WICKED TINKERS: Banger For Breakfast

Wicked Tinkers

Banger For Breakfast

© 2003 Wicked Tinkers (682455010324)

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It's live and raw - like you'll usually find us at the Scottish Highland Games. "Banger" originally started out with 60 hours of music recorded live across the country.

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After ten years together and sales of over 45,000 CDs, WICKED TINKERS continues to amaze their fans across the country belting out raucous traditional Celtic tunes in their own unique and witty style. They've been blending the emotion and power of the Great Highland Bagpipe with the pounding of raw tribal rhythms for over a decade and have recently added the haunting sound of the Bronze-Age Irish Horn - a sound lost for thousands of years. They play the music of the Scottish Highlands, spicing it with the Celtic tunes of Ireland and the many lands graced by the Gaels. WICKED TINKERS perform the kind of music you might have heard hundreds of years ago at a Scottish wedding, ceilidh, or around the campfire of a Highland raiding party.

Award-winning bagpiper Aaron Shaw, well-known in the world of piping, has been playing for over 27 years. His playing elicits emotional ranges from sorrow, joy, and exuberance, to the passion of battle.

Banging the Tapan, a big goat-headed bass drum, for 30 years, Warren Casey adds a deep pounding dimension to Aaron's pipes while moving as if he is carrying a feather. Besides the Tapan, Warren also dazzles the audience with the fast-paced beat of the traditional Irish rim drum called the Bodhran.

Keith Jones has been playing drums since he can remember. Exceptionally talented with any drum you can imagine, Keith rounds out the percussion with a driving rhythm and energy, playing snares, djembe and odd bits of the stage and audience.

To add to the uniqueness of WICKED TINKERS, Wayne Belger is one of the very few musicians in the country and indeed the world to play the Bronze-Age Irish Horn. It's unusual haunting sound and that of various Didgeridoos and more Bodhrans makes WICKED TINKERS a performance both unique and outrageous.

WICKED TINKERS sound is the distillation of the passion of a people and their music. Like a fine, smoky Scotch whisky, it's a little challenging but unmistakably the real thing.

"The Wicked Tinkers are crazy in the way that only very, very good performers can be, with a nuttiness that is enticing rather than intimidating. Consummate performers, they work together like the proverbial well-oiled machine, albeit one oiled with mutton grease and lubricated with plenty of ale."

- Maria Nutick, Book Review Editor
greenmanreview.com

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  • Banger for Breakfast
    author: Bill Kraljev

    My son and I really enjoy this album. Great pipe playing and drumming!! If you have any Celtic (Irish or Scottish) blood in you, these reels, jigs and marches will get your whole body moving to sound of the music.

  • Fabulous!
    author: Lori Henaghan

    We love it! Amazing sound. My son is in the Wyoming Pipe and Drum Band and we love it!

  • WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    author: Joan

    Just stumbled into this sound and boy am I ever glad I did! These guys are unbelievable. Good music for exercise...you get lots when you jump and dance around with the beat. I feel like I fell into a gold mine!

  • absolutely brilliant and vibrant stimulating and even sexually alivening
    author: bcoker-g@fastmail.fm

    the drumming was awesome and exciting and real life generating tones to the extent of actually moving body wise to match the rhythm of life moving motions, excellent. geoff

  • This is a "CRAIC" group!
    author: S. Carter

    This CD is brilliant! It had the whole family bouncing off the walls. Don't think about buying this...just do!

  • Absolutely brilliant!
    author: Scealai

    This CD is amazing. I heard a lot of it live, at Highland games, and fell in love with their astounding style--such a fusion of cultures! I highly recommend this CD.

  • Rousing and raucus fun!
    author: Susan P

    These guys really know how to put on a show and listening to this CD with its live recordings brings back the fun of being there. Amazing musicians and great entertainers all! You will find yourself bouncing and tapping and clapping with the audience as you listen.

  • These guys are hot!
    author: Christel

    You know the CD that just keeps you going, and you just can't quit playing it? Well this is it!

  • A CD our whole family can dance to!
    author: Melissa

    My husband loved Banger For Breakfast for his Father's Day gift. And so did our 1 year old- everytime she walks near the CD player, she starts stomping her foot and shaking her body in anticipation of the Wiked Tinkers!

  • My new favorite!
    author: Mary

    I just saw them at the Woodland Scottish Games and they were amazing! You can really tell that they love what they do and they put on a fun, energetic show unlike anything I have seen. There music is encompasses so many genres-African, Aboriginal,Indian- played out on traditional Scottish instruments. Highly recommended.

  • SIMPLY THE BEST ! ! ! ! !
    author: Kim

    THIS HAS QUICKLY BECOME MY FAVORITE! I CAN'T SIT STILL WHEN IT'S ON... YOU JUST GOTTA DANCE! THE LIVE ENERGY COMES THROUGH AND IT'S ALMOST AS GOOD AS BEING THERE. YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS ONE!

  • Incredibly Unique in it's Awesomeness
    author: Greg Fortier

    The mix of the percussion, bagpipes and didgeridoo from this band makes this quite a unique CD to add to your Celtic collection. Be carefull of your bass on the stereo though..with all those wonderfull instruments mixed, some of the songs allow you to truly feel the music. I love this album and can't wait to get another CD from them.

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