A band of academics has formed what is possibly the world’s most intelligent band.
Dry Island Buffalo Jump is comprised of two professors and five university lecturers who have a staggering 18 degrees between them.
The St Andrews University colleagues have just released their latest composition on Youtube and it is already proving a huge hit, with almost 4,000 views in the space of a few days.
The gentle ballad, Auld Grey Toon, tells of the attractions of the ancient Fife town and the video shows scenes of the band and students enjoying themselves in various locations.
It is the second of two songs written and recorded to celebrate the university in its 600th anniversary year.
The first, the Dream of St Rule, was a rabble-rousing anthem about the legendary founding of the university town in the Middle Ages by St Rule, who brought the bones of St Andrew from Asia Minor to the remote coast of east Scotland for safekeeping.
The aim is to raise awareness, and hopefully money, for the university’s 600th anniversary student scholarship fund.
Members of Dry Island Buffalo Jump are appropriately named with English lecturer Chris Buffalo Jones; French lecturer Dave Evans as French Buffalo, Bald Buffalo Norman Reid, keeper of the university’s manuscripts; history lecturer Buff Me Clean, otherwise known as Simon Maclean; retired history lecturer, Grandpa Buffalo Chris Given-Wilson and divinity lecturer, Shy Buffalo Gavin Hopps.
The band unveiled their new song at the university’s graduation ball on Friday to a rapturous crowd.
Chris Jones told The Courier: “We wrote the song when the university was celebrating its 600th anniversary last year and released it again to raise money for the scholarship fund.”
He continued: “The idea is to raise enough to send people to university for free.
“The students have formed their own online TV company called Bubble TV and they asked to make the video to go with it.”