This is the song we play at the end of wedding s , party’s, and at the new year in Scotland 🏴 it really gets every one going at the end of the night ! It should be the national anthem!
Yup, it's like the standard end-of-party sesh tune around these parts. I always think of Billy Connolly when he done that skit about Scottish folk getting so emotional singing about being far away from the homeland, but they could still actually be here! 😂
I would like to say, as an English man who has lived in Scotland for seven years now, that this song gave me goosebumps AND made me feel emotional and proud of Scotland.....even though I was born and raised in London. All I can add is that I love this beautiful land and the people. My wife and I married in Inveraray a few years after I proposed to her beside Glencoe Lochan, and we have always been welcomed wherever we have gone. The Scots are passionate, tough, kind, proud, and very very funny and down to earth....and that passion shines through in this video. 😊
Hi Sean. Got robbed at the Inveraray hotel for soup and a sandwich for two at £34 plus a shady and wine at £11. I felt I was robbed but ended up in the jail lol.
The history of the song (roughly). Two Scottish soldiers in an English prison after the Battle of Culloden. Their captors decide to execute one and release the other in order to go home and tell of their defeat and punishment. So "You'll take the high road" is referring to the released man, while "I'll take the low road" refers to the man about to be executed. The "low road" is alluding to him being buried, while his spirit returns to the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, where he and his true love used to roam.
No, they did not, @@HarryFlashmanVCbut yes, a civil war is fair comment. There were British regiments of Scots origin at all of the major engagements and Campbell aligned militia etc, but absolutely not a majority of the British army present, whereas most of the Jacobite army were Scots. This includes those serving as French soldiers (Royal Ecossais), Lowland regiments etc. all of whom were there to "fecht fir Charlie". Of course there were Irish soldiers (the Picquets) who had left Ireland to continue their fight, but almost all the English Jacobites had been left to garrison Carlisle Castle. Had their advance into England been slower, the strongly Jacobite areas would have had opportunity to join up; had they continued on from Derby Georg II would have left these shores; if they'd carried out the night attack at Nairn.. All these what ifs nearly came to pass and the modern world would be so very different today. Perhaps no USA or UK in their current forms, who knows what else.
@@bryonrbn And don't forget most of the population who even then lived in the central belt wanted nothing to do with this mad scheme and took no part in it preferring the stability of trade and commerce .And of course the Protestants wouldn't rebel for a Catholic king anyway .
67 year old Australian man who lived in Scotland during this time here, met and married the love of my life and was up on the hill at this concert with her. Fabulous and brilliant. That was just the last song of an epic performance. Runrig has been ripped off around the world their music was so good. Just like Farnham and Jimmy Barnes (also from Glasgow). Glad you are giving them a platform again. I was also at a number of the performances at "The Barrows" in Glasgow. check them out.
I'm Scottish and this gives me all the tingles! So many amazing memories at weddings, clubs, parties etc and finishing the night with this song. Everyone is dancing and singing... awesome!!!
How can anyone be personally proud of being randomly born on a spot of land with imaginary borders named by someone then never met? Being proud of personal achievements I can understand, but being born somewhere isn´t an achievment although winning the sperm race probably is.
There is no country on this planet that comes close the the passion and pride of Scottish people. It’s hard to explain but it’s in the mountains, hills, lochs and valleys of this fabulous most beautiful country in the world.
This song is accredited to a Highland clansman of Clan Macfarlane, Jacobite prisoner of the English (following the failed rebellion of 1745). He is imprisoned in a hulk on the banks of the Tyne in N.E. England. The navy used to beach their old wooden warships, when they were of no more use, on the banks of river estuaries, at high tide. Initially a use would be found for them (in this case as a prison ship). They remained beached there until they fell apart. In Celtic myth, the dead can move from place to place beneath the ground (the Low Road) while the living move (of course) above ground (the High Road). The song is a lament. In it, the prisoner knows that death is close and is singing his farewells to his true-love, promising to meet her one last time, on the Banks of Loch Lomond, in a place where they used to meet. Yeah, great performance, I was there all those years ago - one of the fifty thousand who attended. I don't suppose you've ever heard of them, partially because of an early BBC decision to limit their airplay due to their nationalist/Scottish lyrics. Keyboard player is currently a member of parliament for the SNP at Westminster. Didn't stop them though, they had a long and successful career and retired only recently.
