“The tribal stuff we’re doing started out as a fluke,” said Fergus. Oddly enough, the brothers were not particularly exposed to Australian aboriginal or tribal music while living there, but started experimenting with it during their street performing days. We have brought those Celtic influences into what we already were, which I think is a bit of a different slant than some of the other bands out there.” Instead of being a Celtic band trying to go rock ‘n’ roll, it’s worked the other way around. ![]() ![]() We started out very much as a pop-rock band, and that’s basically what we still are. “We’re not really influenced by any of that stuff,” says pipes player, guitarist and vocalist Fergus (no last name), who along with his brothers Hamish (pipes, guitar, vocals) and Angus (pipes, bass, vocals) are of Scottish ancestry and hail from Bathurst, New South Wales, a small country town about three hours west of Sydney. Combining Celtic, Australian aboriginal and African tribal influences with a solid rock music base, Brother may have you dancing a reel or reeling from an onslaught of bagpipes and electric guitars.Īlthough other Celtic bands use similar instrumentation - for instance, Scottish folk artist Dougie MacLean uses an Australian didgeridoo, a wind instrument that produces a low droning noise, and bands such as Canada’s Rare Air mix electric guitar with pipes - Brother doesn’t feel a strong connection with them or to the Celtic music scene. ![]() Those are bagpipes all right, but you’ve never heard them played the way the Australian band Brother does.
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