0:00:14 > 0:00:16Roaring through the gloaming -
0:00:16 > 0:00:19a diamond formation of Tornadoes and Typhoons
0:00:19 > 0:00:21from RAF Lossiemouth and Leuchars
0:00:21 > 0:00:26welcomes us to the 2012 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43The serried fanfare is William Walton's music
0:00:43 > 0:00:47from the 1955 Sir Laurence Olivier film Richard III.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:08 > 0:01:11The Massed Pipes and Drums surge through the great castle gates
0:01:11 > 0:01:15and across the drawbridge to the tune The Croft.
0:01:31 > 0:01:3314 bands are represented,
0:01:33 > 0:01:36drawn from across the Commonwealth, in this Diamond Jubilee year,
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and overseen by the maestro, Major Stephen Small,
0:01:39 > 0:01:44the director of Army bagpipe music and Highland drumming.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47The music has been selected to reflect activities
0:01:47 > 0:01:49across the croft in a year.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Crodh Chaillean, Colin's Cattle.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Proudly sporting the uniform of his antecedent regiment,
0:02:19 > 0:02:20the Royal Scots,
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Senior Drum Major Mick Hay, Royal Regiment of Scotland,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27leads the break into slow time.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29The Herding Song.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42The march, Cutting Bracken.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03The reel, Clean Pea Strae.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23And another reel, The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Here's a quirky reel, Na Goisidich, The Gossips.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18And a fresh and syncopated arrangement of yet another reel,
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Speed The Plough, closes this set.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- CHEERING AND APPLAUSE - Apart from his highly visible role,
0:04:38 > 0:04:40it's the Senior Drum Major's task
0:04:40 > 0:04:42to devise the beatings for the drummers.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47Pipes and drums, by the centre, quick march!
0:04:47 > 0:04:50We continue with a new tune by Major Stephen Small,
0:04:50 > 0:04:52The Seeds of Life.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Formed into a diamond in the rough,
0:05:29 > 0:05:31we continue with The Sheiling
0:05:31 > 0:05:35and later, a waltz of Major Stephen Small's devising,
0:05:35 > 0:05:36The Harvester's Lullaby.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Corporal Mark Lovell of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards,
0:05:59 > 0:06:01with his distinctive red and white bearskin,
0:06:01 > 0:06:04is the timekeeper for the Massed Pipes and Drums,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07and dovetails into the popular hornpipe, Harvest Home.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18The last two jigs are also new compositions.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Burning the Peat and Tilling the Land.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:06:41 > 0:06:44The Massed Pipes and Drums.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56Returning to the Esplanade are the pipes, drums and dancers
0:06:56 > 0:06:58of Queen Victoria School, Dunblane,
0:06:58 > 0:07:00along with Australian pipes and drums
0:07:00 > 0:07:02from the Scots College, Sydney.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03This is the first time
0:07:03 > 0:07:06that schools from the northern and southern hemispheres
0:07:06 > 0:07:10have performed together at the Edinburgh Tattoo.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24All of these tunes and the choreography
0:07:24 > 0:07:25celebrate the weaving traditions
0:07:25 > 0:07:29which are still an important rural industry in Scotland.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12These compositions
0:08:12 > 0:08:16by the Queen Victoria School Pipe Major Gordon Ross
0:08:16 > 0:08:19are named for the good broadcloth tradition of Tweed.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:08:47 > 0:08:49The Queen Victoria School and Scots College.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03With music from the animated motion picture Brave,
0:09:03 > 0:09:05penny whistle virtuoso Dinger Bell,
0:09:05 > 0:09:07from the Corps of Army Music,
0:09:07 > 0:09:12leads Patrick Doyle's inspired theme, Fate and Destiny.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Flight Lieutenant Matthew Little,
0:09:55 > 0:09:59Director of Music for the Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment,
0:09:59 > 0:10:01assembles a glittering tri-service ensemble.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Joining the soloists are the Minden Band of the Queen's Division,
0:10:07 > 0:10:09the bands of the Royal Air Force Regiment,
0:10:09 > 0:10:13Her Majesty's Royal Marines Scotland, the King's Division
0:10:13 > 0:10:16and the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Students from Stewart's Melville and Mary Erskine's colleges, Edinburgh,
0:11:00 > 0:11:03gather in the lee of the standing stones.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Pipers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland
0:12:37 > 0:12:40and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards add another texture.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55The music from Brave.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:12:57 > 0:13:03"John Barleycore was a hero bold Of noble enterprise
0:13:03 > 0:13:09"For if you do but taste his blood 'Twill make your courage rise."