Nice post, however to say they wouldn't have heard of them due to BBC limiting them is all sorts of parnoid stupidity. They wouldn't have heard of them as they are American, so many British bands as a whole didn't get famous in the states, as for the BBC paranoia? Laughable, sort yourself out
@@TheMollyPitchers Hasn't been the case since Salmond. I liked him, he had Scotland and only Scotland and our people in his heart but then Salmond (left wing) and now a foreigner (extreme left wing), our nation has went to shit. Alba Gu Brath
Loch Lomond * When you're scottish and this is played, your heart ignites an unstoppable fire, the hair on the back of your neck can hold up houses.. To everyone who loves Scotland🏴❤ We love you too 🏴🏴
Sad lyrics, sad story. But what a great perforance! Thank you for bringing this one up. Check the background on the net. Greetings from Jonas Gothenburg Sweden.
One of the best bands ever to come out of Scotland. I never get fed up hearing any Runrig song even if its in Gaelic. Every album has a show stopper on it.. Thank you for reacting to the FANTASTIC Runrig..
I worked in the National Park at Balloch Castle where the concert took place, it was said a 100,000 attended but police say it was more like 500,000 as people gathered across the Loch on the hills it was head in Glasgow 23 miles away my home town by residents. Biggest concert ever.
Never clicked so fast! Practically a National Anthem over here. 😁 You know you have made it to the end of a Scottish wedding if you hear this song, so many good memories.
The gig just not far from Glasgow was runrig from the bonnie Highlands of Scotland sadly they are now not anymore we where there that day, donnie munro now has his own band a Canadian called Bruce normally took over, sadly 😢 Bruce passed away in Canada of that horrible disease cancer, 😢 now he is at peace and out of pain condolences 🙏 to his wife and children. Isabelle and sandy mackenzie from the Highlands of Scotland
I was at this concert! As a skinny teenager being posted on the shoulders of my uncle and singing my heart out.., Thank you so much for understanding and enjoying the concert. You guys are freaking awesome!
I was in that crowd and I have been lucky enough to have seen Runrig many times and even got to see the last concert at Stirling Castle. I also remember spending a very drunken night with them in Germany around 1988/89. Oh please remember that English is their second language, they are Gaelic speakers.
I can tell you how good it was as I was there. Runrig sang this at the end of all their concerts. It was extra special as this gig was in Balloch Castle Country Park in Loch Lomond. Best concert I've ever attended ❤️
was there too, was a brilliant day listening to Capercaille, The Big Dish, Wolfstone and Runrig, there were two other bands there that day, but have forgotten who, bought the Big Wheel EP and when I started the Army Apprentice College in Chepstow, my barrack room filled up with Scots lads who were in training for the Royal Engineers always came down to listen and have a few beers, don't ask because most of us were under 18 at the time, Was speaking to Calum Munro, Donnies lad and he said it was best concert he went to,
it is always the last song played at weddings, the last dance for the bride and groom, last song of new year. In most pubs and night clubs in scotland its always the last song played before closing, and will get everyone on the dance floor and it brings people together as when its played you will form groups to dance to it with complete strangers. Its our 2nd national anthem next to flower of scotland.
I recommend Flower of the West and Running to the Light, both live. The latter was the wake-up call of Captain Laurel Clark, who was killed in the Columbia shuttle disaster. Remarkably her CD was recovered from the debris and given to her family, who gave it to the band.
I'm glad you guys enjoyed it! This is one of my all time favorite ballads. And I know that you guys like a wide variety of music, so I figured you would dig it as well.
Even as an Englishman I was brought up on this beautiful song. And Loch Lomond itself is stunningly beautiful; it is the largest lake by surface area on the island of Great Britain, going from the Scottish Lowlands ( near Balloch) to the Highlands. It really has "bonnie banks" and "bonnie braes" (hillslopes). Runrig were (still are?) a deservedly successful group. They're called, I believe, after a traditional method of agriculture.
As an English man living in Scotland since 2010 , i love this song, i heard it in the 70's with that TV show, if you know you know . Its a brilliant song.
Brilliant reaction, this song is a staple of many a Scottish wedding at the end of the night. Saw Runrig a few years back at Edinburgh Castle, they were fantastic 🥰🏴
When I get married this is the part I'm looking forward to most, everyone at the reception In a large circle holding hands closing and widening the circle whilst singing this song ..... nothing makes me more patriotic than this song, I fucking adore it ... other than flower of Scotland ofcourse 😂🏴
At 6:31 they sing in Scottish Gaelic, Ho, ho mo leannan Ho mo leannan bhoidheach which translates as Oh, my wee bairn, (Oh my little child) Oh my wee bonny bairn (oh my little, beautiful child) Leannan could also be used as sweetheart. Here's roughly how it's pronouced hoe hoe moe lahn anne hoe hoe moe lahn anne woy och Great to see a review like this of a song all of us Scots grew up singing and smiling to.
