Edinburgh Military tattoo

So now it's August and in Edinburgh that means it's Fringe Festival time!! the largest arts & comedy festival in the world! It goes on for the whole month of August and there are people EVERYWHERE! there are about 400 different venues ranging from free comedy shows to the professional productions like the military tattoo.

Luckily the hostel was selling tickets to the show so there we went. After waiting in one of the longest lines ever we found our seats and the show began. Just as you would expect there were a lot of pipers to open the show in the formal tradition and we heard the history of music in the defence forces but then things changed up a bit and we were shown different styles of music from guest military bands from around the world. eg west indies, usa, taiwan, russia, norway canada and the far east.

It wasn't only marching bands on show, others included some motorbike stunts, dancers, limbo, bands on horseback and of course the lone piper from high in the castle.

I'll put up some pictures now but if you (whoever you may be) ever come to Edinburgh in August make sure you get some tickets and go and see the show, it will be more than what you'll expect!!!

This is the line before the show down the royal mile, you can see the back of the stands right in the middle of the picture if you look really closely.

The pipers heading out at the beginning of the show

A group of riding kids from 6 years to 16 years of age doing their pyramid work

The top girls highschool of Taiwan showing of their stuff, they kept the best timing out of all the groups.

Some of the projection work onto the castle, here you can see the thistle scotlands national flower. This is also how they showed some of the history of the marching band.

Altogether i think that the show we went to was one of the best ones...perfect weather and nobody dropped any of their twirling equipment or fell off their motorbike...apparently that happened at some of the other shows but not at OURS!!!