I can't wait to get this DVD!
(Typical human beings huh, chasing the unknown with guns and sticks... ah well!)
I wish they'd come play Canada!!!!
I prefer Rory singing Alba, but they all have songs that suit them best!
Where have you been hiding Steven...lol Been following Runrig since the 80's, no other band comes close to them.... :-)
I'm in this video, taken many years ago...lol
Get well soon Malcolm, see ya soon pal... xxxxx
One of Runrig's songs ever after 'S tu mo Leannan / Nightfall on Marsco
Zeitlos.... Timeless
WENT TO GIGS UMPTEEN TIMES. THEIR PERCUSSION THARR BARR. IONTACH
¿Que si me gustan? Me encantan!!! Ójala vengan a tocar aquí algún día...
It has always existed...
so damn thanks for this wonderful video
Yes there is Norse influence in Scotland, it's hard to put everything in a TH-cam comment. Well I never said it was "always there", I think Celtic languages (in the Q form) arrived 500 BC or thereabouts in Scotland but I'm not sure (don't think any one is). And since it's IndoEuropean it has to have come from the Caucuses around 4,000 years ago!
Linguists do now think though that Q Celtic was first and so Gaelic was already in Scotland before the new P shift (Picitish(British) from the SE.
Sorry guys but I like Bruce! Different I grant you but a much mellower mood thesedays.
My Grandfather was a Macdonald originally from Sleat and he married a Macdonald from North Uist[ my granny obviously ]..interesting because his family were never really accepted completely ... maybe this goes back to that battle they talked about...I'm actually related to Calum and Rory in some way...
FREEDOM
This reminds me of Uist.
Tha gradh agam ort Runrig
I'm Scots as are all my family going back generations. Love all of Runrig's work, listened to it for years, but as I'm from the southwest (Ayrshire, although generations back from Argyll), was never exposed to gaelic / taught it at school. Does anybody know a good internet source of the english translations of Runrigs gaelic music as its kinda crazy that after all these years of appreciating their music I still struggle to grasp the lyrics of the gaelic songs ..
@Newbattle2007 Hätte mich auch gewundert. Aber gesungen hat Donnie sie nun mal (auch in einigen Liedern Rory), ich glaube, das waren die beiden Einzigen, die richtig gälisch singen konnten. Düsseldorf, Loreley, Kölner Tanzbrunnen (da konnten selbst die Kölner gälisch singen - hörst Du bei Alba auf Transmitting), etc.- überall dabei gewesen. Und jedesmal genial. Aber es kann eben kein anderer "Loch Lomond" singen. Hoffe sie besinnen sich und holen Donnie zurück. Dann sofort ab in den CD- Shop !
@this0033
Runrig without Donnie is like U2 without Bono, or Unheilig without the Graf. They were so great!!
Hi dercarsus :-)
Then I MUST have a lot of scottish blood in my veins, even I'm danish, 'cause I CAN feel.
SUPERB-THANK YOU!
its in the eyebrows
great band, i only knew runrig last year and since then i've been thinking to my self, where the hell have they been all this years?
this is an old footage with Donnie Munro, just look at Calum with black hair... :)
i love it!
And weirdly a runrig fan for all their sins....
Try to order Runrig DVDs on musicscotland website. They helped me to send DVDs to Slovakia. U.S. must be without problem.
You're forgetting the major Norse input to Gaelic Scotland. The Goraidh of the song was Guðrøðr Crobh-bhán. Several important clans claim him as their ancestor. Scots Gaelic was 'made in Scotland' by mixing Middle Irish from Ireland with Norse, plus Pictish and Brittish. You don't have to pretend it was 'always there' to make it Scottish now. Everybody and everything originally came from somewhere else, just as there are lots of influences in the music. It's the final mix that gives the blas.
Hi, Joanie--It's Debra, your "competition" for the MacDonald brothers, LOL! So you've also learned that they're taken--O whatever shall we do??? We'll always have TH-cam (and our dreams!) ;D
xxx
@tinasiig no defence.. but it was Donnie´s voice what made them great. Of course Bruce is a good singer, not bad. And I wish, Donnie would come back. And the reasons, why Donnie left the band may be his personal, but i´m missing him (excuse me for my bad english)
I could be wrong but I heard that Calum's Donald is named after Donnie and one of Donnie's sons is named Calum in return.
Hey, Joanie--I was wondering the same, LOL!
Debra ;D
@this0033 The problem with Bruce is that he's not Scottish. He's Canadian and has this country and western music tembre in his voice that I can't cope with. For me Runrig were a symbol of Scotland and they've lost a part of this when they decided to have a singer from a different cultural backgrund. It was never about having the best or a perfect singer. It was about identity and singing in gaelic and I can't explain what else. When Donnie left, they lost their soul.
excellent :)
I have to agree with the comment about the band since Donnie's departure. I've nothing against Bruce, but Donnie was the mainstay of the band. They haven't been the same since he left.
@icebear1405 No offence... but it was Donnie who left the band to become a politician... Imo Bruce is a good singer too, diferent than Donnie, definately, but not bad.
@this0033 this is my oppinion too. they are not the same. Donnie has been runrig.