Cant believe you reacted to Loch Lomond (or Lick Lamand as you say ;-)) You guys must be the hardest working reactors out there. Has anyone mentioned that this is played at the end of pretty much every party in Scotland???!!?/
Theres a divide in scotland...and this song shows that quite perfectly imo... our wee nation will always try breakout from oppresion even though half of us aid that oppresion.
Thanks for sharing this❤ my mum knew Donnie Munro very well from growing in her younger years in Skye. Sadly she passed away last year😪 This was one of her favourite songs👌
That song was played at my wedding (like most Scottish people) in Edinburgh. Always gets people bouncing. I was born about 2 miles from Loch Lomond and spent my younger days in Balloch pubs. Great place, good times.
I'm from Balloch on the banks of Loch Lomond. This song is sung at the end of every party and social event in Scotland, but being from Loch Lomond makes it extra special! I was four when this concert happened and my parents couldn't get babysitters so they couldn't go even though they were both massive Runrig fans! I've met two members of the band though - Donnie Munro and Pete Wishart.
I grew up with Runrig and had the pleasure of going to one of their concerts in the early 1990's. This is a song that every proud Scot knows well, no matter what their age! It would be interesting to see a reaction to one of their more recent songs when Bruce Guthro became the lead vocalist.
Must have heard this song a million times. My parent are huge Runrig fans, my mum actually used to sing in Gaelic choirs with the lead singer. This song is played at the end of every wedding here in Scotland and every New Year’s Eve. Always gets everyone on the dance floor
I was at the gig in 91, some great Scottish bands were present, but brought up seeing Runrig play in Portree on the Isle of Skye, I saw them in small village halls,but this was a blast, it was beautiful day and Ihad to walk the last four miles to Balloch country park from the main Glasgow to Skye road as traffic was backed up
This as a Scottish person is iconic!! 👌🏴 My brother was there at Balloch, he says Runrig were amazing & to hear Loch Lomond played beside it was spectacular!! I am well jel 🤣
This band is the pride of Scotland. I am Scots Irish descent and I knew this song since I was in grade school. It is a battle song. If you like this one go listen to more of their songs. One of the lead singers Bruce Guthro was an amazing singer who passed away in 2023. This song is a must-listen-to Runrig: There Must Be a Place and many others. This band has a 45-year history and that in and of itself is amazing. They actually were Scotland house band.
Had this played at my fathers funeral, last November as the entrance music. He was a professional entertainer all his life and knew this song in its original version. I’m sure he’d have loved Runrig’s version.
Sung and danced to this many a time at the end of a Scots party. Even watching this now the missus has shouted downstairs to " shut the f*ck up" as i'm singing along ..again.A proud Scot 😂
Sound and lighting and management by Abbotsford acoustics , I had the pleasure of being the lighting engineer at this gig ,what an atmosphere,ranks up there with working at live aid
We used to say you take the high road and I’ll take the low road as kids in Toronto in the 60’s. I never really knew what it truly meant until we were at Loch Lomond touring the Scottish highlands. Our bus driver Colin of Discover Scotland played Loch Lomond by Runrig and explained the whole story of the song. Love it
Apart from Scots Unionists Low Life Judas Traitor Snakes who voted against their own country in 2014 to against it to become a independent country and those fakers still want SCOTLAND to be controlled by a Right Wing Fascist little Englands Govt!! FACT!!
Loved your reaction to Runrig and ‘Loch Lomomd’! Runrig was one of the very first bands I ever saw , in the days when they played tiny village halls. Brilliant then and always have been. Donnie Munro has such an amazing voice - the whole band is really tight. 🏴💙🏴💙
Us Scots are very patriotic and if there's a song like this or the National Anthem being played, we'll go crazy haha! Loved your reaction, I've subscribed x
This was a fantastic day i was at the concert it was a full days music,capercaillie were great and hothouse flowers were absolutely fantastic thsy had the venue jumping before runrig came on and as usual runrig did not dissapoint what a fantastic band ,and i thought it was a nice touch to see one of my favourite scottish djs at the time tom ferrie introduce runrig on stage becsuse he had been playing runrig music for years to get their music out there
Beautiful song we play it every single year to bring in the new year here in Scotland awesome to see you both react if you ever get the chance should visit 🏴
I can't remember when this gig was but I think it was 1991 or 1992. I was on a boat on the loch just behind the stage with about 10 others and it was an unbelievable concert. I hadn't seen this video before but so many memories of that particular night. It was some hangover we all had the next morning! Thanks to Kenny and Karen who I haven't seen for over 30 years now.
