new album released Sunday 17th October, 2010
01 September 2010
MUSIC FOR THE KILTED GENERATION
Red Hot Chilli Pipers new album released Sunday 17th October, 2010
Sunday October 17th sees the originators of Bagrock return with their blistering new album, ‘Music for the Kilted Generation’. The release will be accompanied by a string of Scottish tour dates, allowing the band to take their unique sound to the masses once more.
‘Music for the Kilted Generation’ is the Red Hot Chilli Pipers’ third studio album and a thank you to their fans – The Kilted Generation. Featuring the band’s ‘chillified’ versions of tracks such as Queen’s ‘Radio Ga Ga’, The Who’s ‘Baba O’Reilly’, Robbie Williams’ ‘Let Me Entertain You’ and AC/DC’S ‘Long Way To The Top’. Their version of Snow Patrol’s ‘Chasing Cars’ has been going down a storm in America where the band has been trialling it during a seven week tour.
The album also sees The Chillis incorporating gospel and dance into their melting pot of sound through the likes of ‘Everybody Dance Now’ and a superb version of ‘Amazing Grace’, featuring members of Glasgow’s Gospel Truth Choir who have previously performed with acts as varied as The Skids, Horse and Codeine Velvet Club
To celebrate the release of ‘Music for the Kilted Generation’, the band will play an intimate show at Glasgow’s Oran Mor on Monday 18th October featuring some special surprises! There will also be the chance to join up as honorary members of the Kilted Generation and tickets are expected to sell out incredibly fast so fans should log on towww.ticketmaster.com
The Chillis will also appear at HMV Buchanan Street, Glasgow at 4pm the same day to sign copies of the new album and meet their fans.
The rest of the Scottish tour dates are as follows:
Friday 22nd October: The Music Hall, Aberdeen – musichallaberdeen.com - 01224 641122
Saturday 23rd October: The Nevis Centre, Fort William – neviscentre.co.uk - 01397 700 707
Thursday 28th October - The Albert Halls, Stirling – stirling.gov.uk/alberthalls - 01786 473544
Friday 29th October - The Ironworks, Inverness – ironworksvenue.com - 0871 789 4173
Join 'The Kilted Generation'
27 August 2010
Whilst the band are Bagrocking the States - ex chilli Willie Armstrong becomes the champion Vuvuzela player of Scotland!
Read the full story in The Scottish Sun
hereGuitarist Nick - The Firestarter has vowed to take Bagpipes lessons after only managing 6 seconds!!
Join the Kilted Generation on the 17th October!!
New T Shirt Launched
23 August 2010
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers had another very successful weekend at the world's biggest Irish Festival in Milwaukee! Record crowds came to see their performances on the Celtic Rock stage and then on the Sunday night the Chilli Pipers joined their friends from the amazing band 'Gaelic Storm' for a blazing number! The band this weekend will be playing at the Irish Festival in Peoria on Friday and then in Dubuque on Saturday. We are also playing an intimate gig on Wednesday the 25th at JJ McAuliffe's pub in Racine. WI. It would be great to see some people from Milwaukee Irish Fest there!
Especially for the Irish Festivals the Chilli Pipers have had specially made new limited edition 'Irish Green' T shirts...this will soon be available to buy direct from our website.
17 August 2010
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers leave today for their 7 week tour of the United States of America!
The band will be playing in Milwaukee, Kansas City, Peoria, Dubuque, New York, Hartford CT, New Hampshire, Massachussets and Pennsylvania! If you want to catch one of our shows, then check out the Sizzling Gigs for details.
We will keep you updated with at least weekly blogs and we will put some videos on You Tube.
The band is back on the 28th September....just in time for.........Remember Remember the 17th October!!
13 August 2010
The Chilli Pipers are enjoying their 6 night run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Princes Street Gardens as part of the Assembly Rooms programme! It has been sold out every night so far with great crowds. The boys were delighted to read a great review in the Herald (13/8/10).
Check it out for yourselves in the Spicy Testimonials!
Remember Remember the 17th October!!
11 August 2010
As reported in the Daily Record, The Chilli Pipers are delighted to have Stuart back after his 9 month break from playing!
Stuart along with Lorne MacDougall have been in the studio the last few weeks putting the finishing touches to the new Chilli Piper CD - out on October 17th!!!
Stuart says " I am delighted to be back in the band playing! The band is about to embark on a very exciting tour of the USA which will give us the opportunity to spread the Bagrock word even further!"
22 July 2010
We’ve been busy little Chilli’s over the past few months and having been laying down tracks for the new album. Looks like it will be out on 17th October so keep your beady eyes here for more news!
22 July 2010
It’s a sad day at Chilli Towers, the G-Man has moved on to pastures new but we wish him all the best and will continue to bagrock even harder in his honour! Since we know that you guys need a brilliant axe-man to keep you dancing to bags-of-rock, we’re on the hunt for a new version! Keep your eyes peeled and on
www.redhotchillipipers.com and facebook for more news – we promise you will love him! He’ll be hunky, fun and oh, so rock ‘n’ roll…..!
Chillis go west.
15 June 2010
Hi Chilli Fans in the USA. Are you ready to feel the heat? We are coming to visit you very shortly so get ready to be bagrocked to the core. I am sure that many of you will have seen our show on PBS recently. Chilli HQ has been flooded with emails saying just how much you all enjoyed it. The US bulletin boards are buzzing with comments like 'gave me goosebumps' 'that's pretty damn cool' 'wow that was great' and from one guy in Texas 'what's the difference between a bagpipe and an onion? No one cries when you cut up a bagpipe!' (So I suppose you can't please everyone, right?)
So for those of you interested in coming along and rocking with us on our US Tour 2010 'USA - Feel the Heat' then pop over to our 'Sizzling GIGs' page and see where we are going to be. We would love to see you and if you do come along, remember and say hi.
And it's a huge Chilli shout out to Gail and Bob McClellan of
The Olde Burnside Brewing Company in Hartford CT without whose support and enthusiasm and friendship, we would never have made it over to the USA.
You heard it here first.
07 May 2010
As always, Chilli Fans, you are the first to know when we get some exciting news. The Chillis will be appearing for 6 shows as part of the Assembly Edinburgh Festival Programme in August 2010. An exciting new venue in Princess Street Gardens is being created by erecting a Spiegeltent over the current bandstand - you know the one where the orchestra plays for the fireworks concerts - and it is going to be a blast! This info has not been released anywhere yet and we have been told today that tickets do not go on sale until Monday 10th May from the Assembly Festival Box Office on 0131 623 3030.
The dates the Chillis are performing are Tuesday 10th to Sunday 15th August and the shows will be on around 18:00. We'll let you know as soon as we have the full info so please check back here. This is a rare chance to catch the show before the Chillis start their major tour of the USA in September.