The Highlander reboot is currently filming on the Isle of Skye — on the same iconic landscapes that made the 1986 original so visually unforgettable. And this time, everything points to something special.

Chad Stahelski, the director behind the John Wick franchise, guarantees the action sequences will be extraordinary. Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill carries his Scottish heritage in his name, while Russell Crowe has deep Scottish and  is directly descended from Simon Fraser, the 11th Lord Lovat, the notorious Jacobite known as The Old Fox.

With Karen Gillian on board we can be quietly confident the accents will be a wee bit closer to the mark than 1986. The casting across the board is formidable.

But there is a forty-year oversight that this production has a once-in-a-generation chance to correct.

In 1986, Runrig were already a colossus — 4.5 million record sales, stadium tours, the number one concert film in the UK and Germany — and nobody thought to ask them.

The island's extraordinary musical culture was invisible to the filmmakers on its own doorstep.
The Isle of Skye has produced some of the most exciting musicians in Britain — from the Peatbog Faeries to Niteworks to Valtos, and a new generation of pipers doing thrilling and entirely new things with one of Scotland's oldest instruments.

No one can replace Queen but now we have the director. We have the cast. Now let's get real Scottish music into this film.

We call on the Highlander production to engage with Skye's own extraordinary musical community.

And if they are wondering how a single island of fewer than 12,000 souls can keep producing world class musicians- well. 

It's a kind of magic