GALLERY: Outtakes

...intentionally and unintentionally funny...

As we don't take ourselves quite seriously and have lots of fun with our music, there are funny moments again and again. We're able to catch some of them and would like to share them with you. For more funny things and oddities, read also our favourite anecdotes and visit our humour page.

Our difficult band name... Higbroad, High_Road(s), Highbroad, Highthroats, ... ./images/outtakes_bandname.jpg

Kilt + swing = no good idea ... ./images/outtakes_schaukel.gif

In front of the trousers shop "Hosenecke" - just without trousers ./images/outtakes_hosenecke.jpg

Fun with our drummer offspring - just off the old block ./images/outtakes_drummer_fun2015.jpg

Either he liked our music or he was just happy to see us ./images/outtakes_sporran-erregt.jpg

"Play desired" - we just got more comfortable... ./images/outtakes_spielen-erwuenscht.jpg

"Laddies or Ladies" - unclear signs everywhere... ./images/outtakes_toilettenschild.jpg

"Please don't play against the wall" - provocative isn't it? ./images/outtakes_wand.jpg

"Quick March" ./images/outtakes_quickmarch.gif

"Just feeling not so manly at the moment" ./images/outtakes_sporran.jpg

Just let the instruments alone for a few minutes, now there's offspring... ./images/outtakes_smallpipe.jpg

Peekaboo, where's Sandra? ./images/outtakes_sandra.gif

Improvisation is everything! ./images/outtakes_snareboden.jpg

Think Pink ./images/outtakes_pink.jpg

Stefan and his bass drum ./images/outtakes_stefans-bass.jpg

1996: our first flyer - of course "Highroad" is misspelled... was clear ./images/outtakes_1stFlyer.jpg

Some of our favourite anecdotes:

"Now we're proudly present the HOTROD Pipes & Drums" - after marching-in, Paddy sees the writing on the bass drum and corrects: "Sorry people, the guys are named Highroad Pipes & Drums - they certainly think 'Paddy is an arsehole' " (Paddy Smith)

Plan was as follows: We welcome bride and groom in front of the church, after champagne reception we march behind the horse-drawn carriage until reaching the pub.
And this is how it really happened: We managed to stay about 10m behind the carriage as the horses took to one's heels... soon after that the carriage got out of our range of sight and we were still standing there...

After our performance on the stage (Highland Cathedral as last tune), the drummer of the next band asked us: "The rhythm of the last tune was a bolero, right?" - "Yeah, exactly. Where do you know it from?" - "Bolero is known to everyone - one can have great sex with this rhythm" -

"We are marching through the garden center, then out of the door and outside on the parking lot into a half circle. Just easy." - Of coarse our pipemajor got lost in the aisles and found the only dead end! Luckily we practised counter march

Surprising gig: We drove a bit away for the location into the "boonies" to warm up and tune the instruments, so we don't disturb anybody... We see an old abandoned tool shed in the middle of a field and think: "Perfect, shadow". As soon as the pipers have begun, a man appeared from inside the shed with four beers in this hand: "Please play Amazing Grace for me..."

Gig inquiry: "... and could you start quiet and become slowly louder? ..."
Answer: "... regarding the quiet start and slowly becoming louder: We could begin from a kilometer distance and march in your direction ..."