0:13:09 > 0:13:12Accompanied by the band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland,
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Billy Forsyth's Tattoo Highland Dancers
0:13:15 > 0:13:18and the Canadiana Celtic Dancers, under Nicola Grant,
0:13:18 > 0:13:23dance up a portrayal of the creation of Scotland's most popular export...
0:13:23 > 0:13:25whisky.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52The music is an excerpt from a composition by Phamie Gow,
0:13:52 > 0:13:56a descendant of the great Scottish fiddler Niel Gow.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Having tossed the toasted malt and brewed the beer,
0:14:39 > 0:14:42which will eventually distil into the water of life,
0:14:42 > 0:14:44the malt men, or ladies in this case,
0:14:44 > 0:14:46dance a celebratory shovel dance.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50A sort of soft shoe shovel!
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Slainte mhath!
0:15:12 > 0:15:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:15:16 > 0:15:18From the big island down under
0:15:18 > 0:15:21comes a specially assembled composite band
0:15:21 > 0:15:24of the Australian Army, Navy and Air Force
0:15:24 > 0:15:28with an energetic display of what makes Australia's music great.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36To open, The Parade of the Tall Ships
0:15:36 > 0:15:38under Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Lambie.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11A lot of show to get through, better get a move on!
0:16:15 > 0:16:20# Once a jolly swagman
0:16:20 > 0:16:24# Camped by a billabong... #
0:16:24 > 0:16:27The singers are Corporal Debra Cotton,
0:16:27 > 0:16:32musician Mark Nivet and able seaman Stephanie Monk.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36# And he sang as he watched
0:16:36 > 0:16:42# As he watched and waited till his billy boiled
0:16:43 > 0:16:49# You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
0:16:49 > 0:16:54# Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
0:16:54 > 0:16:58# You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me
0:16:58 > 0:17:05# And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
0:17:05 > 0:17:11# You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me. #
0:17:11 > 0:17:15And from Banjo Paterson to Kylie Minogue.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22# I'm spinning around move out of my way
0:17:22 > 0:17:26# I know you're feeling me cos you like it this
0:17:26 > 0:17:29# And breaking it down I'm not the same
0:17:29 > 0:17:32# I know you're feeling me cos you like it like this
0:17:32 > 0:17:36# Traded in some sorrow for some joy that I borrowed
0:17:36 > 0:17:39# From back in the day
0:17:39 > 0:17:44# Threw away my old clothes got myself a better wardrobe
0:17:44 > 0:17:45# I've got something to say
0:17:45 > 0:17:50# I'm through with the past Ain't no point in looking back
0:17:50 > 0:17:53# Your future will be
0:17:53 > 0:17:57# And did I forget to mention that I've found a new direction
0:17:57 > 0:18:00# And it means back to me
0:18:00 > 0:18:04# You kiss me, I'm falling
0:18:04 > 0:18:08# Can you hear me calling?
