The Whistlebinkies

Arran Folk Festival 1993

Brodick Marquee, Brodick, Isle of Arran, Scotland
12th June 1993



1. Pipe Jigs
2. I'll Aye Ca' in by Yon Toon
3. Aye Waukin' O / Loudin's Bonnie Woods and Braes
4. 6 Reels
5. Band Intros
6. Wauking Song
7. Inner Sound
8. Pipe Reels
9. The Battle of Sherrifmuir
10. The Spirit of Flight
11. Pipe March
12. Shetland Reels
13. Rattlin' Roarin' Willie


Mick Broderick - Bodhran, Vocals, Stories
Peter Anderson - Scottish Side Drum
Eddie McGuire - Flute
Judith Peacock - Clarsach, Vocals
Mark Hayward - Fiddle
Stewart Eydmann - Fiddle, Concertina
Robert Wallace - Lowland Pipes

(MC - Bobby Watt)


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This is for Mick Broderick, who recently passed away. RIP


Mick Broderick was born in the Clydebank Blitz and has been bombarding audiences ever since. His first career in music came to an abrupt end when he was ejected from the local boys choir by a certain Monsignor Bradley when his voice broke suddenly in mid-hymn. However, it was while working as a plater in the shipyards of Clydeside that his true skill as a raconteur and storyteller was honed.

From the jazz scene of the beatnik era he quickly ascended to the heights of Glasgow’s Montrose Street Folk Club and the folk revival began in earnest. Out of this hive of activity, especially around the Scotia Bar and the anti-Polaris movement, came groups like the Jacobites which found Mick lined up with Billy Connolly and Tam Harvey. After they went their separate ways Mick formed the Whistlebinkies with Sean McGhee, Jim Daly and the McGovern brothers. With a change of line up to include Gordon Hotchkiss (concertina) and Eddie McGuire (flute) in the early 1970s their original American sound gave way to more Celtic styles. In 1974 Mick invited Rab Wallace (bagpipes) to join; in 1976 Gordon and Jim left and the group established their commitment to performing Scottish traditional music through a core of harp, fiddle and pipes.

With this “damn band which keeps following me around” Mick banged his bodhran, chanted his songs and told his tales around the world before retiring from the group in the late 1990s.