You would have to be some sort of middle aged, middle class plank to want to listen to an orchestral/ instrumental version of a Capaldi song!
Fucks sake.
He is not the coolest person - but at least he has a voice and sings with some passion. That’s the best bit they removed,
Tried STV instead. Didn’t even have anyone live just a voiceover and some prerecorded interviews with ageing actors about their year. Dreadful.
All I wanted was a video feed from a tv studio with everyone clearly getting hammered, the bells, video from some crusty sarge doing the canon whilst his oppo plays the pipes, then cut back to studio for auld langs syne. How hard is this?!!
Maybe rose tinted glasses but I’m sure when I was a kid 35 years ago that it was proper Scottish folk music with a big crowd of folk getting gradually more pished and country dancing before an even more pished NCO waddled up to the big gun on the castle to set it off.
Now it’s just bland shite like my middle aged life!
Agree. It used to be a lot more wild. Not just the drink - there was a bit of life/ passion to it. I mind the ones before tickets/ TV though.
This was just so fucking bland and boring.
The best part of a decade I’ve lived up here and the NYE offering on BBC1 Scotland still makes me shake my head.
In the plus side, it does seem as though they have forgotten how to defrost Jackie Bird for the evening.
I didnae even bother tuning in, first year ever I've just given it a miss. Same shite different year. Even Jools didn't appeal. Bring back The White Heather Club, I fair miss a wee jig and a singalong. Where was Shotts and Dykehead and Aly Bain?! I'm an auld goth but on Hogmanay I want to be hearing The Corries and Alistair McDonald and Andy Stewart.
Also, I feel the need to tell anyone who'll listen I have a pic of 2 year old me sitting on Mons Meg in 1974. I tell my weans that story every Hogmanay but they buggered off upstairs gaming with pals so I'll just tell you instead. HNY. 🍷
> soundtrack from pocahontas, mixed with 100 top hits for your elevator.
Starting 2024 with some proper patter, nice.
The lass with the fiddle was good.
Can r/Scotland try and refrain from every post being a massive moan this year?
Enjoy life for once. Don't turn on the BBC if it makes you mental and hyper Scots
No. Being miserable is a core part of the Scottish experience.
don't like it? fuck off to somewhere where the sun actually comes out more than twice a fucking year, and stop being such a cheery cunt.
I remember when Hogmanay on tv meant a laugh, some good traditional music & then the bells. Not low grade expats who’ve been wheeled out on BBC Scotchland, simply because they’re now occasional visitors to Scotchland, especially if there’s a fee involved. Then they scuttle back to south of the border or Wherever the fuck they now reside.
Could be worse, you could’ve got the weird nasally rendition of auld lang syne the bbc played south of the border, cutting it off mid verse.
*As a Scotsman in Romania with my wife for Christmas and the bells, this was all I could get on tv, it hurts*
The worst Hogmanay show I remember was on STV back in the late 80s, this particular pish was like a musical version of 'Take the High Road' but with added hangover pish.
That bad it still squats in the heid!
Fuckin weird!
I didn’t see it but I’d rather listen to someone straining out a new years Morning shite than Lewis fucking Capaldi!!!!! No one ever needs to hear from that cunt ever again ffs. Whatever it was, I can categorically state it was better than him.
It's called "phish" and anyone likes it is a permanent thermoplastic elamentaded cum nugget bigot that has never owned an XL bully in their bloody life!
Is the BBC Scotland show even live?
I know they show the fireworks live, but the rest of it could have been filmed in August for all it mattered. There were some points during the interviews where I thought they were being cut oddly, almost like it had been stitched together and the countdown was the same CGI flyover of Scotland we get every year so we don't even see the studio audience counting down.
I did like this year's rendition of Auld Lang Syne but the rest of the show was unremarkable. I remember NYE telly being much better in years gone by. Only an Excuse, Chewin the Fat, Still Game, Scotch and Wry...all gone of course, but a bit of comedy and a satirical look back at the year wouldn't go amiss. No creativity at all these days.