Guys, I was there Midsummers day 1991. Scottish to the core but yet this brings me to tears every time I hear it. Scotland wants this as the new national anthem. Love your reaction, memorial day, respect for the fallen.
The Scot’s invented the mosh pit! See any Scottish crowd when this song comes on. Join in or run for cover cause it’s going to get rowdy! 🏴🏴🏴😂😂
Every time I hear this song puts the hairs on my body up . Proud to be Scottish 🏴
American country music has roots in Scottish folk music.
This is the song we play at the end of wedding s , party’s, and at the new year in Scotland 🏴 it really gets every one going at the end of the night ! It should be the national anthem!
It is if it was sang right half the bloody words Is missing
Highland Cathedral for me!
Yup, it's like the standard end-of-party sesh tune around these parts. I always think of Billy Connolly when he done that skit about Scottish folk getting so emotional singing about being far away from the homeland, but they could still actually be here! 😂
@@Rebornagain101 That's because it is an anthem to the band.
Best part of the weddings 😂🏴
I would like to say, as an English man who has lived in Scotland for seven years now, that this song gave me goosebumps AND made me feel emotional and proud of Scotland.....even though I was born and raised in London.
All I can add is that I love this beautiful land and the people.
My wife and I married in Inveraray a few years after I proposed to her beside Glencoe Lochan, and we have always been welcomed wherever we have gone.
The Scots are passionate, tough, kind, proud, and very very funny and down to earth....and that passion shines through in this video. 😊
Hi Sean. Got robbed at the Inveraray hotel for soup and a sandwich for two at £34 plus a shady and wine at £11. I felt I was robbed but ended up in the jail lol.
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Lol....Well they are famous for being canny 😁
This comment actually made me emotional - the bit about us Scots touched my soul. Cheers Englishman 👍
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My pleasure…..It came from the heart.
@@khsmith6242I'm English but my aunty is Scottish been on holiday twice to Scotland best holiday ever you Scots know how to put on a show
The history of the song (roughly). Two Scottish soldiers in an English prison after the Battle of Culloden. Their captors decide to execute one and release the other in order to go home and tell of their defeat and punishment. So "You'll take the high road" is referring to the released man, while "I'll take the low road" refers to the man about to be executed. The "low road" is alluding to him being buried, while his spirit returns to the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, where he and his true love used to roam.
Accurate but remember the war was a civil war. More Scottish soldiers fought on the Hanoverian side than English.
No, they did not, @@HarryFlashmanVCbut yes, a civil war is fair comment. There were British regiments of Scots origin at all of the major engagements and Campbell aligned militia etc, but absolutely not a majority of the British army present, whereas most of the Jacobite army were Scots. This includes those serving as French soldiers (Royal Ecossais), Lowland regiments etc. all of whom were there to "fecht fir Charlie". Of course there were Irish soldiers (the Picquets) who had left Ireland to continue their fight, but almost all the English Jacobites had been left to garrison Carlisle Castle. Had their advance into England been slower, the strongly Jacobite areas would have had opportunity to join up; had they continued on from Derby Georg II would have left these shores; if they'd carried out the night attack at Nairn.. All these what ifs nearly came to pass and the modern world would be so very different today. Perhaps no USA or UK in their current forms, who knows what else.
@@bryonrbn And don't forget most of the population who even then lived in the central belt wanted nothing to do with this mad scheme and took no part in it preferring the stability of trade and commerce .And of course the Protestants wouldn't rebel for a Catholic king anyway .
67 year old Australian man who lived in Scotland during this time here, met and married the love of my life and was up on the hill at this concert with her. Fabulous and brilliant. That was just the last song of an epic performance. Runrig has been ripped off around the world their music was so good. Just like Farnham and Jimmy Barnes (also from Glasgow). Glad you are giving them a platform again. I was also at a number of the performances at "The Barrows" in Glasgow. check them out.
