Anyway, back to the topic.
Have u asked Wick band Jude to play? They are bound to be a favourite with the crowd.
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Anyway, back to the topic.
Have u asked Wick band Jude to play? They are bound to be a favourite with the crowd.
I actually believe that the count ins were interupted by the drummer himself... have you ever met a drummer who can count?
no need! [evil] :roll:
how about KW1 or Deja Vu or After Hours or... anyone else?
Who's doing the sound?
How about digging up the bones of Discrepency, no?
Er, no. ;)
whats the exact date for this ???
month?
august 10th and 11th
pm me contact details, if any, for jude and i will ask them to play.
so K dragon give a look at the rosta now!?? in full as what u got now?
friday night:
Colin,redwall,waffles,high voltage,on honre, liquid blue.
saturday:
boss hogg, astronot, empty fortune, stevie taylor, duress.
so i need more applicants before mid feb so i can concentrate on the gig itself.
Excuse my ignorance and sheer lazyness to look for myself but when is the Big Gig on this year?
I read the 10th 1nd 11th elsewhere but i cant mind which month its in!!
Im working on a band at the moment (slow progress!), and i would consider us to be quite inexperienced. But alas we are not very young!! Which kinda puts me off thinking about asking for a slot.
Can you imagine it? Redwall (In whatever one man band Andy comes up with! he he) would clearly out shine the likes of myself, who would actually make better use of my axe cutting down trees!!
Its a better split of the bands you have (and indeed more pc) into newcomers and crowd-pleasers.
I agree with a previous post that the lineup should be staggered between the new/experienced bands throughout. In the form of maybe a higher concentration of new guys playing earlier and experienced guys playing later.
This will give everybody exposure to different crowds. Also there will be less grief with all the experienced guys spread throughout the limelight of the two nights instead of packing all the big guys in a oner!
Didnt make much sense written down but i know what i mean!
comments?
p.s. What are the arrangements for technical as far ads artists go? e.g. lights and sound?
BK
listen up for the last time, i understand everyones input but there are too many bands for one night!
im trying to give the youth of our music community a night to have to themselves. if they are inexperienced fine. but i have scouted most of the bands that are playing and they are more than worthy to play.
if you want that line up of young then old, then it gets cut down to one night, and half the bands play, and if thats the case then it might as well be held in the new redwood or holborn or way inn hall, with a lower sound rig and no lights or high staging, with lower grade equipment, where everyone can come and get hammered and not listen to the bands at all.
cause thats what your all asking for.
ttia arent a multi million pound corporation so everyone should be grateful that they are forking out what cash they have for this, and anything made at these events goes back into the town, as in more musical stuff, if there is a demand for it.
i appreciate evryones input, but if you want that format then the experienced ones will outshine the young. is it such a bad thing to allow young bands a chance to broadcast there sound in an enviroment and atmosphere where they can perform as a band and not stand in a small corner at the back of a pub where everyone is getting drunk and not really listening to the band, apart from the one old geezer who drags his drunk wife in front of the band and does a merry jig.
again as clash 67 wrote a while ago everyone shouts out for these kind of events but they tear it to shreds when its getting done.
and if the format you ask for is given then whose the unlucky young band that goes on stage first to a group of 15 people doddling about, who were eager enough to come on time, they play to a mediocre crowd and as the night goes on the crowd grows more and more and thats when the older bands play. they get the bigger crowd while that young band played to less than a high school classroom. does not seem fair at all. so i give them a night to their own. and to have a member of the musical youth community have doubts about a night dedicated to them is shocking.
My 2p worth.
Friday night. Young bands. People go to Skins. All the young bands play in front of absolutely no one, confidence shattered.
Saturday night. Older bands. Everybody goes. PLace is heaving. Great night had by all.
Or Friday and Saturday nights, put a mix of old and young on BOTH nights. You end up with average numbers on both nights and probably an average buzz.
Tough call.
midi i like your input.
constructive not destructive.
i see your point, with that.
mixing them had occured to me.
shall consider that.
Just checking.......have Nemesis signed up for Big Gig?
And if you need a suggestion for a jazz band, get Jitz if you don't already
nemisis are on
Erm, the two nights with mixed is what i was going for. if you would read my previous post you would have found it!!
I am actually confused now, are you likeing the idea of two mixed nights or not?
u dissagreed with me then u agreed with zeb. ?
Im not picking, but i think it should be evened out.
I agreed with zebedee before and i am again, although he actually repeated his first post aswell!! he he.
Ill endevour to write shorter posts in the future eh!
BK
I agree, I think it should be mixed, whenever you attend a more than one day event like say T in the park or something, they don't out all the newer acts on one night and the more well known ones on the next, nobody would come for the first day. once the final lineup of bands is certain, I woud take what you think is your two bigest crowd pullers and put one on each night.
Imagine a situation like when your kids, ther is 12 of ya and the two best players pick sides for a game of footy, each picks a player he wants until they get down to the fat kid, that way you have a good selection each night and the headliners will pull along the people who really want to be there for the night to hear their favorite band top it all off.
I am of the opinion putting all young bands on one night and all older bands on the next night may be a disaster. But its early days and these are the things you got to think about.
good luck
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Imagine a situation like when your kids, ther is 12 of ya and the two best players pick sides for a game of footy, each picks a player he wants until they get down to the fat kid, that way you have a good selection each night and the headliners will pull along the people who really want to be there for the night to hear their favorite band top it all off.
Good idea. Maybe they could 'tic-tac' for first dibs? Or would it need to be 'one-potato-two-potato'?