0:18:08 > 0:18:11# You touch me, I want you
0:18:11 > 0:18:15# Feels like I've always known you
0:18:15 > 0:18:18# On a night like this
0:18:18 > 0:18:22- # I want to stay for ever - Stay for ever
0:18:22 > 0:18:24# On a night like this
0:18:24 > 0:18:28# Just want to be together. #
0:18:28 > 0:18:32CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:18:52 > 0:19:00# Some day we'll all be together once more
0:19:00 > 0:19:07# When all of the ships come back to your shore
0:19:07 > 0:19:13# I feel like something that I've always known
0:19:13 > 0:19:17# I still call Australia
0:19:17 > 0:19:20# I still call Australia
0:19:20 > 0:19:30# I still call Australia
0:19:31 > 0:19:37# Home
0:19:37 > 0:19:41# Australia home
0:19:41 > 0:19:44# Australia home. #
0:19:44 > 0:19:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:19:47 > 0:19:49The band of the Australian Defence Force.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52You wait all year for a Highland dance act
0:19:52 > 0:19:54and then three come along at once!
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Representing Scotland's proud tradition of heavy industry,
0:19:59 > 0:20:02the castle becomes a foundry
0:20:02 > 0:20:03as Cheryl Roach
0:20:03 > 0:20:06and the ground-breaking OzScot Dancers from Australia
0:20:06 > 0:20:10now wow us with an energetic performance entitled Metal.
0:20:15 > 0:20:20The music is by a Andrew Wilkie, the renowned Tap Dogs composer.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:21:50 > 0:21:52The OzScot Highland Dancers.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Fresh from their base in Naples,
0:22:00 > 0:22:03the United States Naval Forces Europe Band
0:22:03 > 0:22:05with Anchors Aweigh.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38Perhaps the most famous US sailor of all, Popeye the Sailorman.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41A guy who knows a thing or two about tattoos!
0:23:04 > 0:23:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:23:06 > 0:23:09As the dark night draws in in Gotham city,
0:23:09 > 0:23:10it's time for Batman.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:23:39 > 0:23:43With the Love Theme from Superman, "Can You Read My Mind?",
0:23:43 > 0:23:45it's the quite supersonic Colin Reichow -
0:23:45 > 0:23:49Petty Officer second class, trumpeter first class.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35APPLAUSE
0:25:33 > 0:25:36The United States Naval Forces Europe Band
0:25:36 > 0:25:38under Lieutenant David Latour.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Always fresh and innovative,
0:25:46 > 0:25:49the Top Secret Drum Corps from Basel, in Switzerland,
0:25:49 > 0:25:53present a display designed around the idea of the digital age.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:07 > 0:27:09CHEERING
0:27:20 > 0:27:22ALL: Top, top, top, top secret!
0:28:29 > 0:28:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:28:59 > 0:29:02Top Secret's members are highly dedicated, with diverse day jobs -
0:29:02 > 0:29:06bankers, civil servants, factory workers -
0:29:06 > 0:29:09and perfection like this does not come overnight.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11THEY ALL SHOUT
0:29:40 > 0:29:42ALL: Ah!
0:29:42 > 0:29:45CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:30:20 > 0:30:23APPLAUSE
0:30:48 > 0:30:52CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:31:25 > 0:31:27CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:31:46 > 0:31:48LOUD CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:31:48 > 0:31:51The Top Secret drum Corps of Basel - unbeatable!
0:31:53 > 0:31:56From one perennial favourite to another.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59Rhythm, elegance and precision have always been the watchwords
0:31:59 > 0:32:03of his Majesty the King of Norway's Guards Band and Drill Team.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06Entering to The Guards' March.