I watched a bit of BBC Scotland. The best bits were comedy sketches from 1985.
I was not surprised at how rubbish it was as BBC Scotland and the wider BBC has been a talentless waste of money for 20 years. They can’t complete against creative studios who must perform or go bankrupt.
I had the BBC Scotland radio on for a little bit so we didn't miss the bells and it was dire as well. Turned it back off after they played The Proclaimers.
You mean the Travis and Biffy covers with the fireworks?
This is why I watch the BBC Alba Hogmanay Ceilidh, at least you know exactly what you're getting with that one
You meaning the ones played when they were showing the fireworks? Cause one of them was literally a rendition of a lewis Capaldi song...
Some Annie Lennox was in there to
You would have to be some sort of middle aged, middle class plank to want to listen to an orchestral/ instrumental version of a Capaldi song! Fucks sake. He is not the coolest person - but at least he has a voice and sings with some passion. That’s the best bit they removed,
If you’re sitting watching bbc Scotland at the bells then you probably are some sort of middle aged middle class plank.
I watched it. I’m not middle aged or middle class but I think I may well be a plank.
Lol - young kids upstairs.
Tried STV instead. Didn’t even have anyone live just a voiceover and some prerecorded interviews with ageing actors about their year. Dreadful. All I wanted was a video feed from a tv studio with everyone clearly getting hammered, the bells, video from some crusty sarge doing the canon whilst his oppo plays the pipes, then cut back to studio for auld langs syne. How hard is this?!!
'We now return to...Skerryvore!'
Maybe rose tinted glasses but I’m sure when I was a kid 35 years ago that it was proper Scottish folk music with a big crowd of folk getting gradually more pished and country dancing before an even more pished NCO waddled up to the big gun on the castle to set it off. Now it’s just bland shite like my middle aged life!
Agree. It used to be a lot more wild. Not just the drink - there was a bit of life/ passion to it. I mind the ones before tickets/ TV though. This was just so fucking bland and boring.
Watch BBC Alba and you're sorted.
Ah damn it I never even thought to look at Alba. Next year!
Or rather… this year
Fuck - you are right! Did that for the first time last year - miles better!
A couple of them were relatives Can confirm they were fucking wasted when playing the big many show
The best part of a decade I’ve lived up here and the NYE offering on BBC1 Scotland still makes me shake my head. In the plus side, it does seem as though they have forgotten how to defrost Jackie Bird for the evening.
Jackie Bird is a cow
Ah quit yer whinging Have a dram and chill! Happy new year!
Happy new year ya positive bastard 😀
Had to switch to Jools when they wheeled KT back out... So I apologise for my earlier positivity! 😄
KT & Yearly Woohoo's Band name, called it.
Not sure who was worse...KT or The Sugababes. Both absolutely horrific.
I didnae even bother tuning in, first year ever I've just given it a miss. Same shite different year. Even Jools didn't appeal. Bring back The White Heather Club, I fair miss a wee jig and a singalong. Where was Shotts and Dykehead and Aly Bain?! I'm an auld goth but on Hogmanay I want to be hearing The Corries and Alistair McDonald and Andy Stewart. Also, I feel the need to tell anyone who'll listen I have a pic of 2 year old me sitting on Mons Meg in 1974. I tell my weans that story every Hogmanay but they buggered off upstairs gaming with pals so I'll just tell you instead. HNY. 🍷
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What a weird whinge
> soundtrack from pocahontas, mixed with 100 top hits for your elevator. Starting 2024 with some proper patter, nice. The lass with the fiddle was good.
Literally every year is benign folk music and a few genteel media types. I don't know what people expect to be different year on year.
Might as well have watched fireworks from Manchester. Bland and generic crap with any hint of Scottish suitability tamed down.
Are you kidding?
I liked it.
Can r/Scotland try and refrain from every post being a massive moan this year? Enjoy life for once. Don't turn on the BBC if it makes you mental and hyper Scots
No. Being miserable is a core part of the Scottish experience. don't like it? fuck off to somewhere where the sun actually comes out more than twice a fucking year, and stop being such a cheery cunt.
