Day 4 And so we climb in to the TO tour bus, our plushest vehicle yet in full black with matt finish bonnet, and head to Auld Reekie in search of enlightenment. It’s the Teviot tonight, a good opportunity to ramp it up for the student masses. We are in the debating hall on the third floor, tough get-in, never …
Tour Blog
Well of a sort… TO on tour! Day one Tonight it’s Perth as part of the Gordon Duncan National Treasure concert. Gordon was a massive inspiration for the band, always great to be part of this night. The evening is being MD’d by our very own Ross Ainslie and features piping legends Paddy Keenan and Fred Morrison amongst others. It …
Spiral Earth bigging us up again
Spiral Earth – online home of everything folky – are on our side again. We are very grateful for their support. The Treacherous Orchestra is awesome – and that’s not a term we use lightly – Having just released their debut album in February 2012 they have gone to being one of the best festival acts out there. They were …
Shrewsbury Folk Festival Stormer
We had a stormer of a gig at Shrewsbury Folk Festival attested by a couple of reviews that follow: from the Shropshire Star: Blistering set as curtain falls on Shrewsbury Folk Festival A blistering live set from stand-in headliners The Treacherous Orchestra brought the curtain down on Shrewsbury’s most successful folk festival to date. and from Folk and Roots “The Treacherous …
TO on Mike Harding BBC2 Highlight Show from Cambridge Folk Fest
Take a listen to this at about 28 min on the Mike Harding’s BBC Radio 2 extended Highlight Show for the Cambridge Folk Festival. Mike says of TO: “an incredible performance… had the entire crowd leaping up and down!” not bad really!
Fantastic Cambridge Folk Festival 2012 review from Virtual Festivals
‘An electrifying array of musical talent’… With a magical Celtic blend of fairytale nonsense, Treacherous Orchestra march on stage with all the curiosity of a Victorian vaudeville act. Top hats and bagpipes are the order of the night as the twelve piece Scottish-Irish folk band whip the audience up into a wide-eyed frenzied melting pot of happiness. Treacherous Orchestra ease …
Cambridge Folk Festival gig live on Sky Arts
Hi folks, We’ve just had confirmation from Sky Arts that our performance at the Cambridge Folk Festival will be going out Live on Sky Arts tomorrow night (Fri 27th July). The show starts at 10pm and is hosted by Zoë Ball and Mark Radcliffe. Can you all spread the news for us on this one which will be especially for …
Review from FolkWorld
Treacherous Orchestra “Origins” Navigator Records, 2012 You could fill this review by simply listing the line-up of this 11-piece trad big band, so take your time now … No, I make it short and simple: from the land that brought us Martyn Bennett,[36] Croft No. Five,[30] Peatbog Faeries,[46] Salsa Celtica[26] and Shooglenifty[41] comes another trad fusion outfit. Featuring highly talented Scottish (and Irish) artists, almost …
Trad Award Winner Innes Watson, Instrumentalist of the Year on BBC Alba show
Music and chat featuring Trad Award Winner Innes Watson, Instrumentalist of the Year. Programme Presented by Julie Fowlis and shown on BBC Alba. Playing with Innes were other TO members Adam Sutherland, Ali Hutton and Duncan Lyall. – many bands within one band!!