I'm Scottish and this gives me all the tingles! So many amazing memories at weddings, clubs, parties etc and finishing the night with this song. Everyone is dancing and singing... awesome!!!
I live in Balloch, I wish I was around to be there. I', the same, it gives me goosebumps when I hear it.
Scottish are very proud people, we take pride in our country and it’s history
How can anyone be personally proud of being randomly born on a spot of land with imaginary borders named by someone then never met? Being proud of personal achievements I can understand, but being born somewhere isn´t an achievment although winning the sperm race probably is.
There is no country on this planet that comes close the the passion and pride of Scottish people. It’s hard to explain but it’s in the mountains, hills, lochs and valleys of this fabulous most beautiful country in the world.
its also in our blood mate
Wow! How fortunate you are!
Hard to explain. I’m sure other nationalities have similar feelings but I can only speak as a Scot and the pride is fierce 🏴🏴🏴
Until the snp f it up and ignored everywhere outside the Central Belt and the Glasgow Central Mosque 😂😂😂😂
I have only seen pictures yet and your passion is 100% legitimate, go on celebrating scotland
This song is accredited to a Highland clansman of Clan Macfarlane, Jacobite prisoner of the English (following the failed rebellion of 1745). He is imprisoned in a hulk on the banks of the Tyne in N.E. England. The navy used to beach their old wooden warships, when they were of no more use, on the banks of river estuaries, at high tide. Initially a use would be found for them (in this case as a prison ship). They remained beached there until they fell apart. In Celtic myth, the dead can move from place to place beneath the ground (the Low Road) while the living move (of course) above ground (the High Road). The song is a lament. In it, the prisoner knows that death is close and is singing his farewells to his true-love, promising to meet her one last time, on the Banks of Loch Lomond, in a place where they used to meet.
Yeah, great performance, I was there all those years ago - one of the fifty thousand who attended. I don't suppose you've ever heard of them, partially because of an early BBC decision to limit their airplay due to their nationalist/Scottish lyrics. Keyboard player is currently a member of parliament for the SNP at Westminster. Didn't stop them though, they had a long and successful career and retired only recently.
Andy I never knew that the keyboard player was in Westminster.
Nice post, however to say they wouldn't have heard of them due to BBC limiting them is all sorts of parnoid stupidity. They wouldn't have heard of them as they are American, so many British bands as a whole didn't get famous in the states, as for the BBC paranoia? Laughable, sort yourself out
@@overthewebb englandstan of course we just love you morris dancers F**K OFF. SOAR ALBA GU BRATH
@@mairiconnell6282 Peter Wishart was on keyboards.
@@andyallan2909 Thank you so very much I can sleep now!!! lol
Scots are very patriotic, We've never forgotten our forefathers... Their blood is in our hearts forevermore!!!!!
Your government, however is not 😢
@@TheMollyPitchers Hasn't been the case since Salmond. I liked him, he had Scotland and only Scotland and our people in his heart but then Salmond (left wing) and now a foreigner (extreme left wing), our nation has went to shit.
Alba Gu Brath
@@MansonOTIA09 AYE 👍. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
Alba Gu Brath 🏴
The best band in the world. This song definitely gets everybody of all ages in Scotland 🏴🥃. Real music
That’s a stretch now. Good band. Good song
The Scots are intensly proud of their Homeland, and it shows here!!!
Loch Lomond *
When you're scottish and this is played, your heart ignites an unstoppable fire, the hair on the back of your neck can hold up houses..
To everyone who loves Scotland🏴❤ We love you too 🏴🏴
Sad lyrics, sad story. But what a great perforance! Thank you for bringing this one up. Check the background on the net. Greetings from Jonas Gothenburg Sweden.
One of the best bands ever to come out of Scotland. I never get fed up hearing any Runrig song even if its in Gaelic. Every album has a show stopper on it.. Thank you for reacting to the FANTASTIC Runrig..
I have been learning gaelic for years and can not still translate runrig lyrics
I gave upon American schools
The kids were asked to name a Gaelic country my son wrote Scotland
And the teacher marked it wrong.
WE scots are a passionate and proud nation
Loch Lomond is the Soul of Scotland, this song is Amazing, i'm proud to be Scottish 🏴💪😃
So am I, and proud to be British as well. The two best countries in the world.
I worked in the National Park at Balloch Castle where the concert took place, it was said a 100,000 attended but police say it was more like 500,000 as people gathered across the Loch on the hills it was head in Glasgow 23 miles away my home town by residents. Biggest concert ever.