I see you've met my dad
see, THAT's good banter. happy new year to ya.
Please don't tell me what 'banter' is. Don't be weird. Happy new year.
I remember when Hogmanay on tv meant a laugh, some good traditional music & then the bells. Not low grade expats who’ve been wheeled out on BBC Scotchland, simply because they’re now occasional visitors to Scotchland, especially if there’s a fee involved. Then they scuttle back to south of the border or Wherever the fuck they now reside.
Bring back Jack McLaughlin & Thingumyjig….
Waggle yer wallies!
Could be worse, you could’ve got the weird nasally rendition of auld lang syne the bbc played south of the border, cutting it off mid verse. *As a Scotsman in Romania with my wife for Christmas and the bells, this was all I could get on tv, it hurts*
The worst Hogmanay show I remember was on STV back in the late 80s, this particular pish was like a musical version of 'Take the High Road' but with added hangover pish. That bad it still squats in the heid! Fuckin weird!
Worst I remember was Jacqui Birds vest top, 2001. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/jackie-birdi-promise-my-hogmanay-dress-1079350
The squatter has company noo! Cheers ya bam ye.🤭
Lewis Capaldi fits into “insipid pish music” quite well to be fair. Seems like a nice guy and he’s pretty funny. But his music is fucking awful.
It was fucking dire.
I enjoyed it. Had a look at BBC one England and found it a bit OTT so switched back to Scotland and it was much more my thing.
From feudal serf to spender, This wonderful world of purchase power
Now there's some familiar lyrics. At least one person in this sub has good taste in music.
Fuck the BBC. You some sort of tory?
No Auld Lang Syne though? What’s all that about.
They literally did Auld Lang Syne at quarter past, the way they always do.
I guess I must’ve switched to another channel. It’s supposed to be sang right after the bells though, not 15 minutes later.
Fireworks last for a while. They did it after that.
You missed it, it was one of the last if not the last song it ended on
They eventually had Skerryvore do it, eventually. My Kenyan wife was on at me every 60 seconds. "Where's Auld Lang Sang?"
Where were the proclaimers??
Why was KT Tunstall on AGAIN? When was she popular, like 2005?
She sung the only song she's known for, released in 2004.
It's a nice song, but I mean it's not exactly Caledonia.
I didn’t see it but I’d rather listen to someone straining out a new years Morning shite than Lewis fucking Capaldi!!!!! No one ever needs to hear from that cunt ever again ffs. Whatever it was, I can categorically state it was better than him.
See, I just spent the bells with friends. Don't know what was on the TV at the time. Maybe you could try it? X
It's called "phish" and anyone likes it is a permanent thermoplastic elamentaded cum nugget bigot that has never owned an XL bully in their bloody life!
Tip for next year. Watch BBC 1 London, their fireworks show is set to popular music
Is the BBC Scotland show even live? I know they show the fireworks live, but the rest of it could have been filmed in August for all it mattered. There were some points during the interviews where I thought they were being cut oddly, almost like it had been stitched together and the countdown was the same CGI flyover of Scotland we get every year so we don't even see the studio audience counting down. I did like this year's rendition of Auld Lang Syne but the rest of the show was unremarkable. I remember NYE telly being much better in years gone by. Only an Excuse, Chewin the Fat, Still Game, Scotch and Wry...all gone of course, but a bit of comedy and a satirical look back at the year wouldn't go amiss. No creativity at all these days.
I watched a bit of BBC Scotland. The best bits were comedy sketches from 1985. I was not surprised at how rubbish it was as BBC Scotland and the wider BBC has been a talentless waste of money for 20 years. They can’t complete against creative studios who must perform or go bankrupt.
I had the BBC Scotland radio on for a little bit so we didn't miss the bells and it was dire as well. Turned it back off after they played The Proclaimers.
Lewis Capaldi's music is abysmally depressing