Annan Juvenile Pipes & Drums

(1) How old were you when you started playing

I started playing the chanter when I was about 8 but didn't
join the band until I was 10 (I think)

(2) What made you start?
If I'm be honest my mum 'actively encouraged' me to learn
as I didn't really want to learn the pipes. I stuck at it for her,
and glad I did.

(3) What are your greatest influences on life?
Girls, Drugs, & Rock & Roll? Nope, not for me. Music in
general would be very high up on the list, my better half
Laura, and other people inspire me alot. I'm a strong believer that you can learn from people and the stories they tell.

(4) What music do you listen to, other than piping music?
I love just about all genre of music. I like loads but snow patrol, killers, the script and proclaimers are favourites. I also enjoy BBC Radio One live lounge covers and acapella tracks. I have a wide taste of musical appreciation (sentence not taken at all from Chris's profile).

(5) Do you play any other musical instruments?
I certainly do. Keyboard is a favourite, when I get the chance. Drums - I'm forever beating on a table, car wheel or myself. In the past I've done a bit of singing, which is a musical instrument everyone has, and I'm known to regularly sing in the shower. Give me any instrument and I'll have a bash.

(6) Funniest time in your drumming / piping experiences was....?
To me everything is funny. I really can't think of a specific time, although a classic would be when Pipe Major Chris Phair played with the band in a competition however mimed all the way through cause his drone reed fell out.

(7) What is your most favourite possession?
Apart from the laptop, iPhone, Canon 550D with 70-200mm IS USM f.4 lens, Y19 DAS (for those that don't know, my car), the one most important thing I own in all seriousness is my hearing aids. See if a battery runs out........well that's just that!

(8) Do you have a best comedian or act?
To the question, no however I do like a few. Frankie Boyle, Mock the Week team, bit of Billy Connolly, Inbetweeners, Celeb Juice.

(9) What are you currently doing in life?
I'm a student nurse at the University of the West of Scotland, Dumfries, and hope to qualify in 2013. My ambition is to practice nursing in Australia for a bit and to return to then become a paramedic here in Scotland. Back to now, I'm also busy in the band as Pipe Sergeant and Info Services, and I do a design websites locally too.

(10) Finally, if you could have a super power, what would it be?
I think reading people's minds