The Peatbog Faeries don’t really look like rock stars, or what you might call the traditional larger-than-life performer. They look more like a group of dads together for a night on the town, which i suppose is not too far from the truth. However, they certainly know their music and how to deliver it in a live setting.
The Faeries, hailing from Skye, deliver a diverse sound to say the least. While traditional Scottish folk instruments such as fiddles, pipes, and whistles make up their musical backbone, this is mixed with and complemented by electric guitars, basses, drums, and a live mixing desk. This setup allows the Faeries to infuse a variety of different genres and styles into their music, all the while maintaining their Scottish roots. Certain songs wouldn’t be out of place in a ceilidh, while others would fit in well at Glastonbury and some would even work in a nightclub.
That is not to say that each song is completely different. The two frontmen, Peter Morrison on pipes and whistles, with Ross Couper on the fiddle, maintain a solid base of traditional celtic music at the heart of each tune and, while this runs the risk of sounding a bit samey, the melodies and tunes they have come up with are so good in an inescapably Scottish, foot-tapping way, that you find yourself positively wanting the songs to be similar.
As live performers, these guys know what they are doing, and their technicians crafted a show that very much complemented each song and the show as a whole. You can see that the musicians really enjoy what they are doing and, as well as this, are damn good at it too.
