NAE PLANS - Winter Tour 2014 - Music Videos (kinda)

So November... for me was taken up with this. The Nae Plans 2014 tour, presented by Cal Mac a' Bhriuthainn & Creative Scotland.Those who haven't heard of the nae plans will probably be fairly bamboozled by this menagerie of curious locations, happenings and musical interplay. All presented in bite size episodes - designed to engage the woeful, A.D.D. masses of social media, these music videos are not Miley Cyrus twerkin' hersel' rigid but they are videos with music in them; still not that popular on social media mind you (?!?!?!?!) - this 43 minutes of footage presents about one tenth of what was actually captured on the road. And oh by Jesus what a trip it was, five of us and our gear packed in to a Ford Focus estate. Up hill and down dale, over sounds and causeways through storm and fair weather, delivering some sort of folk music to places that were off track, beautiful and often unaware of what musical entertainments were to befall them.Highlights that I did not manage to capture on camera were... arriving at a murder motel in Scrabster at 3 in the morning. The amazing decor, the blue bathroom suite and somebody doing a burn out in the car park at 6 in the morning. The boy racers of Wick with their curious souped up automobiles. A Jeep Cherokee with a bass box and a Ford Ranger with a waste gate, that particular scene I fear, is a documentary all it's own. The strange industrial, sinister war remnants of Lyness on Hoy, a scene fitting of any horror and contrasted with such bleak beauty over the rest of the Isle is a place I want to revisit. The endless games of Mallets Mallet. The vying for the various ratdog positions. Rat Dog deluxe being the preference of myself due to some bright sparks design sleeping at Ford Dagenham plant.So Yes... I dare say you are no further enlightened as to what I may or may not be trying to present here. The videos are odd, beautiful and funny. You may find them entertaining, you may not. Needless to say they were made without a Plan and that my friends is the crux of the apostrophe. If you can't be bothered to watch the whole 43 minutes. Watch Culloden, Lyness Oil Tank and The Italian Chapel. Hamish and Adam really excelled themselves in these locations and the performances are exqusite and showcase these musicians at their best. In out of the ordinary places with no clue at all.Go buy their record here. http://naeplans.bandcamp.com/