Never clicked so fast! Practically a National Anthem over here. 😁 You know you have made it to the end of a Scottish wedding if you hear this song, so many good memories.
I'm a proud Scot and I always get goosebumps every time I listen to this! 🏴
It’s so nice to see people from other countries listening to this tune it’s a Scottish staple! 🏴❤️
The gig just not far from Glasgow was runrig from the bonnie Highlands of Scotland sadly they are now not anymore we where there that day, donnie munro now has his own band a Canadian called Bruce normally took over, sadly 😢 Bruce passed away in Canada of that horrible disease cancer, 😢 now he is at peace and out of pain condolences 🙏 to his wife and children. Isabelle and sandy mackenzie from the Highlands of Scotland
I was lucky enough to see runrig live at Edinburgh castle in 2008 I’m sure it was, one of the best live performances I’ve been too 🏴 💙
Brilliant wasn’t it?
I was at this concert! As a skinny teenager being posted on the shoulders of my uncle and singing my heart out..,
Thank you so much for understanding and enjoying the concert. You guys are freaking awesome!
Brilliant, Its our second national anthem! And every Scot knows this song! Makes us proud to be Scottish
This is the song that makes me most patriotic, thanks for Representing SCOTLAND! Alba gu Brath 💙
It holds a very special place in every Scots heart.
I was in that crowd and I have been lucky enough to have seen Runrig many times and even got to see the last concert at Stirling Castle. I also remember spending a very drunken night with them in Germany around 1988/89.
Oh please remember that English is their second language, they are Gaelic speakers.
I was at the castle too. The first night I worked up there, the last night I took my wife. We had a ball.
I can tell you how good it was as I was there. Runrig sang this at the end of all their concerts. It was extra special as this gig was in Balloch Castle Country Park in Loch Lomond. Best concert I've ever attended ❤️
I was there too. I was photographing it.
Jealous of the pair of you! What a great band
Did you become a Runrig Backing singer that night, remember the cd that came out with all our names on it . I still have mine .
was there too, was a brilliant day listening to Capercaille, The Big Dish, Wolfstone and Runrig, there were two other bands there that day, but have forgotten who, bought the Big Wheel EP and when I started the Army Apprentice College in Chepstow, my barrack room filled up with Scots lads who were in training for the Royal Engineers always came down to listen and have a few beers, don't ask because most of us were under 18 at the time, Was speaking to Calum Munro, Donnies lad and he said it was best concert he went to,
Margaret I was there too!!
it is always the last song played at weddings, the last dance for the bride and groom, last song of new year. In most pubs and night clubs in scotland its always the last song played before closing, and will get everyone on the dance floor and it brings people together as when its played you will form groups to dance to it with complete strangers. Its our 2nd national anthem next to flower of scotland.
I recommend Flower of the West and Running to the Light, both live. The latter was the wake-up call of Captain Laurel Clark, who was killed in the Columbia shuttle disaster. Remarkably her CD was recovered from the debris and given to her family, who gave it to the band.
I was at that concert=absolutely brilliant from beginning to end!❤❤❤❤
I'm glad you guys enjoyed it! This is one of my all time favorite ballads. And I know that you guys like a wide variety of music, so I figured you would dig it as well.
Even as an Englishman I was brought up on this beautiful song. And Loch Lomond itself is stunningly beautiful; it is the largest lake by surface area on the island of Great Britain, going from the Scottish Lowlands ( near Balloch) to the Highlands. It really has "bonnie banks" and "bonnie braes" (hillslopes).
Runrig were (still are?) a deservedly successful group. They're called, I believe, after a traditional method of agriculture.
Loch Lomond is not a lake. The only lake in Scotland is the Lake of Menteith
As an English man living in Scotland since 2010 , i love this song, i heard it in the 70's with that TV show, if you know you know . Its a brilliant song.
The voice of Scotland, Alba, Caledonia - thank you RUNRIG vor all those songs you gave to us 👍
Welcome tae 🏴 Hunterz. Fair stirs the emotions, right 😎
Never expected to see this on your channel, keep up the entertainment.
there aint a scot that dont know this song aff by heart
So cool, this is where I live (Balloch). My parents were at this concert.
I live 5 minutes from the banks of Loch Lomond. This song is so amazing and is so loved here in Scotland. Thanks for playing it 🙂 ☺️
Me too. I used to go sledding in Balloch Park in the 70's.
