If anyone gets this i will be super impressed and should we meet i shall surrender 1 unit of yummy beer fluid or equivilant… here goes:
The Levellers are currently on tour. ( i was at their Leeds show last night)
they started the show with an ‘intro’ where piped in music played
the intro featured snipits of a GHB tune on bagpipes
can anyone name that tune?
Not without at least a rough go at some ABCs, or a sound clip. I wasn’t there, and my clairvoyance has never been the best, I’m afraid.
well it is SUPER DIFFICULT!
haha, found it on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLL7UwiynuY
though its not superdifficult any more 
They play an aire into a strathspey.
The aire starts off like The Dark Isle but it isn’t. It could be tuning phrase, given how short it is.
I don’t know the strathspey, sorry. It’s kind of catchy.
i think it will be the strathspey im intrested in learning…
a better video + audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLbaHKwPKw
you can learn it by ear from it. it’s in A mixolydian.
sounds like a pipe march to me, not a strathspey.
Could be. With us pipers sometimes it’s hard to tell 
Last summer I played some tunes for a friend of mine and he wanted to learn how to play the “strathspey.” It took me a few minutes to realize he actually wanted to learn the reel, just we point the reel so strongly he thought it was a strathspey.
The reason the tune in the clip sounds like a strathspey to me is because a) it’s played in 4, and b) it’s too dot/cut to be a 4/4 march. But it could be a piper playing a fiddler’s version of a pipe march. 
That’s a 2/4 pipe march, not a strathspey. I’ve heard it before but can’t quite place it. At a wild guess, I’d say it’s a sampled recording of the “Tannahill Weavers”, but I’d need to check through their recordings. I wouldn’t say it’s a “super difficult” tune at all. I’ll try to tack it down for you.
Didn’t take as long as I thought - it’s “The Crags Of Stirling”, apparently composed by one Hugh MacKay. Don’t think it’s the “Tannahills” though, I don’t recall them ever recording it, so I don’t know who’s playing it.
ps - Chris - if you want, I can send you a copy of sheet music, and I’ll even have a go recording it on whistle for you. Let me know.
“The Crags Of Stirling” is published on the Levellers album “The Levellers”, part of track 8:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levellers_(album)
Callum Williams is credited to play the bagpipes.
Bagpipe sheetmusic i found here:
http://breizhpartitions.free.fr/en/download_score.php/103_The_Crags_of_Stirling
note that as is common for bagpipe sheetmusic no keysignature is given, assume it is D and all Cs are C# and Fs are F#, i.e. in A mixolydian, fine for D whistle.
gongradulations and thanks kenny and hans for nailing it down!
a whistle recording would be nice if you fancey learning it - i intend to learn it on scots smallpipes but i dont yet own a set 
Interesting! It’s wild how much you can change a tune while still playing the notes. I probably wouldn’t have ever guessed 2/4 march because he skipped the repeats. The tempo seems pretty quick too.
Thanks for figuring it out.