The Battlefield Band Highland Circus was great. I only got to one, around twenty years ago. Held in Ullapool on the North West coast of Scotland, it provided an opportunity for the band to bring back together many former members (I guess they had already been going about ten years by then, with many line-up changes behind them). They also brought in many other artists to this remote area of the Highlands. Allan Taylor was so impressed by the journey across from Inverness he was inspired to write a song about it.

The weekend was fore-shortened by the local observance of the Sabbath (and if you hadn't already bought petrol, you were stuck!) but the local hostelry the Ceilidh Place was still open for business throughout the Sunday, so it wasn't as Spartan an experience as it might have been.

Ross