Best Before Midnight - Covers & Ceilidh Band

Covers and Ceilidh Band

About Best Before Midnight's Music

Music Genre:Covers and ceilidh music
Area Covered: Throughout Scotland

What Makes Best Before Midnight Special?

• A good and balanced mix of covers and ceilidh
• Professional 5 piece band
• Superb male vocals
• Fun band who makes sure everyone has a good time

A five piece covers and ceilidh band, comprises Phil MacFarlane on fiddle, Fraser Campbell on keyboards, Craig Scott on drums and percussion, Ronald Webster on bass guitar, electro-accoustic guitar and vocals, Jim Campbell on lead guitar and harmonies. Best Before Midnight is one of Scotland's most versatile and richly talented ceilidh bands with an enviable wealth of experience in the music business.

In addition to countless other bands, performing many styles from classical music to jazz, Best Before Midnights' members have all worked together in previous musical incarnations, Phil and Fraser in the Canny Clamjamphries, Ronnie and Craig in ShoeString, and Ronnie, Jim and Fraser in Focus, to name a few.

The band ShoeString fronted by Ronnie, with Craig on drums and with Gillian Whitelaw calling for the ceilidh dances became a hugely successful ceilidh and covers band, performing at all the major ceilidh and wedding venues throughout Scotland, including Edinburgh and Stirling Castles and two years running the ceilidh band for the Hogmanay ceilidh at Cameron House Hotel Loch Lomond, arguably Scotlands premier hotel hogmanay ceilidh event.

During 2008/2009 Jim, Phil, and Fraser all became frequent stand-in musicians for ShoeStrings' regulars, and Craig and Ronnie found a common interest with these three in forming a new ceilidh and covers band, with a particular desire to create an entirely fresh, structured and high energy ceilidh sound, polished pop classics and covers, and Celtic folk/rock. And so Best Before Midnight was launched.

Best before Midnight use an eclectic mixture of traditional ceilidh tunes, ceilidh tunes with funky and catchy arrangements unique to Best Before Midnight, and ceilidh tunes such as "The Broken Chair" "The Cuckoos nest" and "Gillians Muckle Lochan" written and arranged by band members. This mix of music ensures no two sets are alike, music for each dance being vibrant unexpected and different.

And when you tire of ceilidh dancing or would like a change of mood, Best Before Midnight will slip into a set of polished pop classics, Rock and Roll, and modern covers. Or perhaps you just want to listen for a while, to Best Before Midnights' Celtic Folk/Rock music.

Pop Classics in addition to Ceilidh Music

• Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison
• Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
• Peaceful Easy Feeling, Eagles
• Rockin All Over The World, Status Quo
• Caroline, Status Quo
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Queen
• Sweet Home Alabama, Lynnrd Skynnrd
• Fly Me To The Moon, Sinatra

• Walk of Life, Dire Straits
• Johnny Be Good
• Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
• That's All Right Now Mama
• Wonderful Tonight, Clapton
• Amazed, Lonestart
• Daydream Believer, Monkees
• 500 Miles