Brilliant reaction, this song is a staple of many a Scottish wedding at the end of the night. Saw Runrig a few years back at Edinburgh Castle, they were fantastic 🥰🏴
When I get married this is the part I'm looking forward to most, everyone at the reception In a large circle holding hands closing and widening the circle whilst singing this song ..... nothing makes me more patriotic than this song, I fucking adore it ... other than flower of Scotland ofcourse 😂🏴
Let’s hope it’s the right version
At 6:31 they sing in Scottish Gaelic, Ho, ho mo leannan Ho mo leannan bhoidheach
which translates as
Oh, my wee bairn, (Oh my little child)
Oh my wee bonny bairn (oh my little, beautiful child)
Leannan could also be used as sweetheart.
Here's roughly how it's pronouced
hoe hoe moe lahn anne
hoe hoe moe lahn anne woy och
Great to see a review like this of a song all of us Scots grew up singing and smiling to.
i thought it was "hey my darlin" my nan used to sing similar while waulking
I think her name is Ella Roberts listen to her sing this it spectacular though I do love Runrig from a Scot in Australia
Cant believe you reacted to Loch Lomond (or Lick Lamand as you say ;-)) You guys must be the hardest working reactors out there. Has anyone mentioned that this is played at the end of pretty much every party in Scotland???!!?/
When AC/DC play in Scotland, Angus always plays this before highway to hell in the encore.
This is why I love my country! 🏴🏴🏴
Theres a divide in scotland...and this song shows that quite perfectly imo... our wee nation will always try breakout from oppresion even though half of us aid that oppresion.
This concert must be 30 years old, but still fantastic.
1991 mate
All Scots are touched by this, great reaction.
Thanks for sharing this❤ my mum knew Donnie Munro very well from growing in her younger years in Skye.
Sadly she passed away last year😪
This was one of her favourite songs👌
That song was played at my wedding (like most Scottish people) in Edinburgh. Always gets people bouncing. I was born about 2 miles from Loch Lomond and spent my younger days in Balloch pubs. Great place, good times.
I'm from Balloch on the banks of Loch Lomond. This song is sung at the end of every party and social event in Scotland, but being from Loch Lomond makes it extra special! I was four when this concert happened and my parents couldn't get babysitters so they couldn't go even though they were both massive Runrig fans! I've met two members of the band though - Donnie Munro and Pete Wishart.
I'm from Dumbarton but was born in the Vale. I grew up going sledding in Balloch Park.
I grew up with Runrig and had the pleasure of going to one of their concerts in the early 1990's. This is a song that every proud Scot knows well, no matter what their age! It would be interesting to see a reaction to one of their more recent songs when Bruce Guthro became the lead vocalist.
Must have heard this song a million times. My parent are huge Runrig fans, my mum actually used to sing in Gaelic choirs with the lead singer.
This song is played at the end of every wedding here in Scotland and every New Year’s Eve. Always gets everyone on the dance floor
As a Scotsman it makes me cry happily
I was at the gig in 91, some great Scottish bands were present, but brought up seeing Runrig play in Portree on the Isle of Skye, I saw them in small village halls,but this was a blast, it was beautiful day and Ihad to walk the last four miles to Balloch country park from the main Glasgow to Skye road as traffic was backed up
This as a Scottish person is iconic!! 👌🏴 My brother was there at Balloch, he says Runrig were amazing & to hear Loch Lomond played beside it was spectacular!! I am well jel 🤣
300 year auld 🏴🏴🏴🏴
We play this at the end of a Scottish wedding and it’s feckin awesome. I hope you get to experience it one day.
i live on Isle of Skye and i bump into Donnie Munro every time i'm in the local Co-Op (Co-Op is a supermarket chain)....see him all the time haha
Great song , Scotland all the way 🏴🏴
This band is the pride of Scotland. I am Scots Irish descent and I knew this song since I was in grade school. It is a battle song. If you like this one go listen to more of their songs. One of the lead singers Bruce Guthro was an amazing singer who passed away in 2023. This song is a must-listen-to Runrig: There Must Be a Place and many others. This band has a 45-year history and that in and of itself is amazing. They actually were Scotland house band.
The song you refer to as "There must be a place" is actually titled "Hearts of Olden Glory".
@@robertfoulkes1832 Thanks for clarifyingl
Had this played at my fathers funeral, last November as the entrance music. He was a professional entertainer all his life and knew this song in its original version. I’m sure he’d have loved Runrig’s version.
