2011

Wall of Rock Review

Christina Tatlow reviews Wall of Rock for invernessGiGs: Lossiemouth is renowned for its switching on of Christmas Lights, RAF Races and now its Youth Rock festival,Wall of Rock. Now In its second year and stemmed from a flippant suggestion one day of having a rock festival in Lossiemouth for young people – a beautiful monster was born. Dan Edwards is the man to thank for organising and hosting 24 music acts and DJs over the course of Friday and Saturday. Lossie was alight with stage decking fit for Glastonbury and the talent to match. Kicking off the event was DJs … Read more

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Watching and Talking to The Animals

The word legends can be genuinely used to describe The Animals, who played at the Eden Court on Sunday the 4th of September. Three songs in to their set and ‘We Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ rifts into life. Barefooted lead singer Peter Barton, with his trademarked long hair and leather jacket did not fail to disappoint with his rendition of Ray Charles “ I Believe In My Soul” and carrying a big Voice through many a hit through the evening. Christian Madden on Organ/Keyboards had fingers that were on fire! he owned the stage and crowd with his … Read more

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Wizard 2011 Friday Review

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The Wizard festival drew us in this year, with the word of mouth on the festival, along with a strong line up, creating a buzz that proved irresistible. This was our first time at The Wizard and so with a buzz of excitement, and with e the tones of Celtallica in the background, we set off. We were impressed. The simple parking and one way system, accompanied with the closeness to the site created a hassle free entrance and a secure but polite security check. Last year experiences of the muddy first day had obviously scarred some, but this year … Read more

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Rhythmnreel and The Frues storm the Pavillion

An audience of nearly 250 came together to raise funds for The Kids Of Kolkata Trust at Strathpeffer Pavilion on the 12th of August 2012. It was great to see businesses, bands and of course people come together to help fund raise.   Around 250 people attended, with the current total raised well over £1000. It’s hard to review an event at the best of times especially one that invernessGiGs were so involved in arranging, so we were very pleased when one of our writers, Lori Williams, volunteered: The Kids of Kolkata ceilidh dance was organised by Chris Lemon to … Read more

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Saturday at Belladrum 2011

The journey continued for Frankie Boy to Saturday….. Back on site one of my first assignments was to track down the Wee Jaunt being set up by Detour. Announced 24 hours before on social media sites the start location was the Big Face Meeting Point. In the minutes leading up to the one o’clock start a number of people began to loiter in the vicinity. However, on arrival the Detour team had to announce that the Wee Jaunt had to be cancelled, due to a number of reasons including the lack of an acoustic guitar and one of the artists … Read more

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Local bands grow from Seedlings to Garden Stage

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Last year it was The SIde that were promoted from the Seedlings to the Main Stage, this year we have two local bands making the jump in He Slept on 57 and Iain McLaughlin & The Outsiders. invernessGiGS has a huge amount of time for Iain McLaughlin & The Outsiders and the promotion to the main stage is a great acknowledgement of the huge amount of effort the band have continued to put into the scene over the last year. They missed out on our ones to watch at Belladrum 2011 and for that we should be shamed. The other … Read more

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Alice Bentley talks to invernessGiGs

  In order to promote the Hen Stage we managed to speak to Alice Bentley about her new act, Young Trees and there forthcoming performance at Belladrum 2011. invernessGigs: Hi there Alice Bentley would you like to give a quick bio about yourself? Alice Bentley: Hey, we met at Feis Rois 2007 but only started doing original music this year. We love all types of music but if you had to put us in a genre it would most likely be new folk. iG: What would you say are some of your biggest influences? AB: We are influenced by many … Read more

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Hen Stage Preview

For the forthcoming Belladrum Festival we have a series of articles from Mark Thompson looking at one of the new stages: Each year the Belladrum Tartan Heart festival brings up many new and exciting features , this year the festival consolidates this with the inclusion of a new stage. The Free Range Folk Stage, ran through the Highland Environmental Network or HEN, brings together a mixture of classic folk, singer/songwriters, folk rockers, acoustic crossovers and everything marginally folk in-between. The brand new stage, set up by Glachbeg Folk Club organiser Rob Bull brings together a fusion of all folk music … Read more

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