Hi all,
I suddenly had a thought. To my knowledge, not all towns our Wick and Thurso's size have such a striving and diverse music scene. I mean i could real of loads of bands for past and present from the local area. You only need to look at wickbands.co.uk to find proof. And yet, i have noticed that bigger places, like say Glasgow, Leeds, Reading and Cardiff, who also have thriving diverse music scenes, although obviously on a country wide scale, and they have festivals to celebrate. So how come we can't?
I remember being told that, many years ago, there was going to be this big gig thing happening up here. It was taking place in a kind farmers field and was going to feature local talent and country renound bands. Obviously not the biggest ones, but they were big names. Now, we have the people would are into music with local connection to organise it, we have plenty of local talent to play for 30mins at least, and if possible original material, and if we can get record people up for a Blue Monday, surely some strings could be pulled to get some not band bands up here?
Maybe i'm being completely stupid, and if so please tell me now. But, in all seriousness, why not? Can you image it, Idlewild and Jinx'd, Ocean Colour Scene and Acid inc?? Could it happen? Ildewild are fround round here after all? Could be persuaded? Well i think i've said about all i can. I really think if it's at all possible we should push for it. If there is interest i might even start a campaining website for it. With the bigger bands as well, you'd get people coming up for it too? Maybe those bands are too big, but you never know. Lemmie know your thoughts.....

Still dreaming....

dmore