The Woodside Reel

The Woodside Reel

The session scene in Oban has used a number of different venues throughout my time as a participant. For a while in the mid 1990s the main weekly session was…

Mike Campbell’s Reel

Mike Campbell’s Reel

I wrote this tune back in 1995 and named it for one of Oban’s characters, the late Mike Campbell. I first met Mike when I was still in school as…

The Smell Of Dancing

When the Ceilidh Bandidos first formed in 2001 we decided to announce our birth to the world through the medium of the West Highland’s largest (literally) newspaper, The Oban Times.