Thank you for a Scottish reaction love from Scotland 🏴
Sung and danced to this many a time at the end of a Scots party. Even watching this now the missus has shouted downstairs to " shut the f*ck up" as i'm singing along ..again.A proud Scot 😂
Our national anthem....well it should be. Absolutely incredible song that always brings the feels
Sound and lighting and management by Abbotsford acoustics , I had the pleasure of being the lighting engineer at this gig ,what an atmosphere,ranks up there with working at live aid
Loch Lomond (lock lo:mo:nd) Ben Lomond is a hill on one side of the Loch (Road to the Highland starts at Loch Lomond)
We used to say you take the high road and I’ll take the low road as kids in Toronto in the 60’s. I never really knew what it truly meant until we were at Loch Lomond touring the Scottish highlands. Our bus driver Colin of Discover Scotland played Loch Lomond by Runrig and explained the whole story of the song. Love it
Every thing that comes out of Scotland 🏴 is amazing
Apart from Scots Unionists Low Life Judas Traitor Snakes who voted against their own country in 2014 to against it to become a independent country and those fakers still want SCOTLAND to be controlled by a Right Wing Fascist little Englands Govt!! FACT!!
Unless it's name is Sturgeon
I was there photographing it. It was such a feeling to be there with around 40,000 folk singing along
I was there, my home town with my (English!) wife and friends. A magical night.
Really great that a younger generation are appreciating runrig it's a Scottish staple at any event
There’s no feeling like being Scottish 🏴 best way I can find to explain it
I wasn’t born in Scotland
Scotland was born in me 😃 Slandj 🥃🏴
Usually here for your metal reactions, but glad to see a classic from my home country, a real new years classic!
Loved your reaction to Runrig and ‘Loch Lomomd’! Runrig was one of the very first bands I ever saw , in the days when they played tiny village halls. Brilliant then and always have been. Donnie Munro has such an amazing voice - the whole band is really tight. 🏴💙🏴💙
my scottish life is a blast, being from scotland is the best and this song is my childhood imma cry
I was at this concert. It was the first time i had seen them live, they were amazing. 😃😃
You guys have watched gerry cinnamon, and this, you can see just how fantastic scottish crowds are and how they embrace the artist
Wow, This brought me to tears, I was there Balloch with my dad in 1991,I was 10 years old. He sadly passed 5 years later, RIP dad
been in the states 17years this always bring a tear to my eyes evrytime i hear it
Us Scots are very patriotic and if there's a song like this or the National Anthem being played, we'll go crazy haha! Loved your reaction, I've subscribed x
This was a fantastic day i was at the concert it was a full days music,capercaillie were great and hothouse flowers were absolutely fantastic thsy had the venue jumping before runrig came on and as usual runrig did not dissapoint what a fantastic band ,and i thought it was a nice touch to see one of my favourite scottish djs at the time tom ferrie introduce runrig on stage becsuse he had been playing runrig music for years to get their music out there
Beautiful song we play it every single year to bring in the new year here in Scotland awesome to see you both react if you ever get the chance should visit 🏴
I can't remember when this gig was but I think it was 1991 or 1992. I was on a boat on the loch just behind the stage with about 10 others and it was an unbelievable concert. I hadn't seen this video before but so many memories of that particular night. It was some hangover we all had the next morning! Thanks to Kenny and Karen who I haven't seen for over 30 years now.
I was at this concert 😎✌️🏴🏴
I am Scottish and hearing that sung with so much pride brings tears to my eyes
Guys, I was there Midsummers day 1991. Scottish to the core but yet this brings me to tears every time I hear it. Scotland wants this as the new national anthem. Love your reaction, memorial day, respect for the fallen.
It was filmed at Loch Lomond
One of the very few songs that make me cry
There were 30,000 + fan's there that day. Place was bouncing.🎸🎸🎸🎸
I was there that night, remember looking back up the hill towards the castle and the whole place was dancing ❤
The Scot’s invented the mosh pit! See any Scottish crowd when this song comes on. Join in or run for cover cause it’s going to get rowdy! 🏴🏴🏴😂😂
Go to any Scottish wedding and wait til the end, the place explodes with this song.
Runrig were the support band nobody wanted. The reason: they would blow anyone (and I mean ANYONE) off stage. U2 found that out to their cost.
Omg Donny Munro's voice I love Runrig
Great song. Sad story. Greetings from Denmark
Runrig are incredible and this lady is gorgeous 😍