Where the band's other special guest, King Creosote, fitted into their thinking wasn't quite so convincing, even allowing for his native East Neuk of Fife sharing fishing as a key industry. But if his brief cameos caused a certain flatness to enter the programme, Fiddlers' Bid's continued progression as they sweep along in their third decade together – a statistic that will give pause for thought – ensured there were plenty of peaks. Right from the start they showed they're intent on, and succeeding royally in, taking the music further, teasing ever more adventurous and beguiling harmonies from the ring dance tune that they brought back from a memorable festival appearance on Faro and then going on to feature harper Catriona McKay's fabulously high tensile extension of the jig-playing tradition on the Apo Fetlar Top set.





