Bill Telfer wrote:
Aye I've heard Ian Maclaughlan play it years ago at Auchtermuchty
Festival
(on the platform in the town market place) - a very nice a TMSA
festival
where people take over the square for dancing) and he announced it as
The
Dark Island. As often happens som
Today Colin Hill wrote:
Yeah, Dark Island is a nice example of drone clashing. Then again, it
was written for one drone sound so I suppose that accounts for it. Usr
the ones that sound best.
Hello Colin
...or indeed no drones at all!! The tune was originally composed for
the
The tune was written in 1958 by Iain McLachlan and was called "Dr Mackay's
Farewell to Creagorry" in honour of a local doctor. It only became The Dark
Island after the use by the BBC.
Ian Lawther
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