:D
But seriously...good idea. Two nights in a row is going to be hard enough to get people to subscribe to as it is. Best to make it as hard as possible to decide which one would be the 'best'.
How about a live webcam draw for the slots?
Great advertising, PR and you don't get blamed for who's one first/last and what day!!
Just a thought (though I know Jeid will contrive some glib response on a detail of the use of my English . . . . . - he likes to argue it appears, on that at least we all agree).
Anyway this was another of those areas when as an organiser you just can't win.:confused
Aint had tea in ages chobbers!
its too much coffee is my problem.
Just another question ive come accross while pondering in the office.
What time is the gig planned to start on the friday?
because its one of the working days of the week (well for a lot of us) naturally the concert would be planned to start after dinner. around 6 or 7 i suppose. on the same idea saturday is (for a lot of us) a day off. and im assuming more of an all day event.
so if the plan of "younger" guys on friday and "older" guys on saturday, would that not mean that you will be putting on a lot more older bands, to pad out around 12 hours, and fewer younger bands, to cram them into the 6 hours say, avaliable on friday night?.
Just wondering what your thoughts were on this Kdragon?
(p.s. this is not critisism)
well other than the bands on roster nothing is concrete yet as its early days.
due to the response on the forum...
i will make it a mixed two day event.
also i quite like the internet live draw lol
i am planning to have the gig start at five and once we get a big enough crowd gathered start the music.
saturday is an all day event.
so once again if anyone has contact details of bands that they want asked to play or know they want to play then please pm me
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Considering I haven't posted in this thread in 3 days, that was a pretty poor statement.
achhh the children are at it again
with sooooooo many opinions & views I think that everybody should join TTIA & give the Dragon man's lug a rest. It's a hard task to be in charge of an event the likes of which is coming together for TBGII. Hats off to Gogglebox for last year along with my help along with a few others it worked out not to bad
Ahem I had some orger dude called Deemac pointing out the pitfalls then as well
I've been asked what my opinion is regarding the out of town location. I was at the last EOTW concert & it was nowhere near as busy as was hoped. It makes sense that all tha has to be done is take a taxi or a short walk BUT it's apathy
I used to play in Tain OK in various places & always had a reasonable time of it. We stopped gigging Tain for a while due to lack of a decent venue. Right OK the point is somebody bit upon the bullet & opened the Carnegie Lodge hotel as a venue, great stuff he tried his best to make it a venue worth going to & I suppose it wasn't to bad really, but the thing that put people off was they had to go slightly out of town. 5mins across the A9 to be exact & that small travelling distance was the difference between a packed house & a handful....................I've read all the threads etc etc & you could have the event on Mars & I'm pretty confident there'd be Martians in Skins before 12
Go for it Dragon, the only point I have to make & I made it to Gogglebox right on our 1st ever meeting & I'll keep on making it is that running alongside Belladrum tartan hearts is nuts. You could have a dance to mark the end of the gala & run the festival the weekend after. I konow a lot of people that would most likely support the local event but they have their Belladrum tickets bought & paid for
It's a hard world your in Dragon. Start feeding steroids to your chin
aye a live draw would be good to ensure there is no bickering about it's been rigged that so and so has to go first or on friday etc.
Mixing the older and younger bands is a good idea to get equal people on each night
Why not get Cinema For Thurso Group to do the filming & broadcasting?
If you want your gig to gleam
Stand out from the poor mainstream
If you wish to hit big time
Rarified air, not pool of slime
Once decision has been made
You should get professional aid
In Thurso there's a corporation
Broadcast to the wider nation
BFT, BFT, Campaign for cinemosity
BFT, BFT, guaranteed animosity
In order to ensure success
You must your copyright address
And grab some words, declare your right
Defend that phrase with all your might
Ne'er mind 'bout silly legal things
Cos in your head you're king of kings
BFT, BFT, the group that's made for you and me
BFT, BFT, for negative publicity
A staff of one, himself he chose
With floppy shoes and a big red nose
And then it starts to get quite sad
You manifest yourself as mad
You try to sue the local town
Which causes charitable frown
The people who indulged your ass
Suddenly put you out to grass
And like a silly dilletante
You find yourself irrelevant
BFT, BFT, They tried to sue the world you see
Edge of the World and Big Gig too
Tea in the Park's the next target, Oooh!
The way to grab control you see
Is claim that words like 'Park' & 'Tea'
Are able to be grabbed for free
At least where applied locally
The problem is, in legal sense
(Forgive my seeming ignorance)
Is, (let me make sure it's spelt right)
The concept is a toad of plite!
BFT, BFT, We wonder who on earth are you
To fantasise and try and sue
A charitable local crew
BFT, Oh BFT, You really have fell out your tree
You need to see a shrink or three
Or go and get some therapy
(Repeat to fade)
Names have been changed to protect etc....I'm sure we could continue...however we might get locked!
LMAO!!!!
cheered me up that did
Genius Tubthumper! I needed that...
Priceless!!
A genuine talent Tubthumper!!
Ta Much. Must have had some effect, the thread's not bin locked yet!
Aaaaaaaaaaah, i hath been away from this for quite some time,
Yet more ideas spinning from side to side, well, im personally looking froward to seeing all the duress wannabe acts and, as ive read here, the how to be "Reevalikes" hahaha
all in all the big gig 2.................hhhmmm, the names not quite right, as the line up is it should be "THE WANNABE DURESS ACTS SHOW, With a hint of Reevalikes"
Yup, that sounds about right
HOOOOOOOOOHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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