Finley Quaye - Blackstairs Lounge

[MusicWicker]

Tickets are moving fast for this gig, so if ur planning on coming along I would get one this week. A lot of people who turned up on the night for Sergeant were turned away cos it was sold out.

A few Finley tracks to refresh the memory!

Sunday Shining - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh1mMjsPGjo

Love Gets Sweeter everyday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8seN9XowpA

Even After All - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=214cQIpcCIc

Dice 'on the O.C.' -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9IyJ3w4SWY

Or if you have Spotify -
http://open.spotify.com/user/crook01...J3DF4gfLdNBrnS

[cazmanian_minx]

When is it?

[MusicWicker]

Hey

Its Monday 28th October, £17 a tic from Blackstairs Lounge, Macallans Clothes Shop or online at www.ticketweb.co.uk

Cheers

[gixer]

The 28th of october is a wednesday.

[guitarzan]

I think it was a typo.

There is a thread in the "Music" forums which says that this is 28th September.

Hope this helps.

[MusicWicker]

Hey

Sorry my mistake, it is Monday 28th September. Not the best night in the world for a gig in Wick, but its the only day we could get him.

Cheers

[telfordstar]

Just me being nosey but what other acts have you got lined up for the future?

[MusicWicker]

Hey

At the moment

Sep 20th - Luke Plumb of Shooglenifty and Peter Daffy - Blackstairs Lounge
Sep 28th - Finley
Oct 10th - Brave New Apollo + The Boy Who Trapped the Sun - Blackstairs
Oct 24th - The Side - Blackstairs
Oct 31st - Cassidy + Call me Ishmael - Blackstairs
Nov 15th - Chris Helme (Of Seahorses) - Blackstairs
Dec 04 - Old Blind Dogs - Venue TBC

Theres a couple of big ones in 2010, the first of which is on Feb 13th but I can't say anything until the band announce it on their website on Sep 21st. Gonna be a good one tho!

[lagertops]

Is he on his own or with his band?

[Metalattakk]

Tickets are moving fast for this gig, so if ur planning on coming along I would get one this week. A lot of people who turned up on the night for Sergeant were turned away cos it was sold out.

A few Finley tracks to refresh the memory!

Sunday Shining - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh1mMjsPGjo

Love Gets Sweeter everyday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8seN9XowpA

Even After All - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=214cQIpcCIc

Dice 'on the O.C.' -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9IyJ3w4SWY

Or if you have Spotify -
http://open.spotify.com/user/crook01...J3DF4gfLdNBrnS

£17 on a Monday night? Pfff! Yer havin' a laugh, aren't ya?

No wonder you're on here trying to drum up business.

Good luck with it though.

[MusicWicker]

Yep, he will have the full band with him.

Monday night is a bummer right enough, but its the only night I could get him. Ticket price is pre determined by what the man charges, but if ur a Finley fan I think £17 is pretty good to see him in a wee pub in ur hometown.

[Serenity]

£17 on a Monday night? Pfff! Yer havin' a laugh, aren't ya?

No wonder you're on here trying to drum up business.

Good luck with it though.

Exactly what I was going to say. I was considering going until I saw the price in the courier.

[guitarzan]

Chris Helme is coming back?

Dancer...

I'll be there again, he was well worth a watch the last time - his own stuff was quality and a fine loon to boot.

[The Pepsi Challenge]

Yep, he will have the full band with him.

Monday night is a bummer right enough, but its the only night I could get him. Ticket price is pre determined by what the man charges, but if ur a Finley fan I think £17 is pretty good to see him in a wee pub in ur hometown.

Weird. Tickets to his shows in Edinburgh and Glasgow recently were no more than a tenner.

[MusicWicker]

and the capacity of those venues were?

[Camra]

Being realistic, once you factor in a punter getting to Edinburgh / Glasgow, overnight stay, grub and best part of 12 hours travelling to and from, £17 seems a steal for an intimate gig .

[buddyrich]

There's a bit of bah humbug about this gig.

It's not that cheap to drag a band up here to play in a rather small venue.

[The Pepsi Challenge]

and the capacity of those venues were?

Finley was booked to play the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh (a venue my own band have filled) not so long ago, but due to poor ticket sales, was moved to Henry's Cellar Bar, which, I assure you, is much smaller than the Blackstairs. Tickets were a tenner.

[The Pepsi Challenge]

Being realistic, once you factor in a punter getting to Edinburgh / Glasgow, overnight stay, grub and best part of 12 hours travelling to and from, £17 seems a steal for an intimate gig .

Well, if you live in Midlothian, it would cost a tenner to go see Finley. For those living in Caithness, it will cost £17.

[MusicWicker]

Finley was booked to play the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh (a venue my own band have filled) not so long ago, but due to poor ticket sales, was moved to Henry's Cellar Bar, which, I assure you, is much smaller than the Blackstairs. Tickets were a tenner.

Well put it this way pepsi, if I did it for a tenner I'd have about a £400 shortfall on his fee. So it's £17 or no gig.

And on the subject of fee, nobody ever seems to mention the 30 or so gigs a year we put on for free. Heres a wee example for you - Cassidy are on tour next month, heres where they are playing :-

The Warehouse - Aberdeen - £6
The Doghouse - Dundee - £6
Cabaret Voltaire - Your beloved Edinburgh - £6
Blackstairs - Wick - Free

Now out of these venues which ones are the gig venues and which one is a little pub?

Isn't there a Midlothian.Org or something that you can go onto and snipe at people that live a little closer to you? Cos you sure seem to have a lot of opinions about gigs that happen hundreds of miles away from you.