Meantime Ceilidh

2010-03-18T10:53:00.000-07:00

Tha am blog air a dhol chun nan con ..cha mhòr. Nach ann mar seo a tha cùisean an còmhnaidh. Làn dhùil againn uile a dhol dhan gym trì tursan san t-seachdain, a’ gealltainn na toitean a chur bhuainn, ionnsachaidh sinn caismeachd 2/4 gach cealla deug agus ùrachaidh sinn am blog gach mìos. Och well, fhad ‘s nach robh dùil agaibh air a chaochladh..

Cuiridh mi an àrd pìos no dhà de bhàrdachd a thàinig am bàrr, a-mach asam, tromham, ‘s mi nam laighe le mo mhàileid mhòr air mo mhionnach ann am bus shelter taobh a-muigh Pheairt a’ feitheamh air a’ bhus Mhega airson mo thoirt a Ghlaschu.

Chuala mi gu robh duais £ 2000 ga thabhachd ann am farpais bhàrdachd air choireigin ann an Èirinn. Bha mi gu bhith pòsadh agus cha robh fada on a fhuair mi a-mach gu robh free bar gu bhith ann. Nach b’ iongantach na briathran drùidhteach a thaom asam……

Duff na Gàidhlig

Dhèanadh i duff
A bha drùidhteach
Dubh, cha mhòr
Na dhreach
Dearcagan tiormaichte
Dùmhail
Do-chunntail

Druidheag bheag de dhrama
Deur, dìreach
A’ drùidheadh troimhe

Cha deanainn fhìn
Duff cho math
Cha bu dùraig dhomh
Chan eil an dòigh agam
Gu dòigheil
Nam dhualchas
Nam dhùthchas
oir
‘B ann tro channtaireachd
‘Ic Chruimein
A dh’innseadh an reasabaidh
Agus cha b’ann
tro channtaireachd
Chlann Airt

Dirri din a drao
Dirri drao a din
(Dwelly, duilleag 160)

Gàidhlig na Lìnne Ùire (2)

2009-12-24T01:23:00.000-08:00

Thàinig am fiosrachadh na leanas bho fhear-aithris Meantime anns Na h-Eileanan Siar:

Spotted this at check in Stornoway [sic] today on screen above desk; instead of 'Turais-adhair' what's written is 'Turdais-adhair'

Am faigh a' Ghaidhlig bas? Chan eil.

What more can be added to that?

Gàidhlig na Lìnne Ùire (1)

2009-12-24T01:03:00.000-08:00

Anns an t-sreath phost seo bidh sgioba Meantime a' meòrachadh agus a' beachdachadh air inbhe na Gàidhlig anns a' bhliadhna a tha romhainn (2010) ann an oidhirp ri slìghe na Gàidhlig anns an àm ri teachd a shoillearachadh. An cois nam post seo bidh sinn a' dèanamh mhearachdan gramair agus litreachaidh, ag adhbharachadh mhearachdain gramair agus litreachaidh, agus a' togail air mearachdan gramair agus litreachaidh a bhios a' nochdadh cuideachd.

Naidheachd Mhath

Chaidh Daibhidh Boag a chur ri dreuchd manaidsear leasachaidh cànain air Bòrd na Gàidhlig - duine breithneachail, tuigseach, toinisgeil, agus fìor mhath air còcaireachd.

A series of forthright opinion by Meantime correspondents which will investigate and highlight the issues which will affect the Gaelic language in 2010.

2009-12-22T14:28:00.000-08:00

Meantime Christmas number one? Well not quite. We stuck a couple of tracks on the Independent Artists Company web site so long ago i only just remembered they were there tonight. It must be that new memory foam mattress ( developed ny NASA folks) that arrived today. Anyhow, the IAC is a site where you can add music and then people can listen to it and create their own radio stations. They have all the genres you can think of. Well i logged in just now and i see that Katherine's tune and Mrs Macleod of Rassay, from the Natives are Friendly album are riding high in the world music chart, number 160 out of 10,740 tracks. Leathad Lithir from An Treas Tarraing is at 957 out of 12510 in the folk/acoustic/Americana chart. I think this calls for some early Christmas champers... number 957 in the charts!

It is worth checking this site out http://www.iacmusic.com/

Meantime Band Meeting

2009-12-22T02:05:00.001-08:00

Bha latha ann agus chaidh Daibhidh B agus Tormod an sàs sa chèile (le sunnd). A meantime altercation settled like gentlemen.

2009-12-11T08:49:00.000-08:00

Welcome to our first post. We are running this blog to keep you all informed on what the band are up to. We have also linked it to our new web-site http://www.meantimeinfo.co.uk/ where you can go and have a browse and listen to some of our music. We have set up a new online shop aswell where you can download individual tracks or whole albums and we hope to post free downloads of live recordings or some of our new Gaelic songs. From time to time we will have some guest contributers, who knows who? You'll just have to keep posted.

The four of us in the band are involved in various other projects, schemes and scams and we will use this blog now and again to let you know just what. In the meantime, as it were, thanks for calling by, have a look at the website, download a few tracks ...hopefully it works!

Having just read over this i note the use of 'from time to time' and 'now and again'. Here is your first Gaelic online web-host vocabulary lesson....

Bho àm gu àm ( vo awm goo awm) = from time to time

An-dràsta agus a-rithist ( un draztu suh reesh-t) = now and again

We will definitely try and be more frequent with our posts than we have been on our old site.

durachdan
Tormod