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{{Short description|2007 live concert album by Runrig}}
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{{For|the novel by Margaret Atwood|The Year of the Flood}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}
[[File:Runrig 2008.jpg|thumb|right|DVD cover]]

'''''Year of the Flood''''' is the DVD and CD of [[Runrig|Runrig's]] Beat the Drum open air concert on 18 August 2007, filmed at Borlum Farm near [[Drumnadrochit]] on the shores of [[Loch Ness]].

It was the band's flagship event of [[Highland 2007]], a series of cultural events to celebrate [[Scottish Highlands|Highland]] culture and also seen as the realisation of growing desires to play a large open-air show in the Highlands, somewhat in commemoration to the legendary Loch Lomond open air concert of 1991, one of the undisputed highlights of the band's career.

On the night before the concert, after a long period of dry weather, rain set in and lasted throughout the day, at times as torrential downpour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hooked-on-music.de/CD-Reviews2/Runrig/Year_Of_The_Flood.html |title=Year of the flood, Sony/BMG, 2008|publisher=Hooked on Music  |access-date=2015-05-17}}</ref> This transformed the festival grounds and its car park into a veritable mud hole, evoking memories of the famous [[Woodstock]] festival 38 years earlier, and ironically fitted the name "Year of the Flood" of the first song of Runrig's new studio album ''Everything You See'', which had just been released in May. The festival started at around 1400 BST with supporting acts [[Vatersay Boys]], [[Aberfeldy (band)|Aberfeldy]], [[Julie Fowlis]], [[Great Big Sea]], [[Wolfstone]] and the [[Red Hot Chilli Pipers]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6954703.stm |title=Fans beat the mud to see heroes |publisher=BBC News|date=2007-08-20 |access-date=2015-05-17}}</ref> At around 2000 BST the audience of 17,000 people were asked to please drop their umbrellas so that the upcoming Runrig gig could be recorded for a DVD.

== Track listing ==
'''DVD'''

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# "Intro Music" (2:20)
# "Year of the Flood" (4:21)
# "Pride of the Summer" (4:22)
# "Road Trip" (5:09)
# "Proterra" (6:17)
# "The Ocean Road" (6:27)
# "An Toll Dubh" (2:45)
# "Sona" (4:04)
# "The Engine Room" (4:22)
# "Every River" (5:21)
# "A Reiteach/Drums" (6:10)
# "In Scandinavia" (6:05)
# "Clash of the Ash" (4:53)
# "Skye" (8:40)
# "Hearts of Olden Glory" (5:30)
# "Something's Got to Give" (3:48)
# "Protect and Survive" (5:39)
# "On the Edge" (2:55)
# "Loch Lomond" (7:36)
{{Div col end}}

Credits: ''Book of Golden Stories/An Dealachadh'' (3:12)

'''CD'''

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# "Intro Music" (2:05)
# "Year of the Flood" (4:21)
# "Pride of the Summer" (4:22)
# "Road Trip" (5:09)
# "Proterra" (6:17)
# "The Ocean Road" (6:27)
# "Sona" (4:04)
# "The Engine Room" (4:22)
# "Every River" (5:21)
# "In Scandinavia" (6:05)
# "Clash of the Ash" (4:53)
# "Hearts of Olden Glory" (5:30)
# "Something's Got to Give" (3:48)
# "Protect and Survive" (5:39)
{{Div col end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Runrig}}

[[Category:Concert films]]
[[Category:Runrig albums]]
[[Category:Scottish Gaelic music]]


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