The Kintyre Forum

Ross Macinnes and myself are holding a songwriters night some time in march. We wanted to have a night where local songwriters can have a chance at airing their own material. We haven't decided on a venue as yet, and a date still has to be worked out, though we're working on the idea of the weekend after easter. We want to get a feel for how popular this kind of thing would be before we commit to anything yet, but it's likely that we would start the thing off on a small scale.

If there are any songwriters that are interested, please IM me, though we can't guarantee we will have time for everyone to play, though if there is a lot of interest, we would consider extending it over two nights.

I'll post all developments up on this thread, and please leave any HELPFUL input that you might have.

Cheers,

Kenny

Music Co are already doing this on a monthly basis, why not join instead of starting another one?

We were planning more of an annual thing. it was originally planned for a venue in glasgow with a couple of local boys that have moved out of the town, but it was too much trouble to organise a night at such a distance away, so it was thought to have an annual one in the town to attract writers and tourists from farther afield as well, maybe eventually having guest singer/songwriters to come down for it. The name bit has been a bit of trouble for us because we felt we had to mention Campbeltown in it, but we wouldn't want it to be exclusively writers from campbeltown, or else it would be the same folk performing every year. Maybe Campbeltown Night of Songwriters might be more apt.

Why not Campbeltown 1st Annual Songwriter's Festival ... or is that a little too scary for you Seems like March is a perfect time to do it, to get people psyched for the music festival in August.

March is still cold and dark - the 1st of May public holiday - would suit more people more.

just make sure its easier to find than the music co. which i thought had died off, glad to see it hasn't. i was invited to one of their meetings once and couldn't find it? telling me later i was at least two hours too early wasn't any help at the time.

i'd be interested from a spectator's viewpoint, don't think i'll be composing anything worth listening to in the near future (pause for Dr. Doob to comment) but i'd like to hear what others are up to, as long as its varied and not all folk/acoustic based, thats a folk club (not knocking folk clubs, used to attend the original in the royal back in the day) "herrin's heids and loafs oh breed"

should be awesome, im up fur it!

hopefully the night will be as diverse as possible. if trappers off on the proposed weekend, he promised to do a stint of dada poetry - cant quite mind the ins and outs, but a quick search on google would probably tell you.
Ive been to a couple of things where it seemed as if different bands/people went up and did the same song over and over again. Biut dreary after a while.
Hope to get LO up for a bit of mongolian throat singing too!

tell LO to remember to bring his hoover

I'll bring my trouser press

Ha! Throat singing and hoovers - my favourite combination, but you'll need a good pair of ears on the mixing desk.
If the Gen can still work his way round a B-flat Dyson and Kenny G is up to speed on an acoustic barn-brush we could really clean up.
Do the Trouser-Press, Baby!

your singing might be criticised but you'll never be accused of keeping a dirty hoose!