0:32:35 > 0:32:36All these young men and women
0:32:36 > 0:32:39are serving their one year's National Service,
0:32:39 > 0:32:42but membership of the courteous and disciplined King's Guard
0:32:42 > 0:32:47is a badge of honour which they will carry for the rest of their lives.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40The plumed bowler hat
0:33:40 > 0:33:44was copied from the hat of the Italian Bersaglieri -
0:33:44 > 0:33:46troops that so impressed King Harald's great-grandmother
0:33:46 > 0:33:51that she insisted the Norwegian guards be similarly hatted in 1860.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00APPLAUSE
0:34:11 > 0:34:15CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:34:28 > 0:34:30CROWD MURMURS
0:34:33 > 0:34:34APPLAUSE
0:34:53 > 0:34:57GUNFIRE AND GASPING
0:35:04 > 0:35:05This piece of music
0:35:05 > 0:35:09is said to have been composed by King Henry VIII of England,
0:35:09 > 0:35:11Pastime With Good Company.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:36:36 > 0:36:37ALL THE SOLDIERS SHOUT
0:36:37 > 0:36:40CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:36:40 > 0:36:42Die Kongens Garde, from Norway.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48In this Diamond Jubilee year,
0:36:48 > 0:36:51the tattoo begins its salute to Her Majesty the Queen
0:36:51 > 0:36:54with a medley of music from the British Isles.
0:36:54 > 0:36:59The Massed Military Bands start off with The Rolling Green of Ireland.
0:37:34 > 0:37:35Killaloe.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58And so to Wales, the land of song, with Men of Harlech.
0:38:50 > 0:38:54And to Scotland by way of the high road and the low road.
0:39:09 > 0:39:11And the Road to the Isles.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50There Will Always Be An England.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00The 2012 tattoo Principal Director of Music
0:40:00 > 0:40:04is Lieutenant Colonel Bob Meldrum MBE,
0:40:04 > 0:40:07who is also Principal Director of Music of the British Army.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:40:20 > 0:40:22It's now time for the overseas military bands to join -
0:40:22 > 0:40:26each with their own tribute to the Diamond Jubilee.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29Leading the way is the United States Naval Forces Europe Band
0:40:29 > 0:40:33with a march, Stars and Stripes Forever.
0:40:53 > 0:40:58The Australian Defence Force Band, Along the Road to Gundagai.
0:41:25 > 0:41:29And the King of Norway's guards band with His Majesty the King's March.
0:42:03 > 0:42:05Lieutenant Colonel Bob Meldrum MBE,
0:42:05 > 0:42:09Principal Director of Music of the 2012 tattoo,
0:42:09 > 0:42:13now leads the Massed Bands in a new arrangement by Mac McDermott
0:42:13 > 0:42:18of Michael Korb and Ulrich Roever's now almost mandatory piece
0:42:18 > 0:42:22first performed at the Waldbuhne in West Berlin in 1986...
0:42:23 > 0:42:26..Highland Cathedral with the Massed Pipes and Drums.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36LOUD CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:44:10 > 0:44:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:44:13 > 0:44:15Now members of the cast.
0:44:16 > 0:44:21The OzScot Highland Dancers and the Queen Victoria School, Dunblane.
0:44:23 > 0:44:26The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Highland Dancers
0:44:26 > 0:44:28and the King's Guard Drill Team.
0:44:28 > 0:44:31The Top Secret Drum Corps.
0:44:37 > 0:44:39About to retire with a military pension,
0:44:39 > 0:44:41which should see him comfortably off -
0:44:41 > 0:44:44for oats - is Corporal Cruachan III,
0:44:44 > 0:44:48regimental mascot of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53The guard of honour are found from the Black Watch,
0:44:53 > 0:44:56the third Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
0:45:07 > 0:45:11Battalion halt!
0:45:13 > 0:45:15CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:45:15 > 0:45:19The Isle has formed and the congregation assembles
0:45:19 > 0:45:22as Edinburgh Castle becomes Westminster Abbey
0:45:22 > 0:45:26to commemorate Her Majesty the Queen's coronation in 1953.
0:45:30 > 0:45:34Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!
0:45:34 > 0:45:38The crown moves up the nave towards the solemn moment of anointing
0:45:38 > 0:45:40and for the coronation.
0:45:40 > 0:45:45To Sir Hubert Parry's great anthem I Was Glad
0:45:45 > 0:45:48and to George Frederic Handel's Zadok the Priest.
