The Vatersay Boys, who were nominated in the Best Live Band category at the 2006 Scottish Traditional Music Awards, will perform at the Pavilion on Saturday, May 31, following a sell-out gig in Campbeltown the previous evening.

Over the past six years The Vatersay Boys have been creating a stir of madness and mayhem throughout the Western Isles and much further afield.

Hailing from the islands of Vatersay, the most southerly populated island of the Outer Hebrides with a population of less than a hundred, and from neighbouring Barra, The Vatersay Boys are now well and truly established in the Celtic and Gaidhealtachd music scene.

This high-spirited Gaelic dance music group fronted by Michael Campbell of Vatersay (accordion) and Donnie MacNeil of Barra (drums) have gathered a fan-base for their rough, raw, no nonsense set of ceilidh dances which has seen them play to sell-out gigs across the Highlands, at the Hebridean Celtic Festival, Belladrum and Loopallu in Ullapool, in support of the legendary Runrig and, last Christmas, at the famous Barrowlands in Glasgow, in what was described in advance as "a ceilidh dance/concert/rammy not to be missed!".

The Vatersay Boys, it would appear, don't mess about with their music - their speciality is described variously as rough, raw, energetic, no-nonsense, breakneck barn dances, and they've attracted a huge cult following in their years of touring and performing.

They're famous for performing when, shall we say, not entirely stone cold sober, but don't appear to let this get in the way of their talent; suffice to say that a night out with The Vatersay Boys, whether listening to them on stage or joining them in the pub, is not a night for quiet reflection.