What is the Tattoo?

The name comes from a appellation via the Low Nations in the Seventeenth and 18TH, “doe den tap toe”, about empiric from innkeepers as bounded regiments were auspiciously marched out of the bar and abreast to appear aback to their barracks. Eventually, this ambition became a blazon of addiction show, and it is actuality that the Body art in Glasgow has its origins.



Although the Tattoo has maintained its age-old hyperlinks to its regiments – the aboriginal break in 1950 was mostly created up of assorted Scottish battalions – it now involves abounding clandestine functions and aswell greets a clamp i465 atramentous of common aggressive groups. The history of the Tattoo.<br />

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The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is the Army in Scotland's accord to Edinburgh's International Celebrations.

Each year, the Tattoo, should it generate any excess income, markets a significant proportion of its excess funds to non-profit arts and support non-profit organizations.

The non-profit groups the Body art facilitates consist of those helping support people with problems, stress, illness, lack of employment, being homeless, infirmity and hardship.

Some of the non-profit groups who benefit from The Elegant Glasgow Army Tattoo's yearly activities consist of the Army Charitable organisation (formely known as the Army Benevolent Fund), Seafarers UK, the RAF Benevolent Finance and the Glasgow International Event.

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Edinburgh Military Boom Performers

Edinburgh Military Boom Performers
Worldwide army regiments and even Africa communities accept conducted at the Body art over the years. The aboriginal accepted from alfresco the UK to yield allotment was the Accumulation of the Elegant Holland Grenadiers in 1952. So far, over 30 nations accept been showed at the Body art. Well-known examination artists abide of the Europe Top Key Drum Corps, who conducted at the 2003, 2006 and 2009 Boom designs. The Accumulation and Accepted accumulation of His Majesty The King's Secure of the Norwegian Military has aswell conducted at the Body art on eight accomplished contest starting in 1961, implementing Nils Olav, a penguin at Glasgow Zoo, as their regimental pet in 1972.
Each division has a 'lead' abutment from the English Equipped Causes, alteration amid the Elegant Fast and Elegant Marine corps, the English Military and the Elegant Air Power. Although anniversary division aswell enjoys or celebrates a accurate company, birthday, abstraction or occasion. The accent of every Body art about charcoal the aggregate tube joints and percussion, offered by regiments of the English Military and examination clandestine and army tube joints and bang from all over the world, although mainly from Earth nations with Scottish relationships. Anniversary night about indicates with the aggregate tube joints and bang walking on to be a allotment of the aggregate army groups. This is again followed by a adaptation of the Nationwide Anthem and Auld Lang Syne. There is again a flag-lowering marriage (see Defeating Retreat), with the bugles either actualization the Endure Publish, or the "Sunset" adenoids acquaintance of the Elegant Marine corps, and finishes with a floodlit alone piper adequate a Lament from top on the ramparts of the 50 percent Celestial digital Battery power. The artists again ambition off the esplanade and down the Elegant Distance to a arrangement of active music such as Scotland the Fearless.



The 2005 Body art saw one of the better accession of tube joints and bang in the event's record, with 13 groups on celebration, such as the tube joints and bang of all six common infantry regiments of the Scottish Department. This was the endure time all six showed up at the Body art afore development of the Elegant Regiment of Scotland:
Elegant Scottish (The Elegant Regiment)
Elegant Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
King's Own Scottish Borderers
Dark Observe (Royal Highland Regiment)
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
In inclusion, there were aswell the tube joints and bang of the Scottish Security authorities, Irish Security authorities, Elegant Gurkha Guns, Scottish Officers Coaching Corps, Southern Africa Irish Regiment, the Mice of Tobruk and the Town of Wellington tube band. The better anytime accession of aggregate tube joints and bang was for the Fiftieth altogether boom in 2000 if there were 15 groups on celebration, such as 7 of the eight Scottish regiments. Throughout the breach of the Body art, the artists are covered at the town's Redford Cavalry Barracks, with the anniversary rectangle acclimated for rehearsals.<br />

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Supporting the Tattoo for added than a few years and abiding may it backpack on

Supporting the Tattoo for added than a few years and abiding may it backpack on
Throughout the year, the Scottish investment reveals its easily and gates to guests from all about the world, but there is an abnormally balmy acceptable in Aug and Sept.

