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The Democrats, Violent Echo and The Lemmings are the first bands to be booked for the second J.I.G. Events/Dunaverty Hall Fundraising Christmas Night Out on Saturday December 15th in what promises to be the big party night out in the run up to Christmas.

The Democrats although recently formed have already become an extremely popular band featuring musicians from throughout Kintyre, they appear along with local band Violent Echo who played to a very enthusiastic crowd at last years event. The Lemmings hailing from Tarbert, have just produced their latest demo “Sounds Like Violence”, make their first appearance in the Victoria Hall.

The Hall will have a tables and chairs layout to accommodate the many Christmas party nights out that will be on that weekend. Expect more bands to be announced shortly.

Tickets at £14 will be available from A.P. Taylor's Main Street, Campbeltown.

For more information email jigevents@hotmail.co.uk or phone 01586 552034.

Will post up more info on each band and the final line-up once it is all confirmed.

IainJ

The Twisted Melons and Soviet Medicine have now been confirmed for the Christmas Night Out on Dec 15th bringing the number of bands playing to five over what will be a five-hour concert. They join The Democrats, Violent Echo and The Lemmings in a line up of all Kintyre based bands.

The Twisted Melons who played at last year’s event started out in Campbeltown and are now based out of Glasgow. Soviet Medicine, again a Campbeltown band play their first big concert in the Vic and will start the night off.

Tickets are currently getting printed and will be available shortly from A.P. Taylor's Main Street, Campbeltown.

I will post up a bit more about the bands in the run up to the event which will also have a special DJ mix to finish the night.

IainJ

Looking good Iain - The Lemmings are an excellent band and will definitely impress.

What's the licensing arrangements? I have a 17 year old here who will want to go.

Malky

Malky

Admittance will be for 18 year olds and over only.

IainJ

some good quality, straight from the desk recordings of THE DEMOCRATS gigging on Arran can be found here ...

http://thedemocrats.bebo.com

It has to be said, several members of the band were extremely un-sober during this recording ...

how and ever it's still okay I think

It's all 100% live ... no overdubs, backing files, machines or any of that ...

Pound Three Dot Seven Three, what a band, some really really good stuff in there. Especially like the Pink Floyd, Coldplay, the Mony, Mony part of the medley, etc.. Unsober or not, good stuff!

Looks a good night out.

How is fund raising for the hall going?

sounds good but i'm damned if i can remember my password to leave a nice comment, so i'll leave it here for the time being


sounds good

what were you lot expecting? flowers!!!!

And of course this too.

Ach, General, Jees ask wan o' the weans and they'll tell ye yer password!

Never mind, I see ye got a new wan!!! LOL

Soviet Medicine



Formed 7 years ago, the band originally come from Campbeltown and began playing in Glasgow as the Foxy Mops in 2000. They re-launched the band back on the scene in 2004 with the new name Soviet Medicine with in their own words "a tighter, funkier edge to their sound".

The band who will open the Christmas 2007 Concert and play in their first J.I.G Events/Dunaverty Hall concert are

Neil Duncan on guitar and vocals
Ian Gardner on drums and
Craig McGlashan on bass and vocals.

You can check them out at the following link

http://www.bebo.com/foxymedicine

They list their genre as Rock, Psychedelic and Indie

Tickets for the Christmas Concert 2007 are £14 and are available from A.P. Taylor's Main Street, Campbeltown. Doors will open at 8.30pm with Showtime at 9.00pm, for further information, email jigevents@hotmail.co.uk or phone 01586 552034.

Will post up more info on each band as I get it.

Iain

Iain, we've created a new thread in another forum that lists all the local bands with links to their Bebo/Myspace websites. It includes all the bands playing at the Christmas concert.

Link here http://www.kintyreforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4865

Malky

if you didna know they were all nice boys they'd scare the auld folk

The Lemmings



The Lemmings were formed a few years ago in Tarbert before reforming around April 2007 when they started gigging around Glasgow. The members of this four piece band are Paddy Mahoney on vocals and rhythm guitar, Ben Fitzgerald on lead guitar, vocals and piano, Dean Hawthorn on Bass and Stewart McCheyne on drums and backing vocals. They have recently released a demo CD, “Sounds Like Violence” and play the Victoria Hall for the first time.

Up and coming gigs for the band are at the Victoria Hall, Campbeltown on Dec 15th, King Tuts, Glasgow on 26th December 2007 and Nice n Sleazys, Glasgow on 25th January 2008.

For more information on the band go to http://www.bebo.com/thelemmings or go to http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... d=64735169

Tickets for the Christmas concert on Dec 15th are £14 and are available from A.P. Taylor's Main Street, Campbeltown or phone 01586 552034.

Iain