Howlin' Gaels

[swavey]

You should get a full house on sat moncur!i here the capacity of the blackstairs has gone up to 30 now!and if you were supporting the gaels wouldn't you stay until to the end to show...........eh! ah yeah,SUPPORT!!!!!????

[moncur]

You should get a full house on sat moncur!i here the capacity of the blackstairs has gone up to 30 now!and if you were supporting the gaels wouldn't you stay until to the end to show...........eh! ah yeah,SUPPORT!!!!!????

lol yip we all know its a small pub but the atmosphere makes it a good place to play. To be honest I would stay to watch, cheer them on etc until 11.45 then id be off to skins. Dont ask me why, its just what I do.

Wee known fact:
Today is 3 years exactly since my first gig with Duress, and it was in the Redwood funnily enough. After 2 broken strings (and lack of spare guitar because i was drunk when i went home to get ma stuff and forgot to check that ma spare guitar was in the hardcase!), me and fellow guitarist Bones had had enough, ended the gig and joined the flock heading to skinandis. Theres no moral behind the story, and no arguement with it either. Its just a bit of random information I wanted to share

[K dragon]

beleive you me, we would pay the bands but we cant.

the overall idea is to build a scheme where we can make a small profit each year, get the ball rolling. im in charge of other projects this year and hopefully next year also which will build up some funds for next year.

big gig is a community effort until we can start paying. bare in mind its takes up to 3 grand just for gala week, the liscences the floats, the secuirity. it all takes time and money.

and its not a thankless gig because unlike some people all the bands involved have been greatful. we cant give you what you want until the community helps and puts a little in and not sit and moan about it on a caithness music forum.

a lot of the money also goes into the people helping since isaac is being paid a substantial amount for sound. we just cant afford to pay everyone. there are many bands and no money because the community refuses to get off their butt and help. thurso football club have been very helpful as many others have been too. but frankly a few comments in here worry me.

swaveys one about the thanklessness. we are not a music group, or company. we have no equipment pre stored or owned. it has been done once by someone who has never done something on this level before. that was last year.

im doing it this year out of my own free will. i dont get paid. i took it on voluntary and quite frankly if i knew this much work and HASSLE and was gonna cause me this much grief which in my current condition is somewhat damaging to my health, i would have asked for payment but in the end i suppose i dont want it. because on that night i know that those bands will do what they love, play some kickin tunes, with a decent crowd. i originally wanted the gaels to headline and had there good buddy jeemag ask them for me. but it was a no.

many of the bands have had no issues with payment and just want to play. they have been really helpful and have all had a say in what goes on and i still encourage that. i even passed on that little info about same size trucks as someone joked they almost broke their foot last year.

i would also like to add that a bigger band was scheduled to headlined known as darkwater who just finished a european tour from glasgow. and they offered to play for free as long as we gave them accomodation. they has a very good attitude and realised that we couldnt pay them but even then the manager knew that the music scene up here was dying and offered them for help. now someone in the big gig thread this year and last year mentioned it didnt seem fair to bring people from down south up to headline because then it wouldnt be a local gig..... so i passed up the very generous offer, and jumped straight to the gaels. passed that one up.

so as for the thanklessness, fair dos, saxifur probably do a better job with a better attitude anyway.

and i certainly wont be making the same mistakes and choices i did his year when i do it next year, if i have still have the honour to do so.