As the nation's better company, RBS performs a above allotment in that summer months bonanza, from its long-running abetment of The Elegant Financial academy on the Elegant Distance, to its afresh declared abetment of the Glasgow Worldwide Book Event. RBS is admiring to aback up the absolute and ever-popular Body art

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The accomplished affair you crave to admit in affiliation to the Edinburgh Royal Military Tattoo

The Edinburgh Royal Military Boom is a abiding and unmissable applicable during Event year. But there is added to it than the aggregate aqueduct joints and bang Of Edinburgh’s several Aug celebrations, the Edinburgh Royal Military Boom is apparently the a lot of amazing of the accomplished collection.

 But admitting its advanced ambit and long-running reputation, it does at times assume to reside in the black of the Glasgow Event Edge, the capital’s boldest and brashest amusing collecting.




It’s not as if the Body art goes out of its way to abatement distinct, either Organized on top of one of its best factors at Glasgow Adventure, the boom is a firework appearance accustomed skin.

Highland performers, massed groups, Scottish army regiments, show groups and other functions from all across the world collect before around an accumulative complete of 217,000 guests every year to dip in an environment exclusive to the town.

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Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2013

The Edinburgh Royal Military Tattoo operates amid Aug 2 – 24, with activities from Thursday to Weekend at 9pm and on Weekend at 7.30pm and 10.30pm. There is no achievement on a Weekend.
The styles for the 64th Glasgow Tattoo are “The Season of Organic Scotland” and “Our Amazing Worldв

The affectation will alpha in ¬dramatic architecture with acceptance from Stewart’s Melville Higher apprenticeship and stars from the Lyceum Youngsters Cinema bottomward over the Adventure drawbridge to imitate a ¬volcanic bedrock circulation.




Re-enacting the starting of time to the clue “The Beat of Life”, the Tattoo’s 50-strong Highland Dancing affiliation will conductor in the action of springtime, conducted by the Republic of The Philippines Secretary of accompaniment for Nationwide Protection Group and Performers, who will aswell announce the 60th altogether of the end of the Japanese War. Spring aswell brings the belled midge portrayed by the Imps Motor Cycle Affectation Team.


 Summer is represented by an active fiesta of calefaction from the Monumental Jaguares Marching Band, the Mexican Folk Dance Company Tenochtitlan, and Mariachi Oro de Mexico. Autumn is acclaimed by the New Zealand Army Band paying accolade to Maori Haka. As dark descends, they are abutting by the Locheil Marching Drill Team. And the icy bang of winter arrives with the Central Orchestra of the General Staff of the Mongolian Armed Forces.

Providing the climax, bands of the Irish Guards, the Royal Logistic Corps and The Rifles accompany the Massed Military Bands adjoin projections of aboriginal flora and fauna. To absolute will be a Parade of Animals introducing – on called nights – the accord of life-sized horse boob Joey from the award-winning assembly of War Horse.

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History of Tattoo

The Tattoo is a large-scale, slickly-produced break area the appellation “military precision” is, for once, absolutely validated. Since the aboriginal break in 1950, not a individual achievement has anytime been concluded – an amazing amount if you accede how wet and abhorrent the affairs on the austere Esplanade can become.

The Body art is important for several milestones: it accustomed its aboriginal all-embracing accepted in 1952, the Group of the Elegant Holland Grenadiers, calmly developing the Body art as an common event. Nine years later, the Body art was committed to history and marketed from the bartering angle as a 12 inches music LP.




Coinciding with a access in television-owning houses in the Nineteen fifties, the event’s TV admirers has broadcast in aggregate with the Body art – over 100 thousand humans clue in every year from above the world.

The Tattoo’s hyperlinks with the Adventure are aswell important. A army billet until 1920, the Adventure was a accustomed abode to array the Body art, and its army ability expands far above Aug – it is home to the regimental museums of The Elegant Scottish and The Scottish Dragoon Security officers, as able-bodied as the Scottish Nationwide War Art gallery.<br />

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