Throughout its competitive history, the band had not won the World Pipe Band Championships until 2023, though it has been runner up four times and has won the drum corps prize 6 times to date under Tom Brown MBE and his son Gordon Brown.
[1][2] In 1972, a few townspeople of Boghall in West Lothian decided that they would try to form a pipe band.
An advertisement was put in the local newspaper for young people wanting to learn the pipes or drums, and a group of primarily young players began practising at a Bathgate school.
[3] The band as a whole proceeded to win the Scottish, British and European Championships during that decade.
[4] The band travelled to Ontario in 2013 for the 50th anniversary of the Cobourg Highland Games, to compete and perform in concert.