0:47:28 > 0:47:30APPLAUSE
0:47:36 > 0:47:38After the coronation,
0:47:38 > 0:47:41Her Majesty processed through the nave
0:47:41 > 0:47:44to be greeted by the cheering of the waiting crowds
0:47:44 > 0:47:47and the pealing of the Abbey bells.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:48:15 > 0:48:17The National Anthem.
0:48:17 > 0:48:20This arrangement was written for the Coronation
0:48:20 > 0:48:24by the foremost wind band composer of his day, Gordon Jacob.
0:49:26 > 0:49:29And as further celebration of the Diamond Jubilee,
0:49:29 > 0:49:32not to be outshone by a dazzling firework display,
0:49:32 > 0:49:35the tattoo cast and audience play their part
0:49:35 > 0:49:37in a very special light show...
0:49:39 > 0:49:40..Diamonds are Forever...
0:49:43 > 0:49:45..and for all.
0:50:33 > 0:50:36CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:50:44 > 0:50:46The Evening Hymn, Sunset...
0:50:46 > 0:50:50the lowering of the colours, lights out...
0:50:50 > 0:50:53the day thou gave us, Lord, has ended.
0:54:26 > 0:54:27CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:54:27 > 0:54:29Commemorating 30 years
0:54:29 > 0:54:32since the conflict for the relief of the Falkland Islands,
0:54:32 > 0:54:37the Lone Piper, Lance Corporal Phil Stevenson of the Scots Guards,
0:54:37 > 0:54:40plays Pipe Major Jim Riddle's tune,
0:54:40 > 0:54:42written on the Falklands battlefield.
0:54:42 > 0:54:44The Crags of Tumbledown.
0:55:50 > 0:55:52CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:56:02 > 0:56:04CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:56:06 > 0:56:09Farewell to the guard of honour...
0:56:10 > 0:56:12..the King's Guard Drill Team...
0:56:15 > 0:56:19..farewell to the Highland dancers from Scotland and from Canada...
0:56:20 > 0:56:22..and from Australia...
0:56:24 > 0:56:26..to the dancers from Queen Victoria School...
0:56:29 > 0:56:31..the Top Secret Drum Corps...
0:56:32 > 0:56:35..to Australia Defence Forces...
0:56:37 > 0:56:41..and the boys and girls from Erskine Stewart's Melville school.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46Farewell to the Massed Military Bands
0:56:46 > 0:56:49from the United Kingdom and Norway,
0:56:49 > 0:56:52and from Australia, and the United States of America.
0:56:52 > 0:56:56It's been another unforgettable Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
0:56:56 > 0:56:59The event, supported by the Royal Bank of Scotland,
0:56:59 > 0:57:02now very much at home and settled in the new stands.
0:57:03 > 0:57:06During the month of August,
0:57:06 > 0:57:09the brightest and best of the world's artists
0:57:09 > 0:57:10congregate in Edinburgh
0:57:10 > 0:57:13and every year the tattoo visitors leave the Esplanade
0:57:13 > 0:57:15knowing that they have experienced
0:57:15 > 0:57:19one of Edinburgh's greatest spectacles and enduring events.
0:57:27 > 0:57:30And finally, the traditional tune, The Black Bear,
0:57:30 > 0:57:33as the Massed Pipes and Drums head for the Royal Mile
0:57:33 > 0:57:35and back to barracks.
0:57:38 > 0:57:42"From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs
0:57:42 > 0:57:47"What makes her loved at home, revered abroad."
0:57:47 > 0:57:49I hope you've enjoyed this unique event.
0:57:49 > 0:57:52I'm Bill Paterson, thanks for watching
0:57:52 > 0:57:53and wherever you are in the world,
0:57:53 > 0:57:58I wish you a good night from Edinburgh and haste ye back.
0:57:58 > 0:58:02Until the next time, may good fortune and good health be yours.
0:58:08 > 0:58:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:58:48 > 0:58:51Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd