LOCK UP’s Nicholas Barker - Video Of Pipe Band Collaboration
June 12, 2014, 10 years ago
On June 6th, drummer Nicholas Barker (Lock Up, Brujeria, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle Of Filth) was part of a very unique musical collaboration at the Henry Travers Studio in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, England.
Members of the Berwick RBL and Eyemouth RBLS Pipe Bands, performed a selection of traditional piping songs, playing along to Barker's inimitable extreme metal drum beats. Video filmed that rare evening has since surfaced:
This collaboration is part of the Metal Militia project by artist S Mark Gubb, serving as a piece of the Gymnasium Gallery programme for Berwick Visual Arts. In the Gymnasium Gallery, a sound and light installation will bring together multiple heavy metal drum samples to create a powerful and immersive visual experience. The project draws on the events of March 1689 which lead to the birth of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. On that day, in the space of two hours, a militia was raised to defend Edinburgh against the Jacobites. This was achieved by a man beating a drum to raise people's attention and, to this day, this regiment retains the unique right, by law, to raise a militia 'by beat of drum'.
The project logo (pictured below) was designed by Christophe "Lord Of The Logos" Szpajdel, the world's leading designer of black and death metal band logos. This was reproduced as a limited-edition t-shirt which was given, free, to the first 50 people through the doors at the performance.
