Reel Time supplied 8 pipers to Murrayfield Stadium last weekend. The pipers piped in the huge number of hospitality guests and posed for a few pictures. The guests were treated to haggis after the game, which was ceremoniously piped in and addressed by Roddy the Piper.
Reel Time mixoligist Steve Martin scooped the top prize in the Scottish Gin Final of the ‘World Class Bartending’ competition at Hotel Missoni in Edinburgh last week. He beat of competition from some of Scotland’s top mixologists with his innovative creation the ‘Tiny 10th Century’. Steve has been working with Reel Time for over a year now, working as bar lead, putting on cocktail demonstrations at events and as part of our cocktails at home package. He has also tantalised guests with his whisky cocktails on a few of our whisky tastings at [...]
After 5 years of running Reel Time Events we are delighted to be recommended as a supplier to the Unique Venues of Edinburgh. The Unique Venues of Edinburgh are an initiative formed to promote the very best in hospitality Edinburgh has to offer. The group is made up of 26 members, including Historic Venues like Edinburgh and Dundas Castles. Alternative underground dinner venues the Queens private yacht Britannia, the HUB (Scotlands festival centre) to the Beautiful surrounds of the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens . The UVE consortium aims to compliment the marketing activities currently undertaken by Visit Scotland and the Edinburgh [...]
After many months of development, we have now put our new look website live www.reel-time.co.uk. We hope you like it and find it easy to navigate. We have included a page of samples and demo videos, so you can listen on line. Also please make use of our enquiry form, meaning availability and quotes can be generated quicker. If you have any comments or things you would like to see, please get in touch.
Reel Time organised a fantastic social program for a pharmaceutical company visiting Edinburgh for their annual conference. Their vision was to have a Robert the Bruce twist on the conference and to give delegates a lasting impression of Scotland. We organised them everything from a clann battle to Highland games with a whisky tasting as an unwind on the last night. Of course Robert the Bruce was officiating every day and keeping the guests in good spirits. They were staying at the Marriott Dalmahoy, with a gala night at the mighty Edinburgh castle. Fantastic settings for [...]
Managing director Roddy Deans was selected out of 33000 applicants to receive a place on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar square, as a part of Antony Gormley’s one and other project. Roddy used his hour to entertain the crowds in Trafalgar square with some well known bagpipe tunes, some contemporary compositions and a fantastic theatrical rendition of Robert Burns address to the haggis, to commemorate 250 years since the great poets birth. Click here to see Roddy's performance.
Working in partnership with Historic Scotland, Reel Time is supplying professional bagpipers for Edinburgh Castle, as part of their daily events program. Our pipers open the castle at 9.30 each morning playing on the front battlements beside the gatehouse suite. They then play a varied program and pose for guests pictures on the battlements at Hospital square. The days playing is topped off with a 15 minute recital before the 1 o clock gun is fired. “it is an honour to be working with the castle and entertaining visitors to our country” said Duncan, one [...]
Reel Time supplied Roddythepiper for the Homecoming 2009 Advertising campaign. Roddy will feature in 5 themed adverts that form the cornerstone of Scotland’s national campaign.
Reel Time Events supplied Pipe Major Roderick Deans to pipe in the 4 Scottish medal winners at 2008s Beijing Olympics to their press conference. He then played on the Olympic homecoming bus down the Royal Mile from Edinburgh Castle to the Scottish Parliament and Holyrood Palace. A crowd of 50000 turned out to welcome Triple Gold Medallist Chris Hoy and 3 other medal winners back to Scotland. We helped to create an atmosphere for this event with some amazing piping to get the crowd in the mood. The striking images of the piper [...]
Reel Time has been chosen to give a whisky tasting at the advance launch of the new Rolls Royce Drop 6 Convertible, August 2008. This follows on from the quality tasting that we did last year for the Drophead Convertible at Archerfield House.