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Photo courtesy of Lachlan Alexander Burke

Teribus made the second trip to the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games this year.  Friday had a bit of rain later in the day, but the rest of the weekend we had fantastic weather!  Read the rest of this entry »

Teribus will be returning to Grandfather Mountain Highland Games on July 8-11, 2010.  Come on out and watch bagpipers wheeze at 5,946 feet above sea level for a good time!  After such a positive response from our first visit to the games, we are happily returning to the festival and looking forward to sharing lots of new music with everyone.  More information about the festival can be found HERE.  See you soon!

(video clip shot last year at the Saturday night concert)

When I left Cincinnati, it was 60-something degrees.  By the time I walked on stage in Arlington for the Texas Scottish Festival it was over 90 degrees.  Fortunately I was wearing my asbestos suit to keep from bursting into flames!  Okay, so it wasn’t too bad after all.  It just took some time to adjust to the heat.  Richard told me he had played at TSF for years not knowing about it and on my first visit (last year) I found the air-conditioned green room.

The crowds were ready for our rowdy bagpipe ensemble and kept us inspired throughout the course of the toasty weekend.  We were also in good company on the Glen Finnan Stage sharing it with Brian McNeill and Ed Miller with plenty of other friends and talented musicians making it a great place to be for the weekend.  Being a photographer in a traveling band is usually filled with opportunities and sadly, I didn’t take a single photo at TSF.  Thanks again to everyone who came out and spent time in the heat to enjoy the music!

For those who may have missed this “motivational poster.”

Teribus continues to work on the second CD.  Randy Miller has been a pleasure to work with at Urbana Recording Studios in Houston.  The studio is a clean, quiet space with excellent gear and a relaxing atmosphere.  I love recording music and really appreciate a great space to work in.  Having such a professional engineer makes the job a lot easier and things run a lot more efficiently as a result.  On the music side of things, we have recorded 8-9 tunes so far and still have a few to go. Read the rest of this entry »

Years ago, while freshly recovering from a near-death experience, one of the band members created a “comic strip” using band photos.  For anyone with an interest in philosophy or bagpipes, you may (or may not) enjoy Piper Nietzsche.  You can see the collection in the Band Photos Gallery.  Here’s a teaser of what to expect.

When Teribus was formed, we were focused on what we wanted to play and how we wanted to play it.  We wanted to embrace the unique qualities of the members and channel the energetic performance styles of each person.  Many people ask us what the name means and where it comes from.  Teribus comes from the battle cry of the men of Hawick and is a tune commonly played on the bagpipe.  The word may mean “Land of Death” or “Land of Victory” (or something completely different) depending on the person you ask.  One thing we didn’t consider was the difficulty in spelling the name of the band.  Fortunately, the website maintains a list of search engine results to keep us informed on any new interpretations of the name.  For your entertainment, here is a brief list of spelling variations from our archives.

First up is “Terubus” – This entry makes sense to me based on our mispronunciation of the word.

This entry is also quite a logical assumption.  When in doubt, add more R’s.

This entry is probably how I would have guessed the spelling.

This entry could be a simple typo or maybe they meant “teribi” in the plural sense of the band.

This entry also makes sense when trying to guess the correct vowels.

This entry also falls under the obvious choice of guessing vowels.  I like the letter “Y” and it breaks up the linear look of the name.

Things eventually start to shift by this point.  It’s possible this entry could be classified as a “word misheard.”

I’m guessing they heard a certain band member pronounce the band name after he downed a bottle of La Fin du Monde.  (add a “th” and some slobber for full effect)

This may have something to do with The French Connection.  Why?  Kozh I said so!  :D

This entry isn’t so far removed but shows some serious enthusiasm for vowels.  Might I recommend “teiraebyeus?”

Okay, now I’m getting confused.  It may be influenced by Latin, or not.

Now this is just silly.  I’m guessing they were searching for this?

Tsessebe photo by Paul Maritz

Of course, there are the verbal “interpretations” that sound like the following:

This sounds like a low-budget horror film that I would enjoy watching on a Friday night.

and then we also have…

Not the most flattering entry, I think.  A sweet lady from Hawick approached me one day after a show and taught me the correct pronunciation which sounded like “teeri-bewsss.”  I can only imagine the search engine entries after hearing us mangle that a few times, so we will have to stick with our Anglicized interpretation for now.  I hope this has been informative for you, dear reader.  For our fellow musicians who are currently in the process of naming your band, do so with great care and make sure to pick a name that not only sounds good, but is relatively easy to spell and pronounce…or not!

For those of you who missed the house concert last month and want a chance to hear the band while getting a nice meal indoors in the Air Conditioning, Teribus is playing McGonigel’s Mucky Duck on Saturday the evening of the Houston Highland Games. If you bring your ticket from the Games you’ll get in for $10 instead of $15. Such a deal!

We’ll be playing all the music that wasn’t Scottish enough for the festival and some of our quiet music as well as the normal bag-slam tunes we’re doing at the Games.

May 15th 7:30  (just following the festival)

McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

2425 Norfolk

Houston Tx 77098

713-528-5999 for tickets

Teribus is delighted to return to the Houston Highland Games May 15-16 at the Houston Farm and Ranch club. That’s the weekend after Mother’s Day for us forgetful folks. We’ll be debuting some new tunes we’ve been working on in the studio and getting ready to so more recording after the weekend. Here’s our schedule:

Saturday, Main Stage

10 AM

3 PM

Sunday, Main Stage

1 PM

4PM

See you there!

You can watch the continuing adventures of our second CD in the making via our latest YouTube video.  The song is the “FP Plinns” and you will hear a final version and mix of the tune on the CD.  You can see Richard’s discovery of the potentiometer, Al tuning up and trying to stay awake, EJ dancing, and Kevin playing a drum not used in this particular song!  Incredible!  Have a look for yourself!