With what looks like either extreme dedication, or extreme pre-Christmas profit-seeking on the part of their record company (or, most likely, both), the pipers and drummers of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards have just put the finishing touches to their latest album, in a tent on the Iraqi frontline. The military band - whose last record Spirit of the Glen proved a surprise Christmas hit last year for their label Universal, occupying the classical No 1 slot for 14 weeks - had to abandon work on their follow-up, the imaginatively titled Spirit of the Glen: Journey, for a six-month tour of duty. Undeterred, the label followed them to Basra, and recorded them in a tent, inside which temperatures rose to 50C; one piper came down with heatstroke. Not much of a break from the line of fire after all, then.