The Kintyre Forum

Tickets for this years Mull of Kintyre Music Festival will go on sale at 9am on Thursday 26th June.

The Saturday Picture House, The Justin Currie Band and Survivors Night tickets will only be available from TicketWeb at http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region ... rface=mull or by phoning 08444 771 000

Tickets for the Friday Night Ceilidh and the Dalriada Connections Concert will be available from TicketWeb and from A.P. Taylors, Main Street, Campbeltown.

Tickets for the Young Folk Night can be obtained from A.P. Taylors, Main Street, Campbeltown.

Concert details are as follows

Thursday 21st August 2008
Young Folk Night (Heritage Centre) £6.00 (inc tea & cakes)
The best of the young musical talent from South Kintyre.

Friday 22nd August 2008
Festival Ceilidh Night (Victoria Hall) £14.00
Doors open 7.30pm start 8.00pm
Skipinnish
Bodega
Gillian Frame & Friends
Kintyre School Pipe Band

Saturday 23rd August 2008
All seated Concert (Campbeltown Picture House) £25.00
Doors open 7.00pm start 7.30pm
Capercaillie
Rod Paterson
MC Arthur Johnstone.

Saturday 23rd August 2008
Main Concert (Victoria Hall) £25.00
Doors open 9.30pm start 10pm
The Justin Currie Band
Attic Lights

Sunday 24th August 2008
Dalriada Connections Concert (Heritage Centre) £10.00 includes free sponsors miniature
Doors open 1.30pm start 2pm
Concert featuring Irish and Scottish traditional music with:
Jarlath Henderson & Innes Watson
Archie McAllister with Ross Kennedy
Lorne MacDougall
The Dalriada Connections Band

Sunday 24th August 2008
Survivors Night (Victoria Hall) £20.00
Doors open 7.30pm start 8pm
Wee Toon Tellers
The Lemmings
Session A83
MC Davie Robertson
and many more.

More details on each concert at the Festival Web Site http://www.mokfest.com and also in the MOK Fest section of the Forum.

Iain

Aaargh! Forgot about this and I see Survivors night tickets have sold out. Del Amitri for me then.

Out of curiosity, how many tickets are available for each concert? Or is that privileged info?

Sold out already! For Effs sake!

Annie wrote:Sold out already! For Effs sake!

You'll need to stop this early hibernation Annie .

Ach! Ahm ferr scunnered noo! Wiz hoping tae get tickets fer survivors night, but nae luck!

Any scalpers got tickets????

don't understand it

£20 to go and see local bands and it sells out in half an hour

Annie - are you coming over this year?

bud wrote:don't understand it

£20 to go and see local bands and it sells out in half an hour

That's typical Campbeltown if you ask me - never mind that you can see these local bands any time.

Perhaps the festival committee shouldn't bother trying to book larger bands at all and just have 3 nights of local bands. In fact, don't even bother with any bands at all - just tell everyone the festival is on and most people will quite happily go along to the pub and then say afterwards what a fantastic festival it was

"OMG," they'll say, "Best festival ever! And no music to get in the way of drinking in the same pub I visit every week of the year! Can't wait till next year, how are the committee going to top that?!!"

Malky

You're not far wrong Malcolm in fact, probably not wrong at all!

My little rant I haven't been on the forum for ages.

And it is the truth

Malky

Annie - are you coming over this year?

Yep! Will be home for about 10 days. Got my suite booked at Betty Ford already!!!

For the price of the tickets for the events at the Vic over the weekend, lets hope it doesnt turn out like the farce and waste of a nite at Hogmaney.....

Still its very expensive for the weekend's gigs compared to it used to be, suppose the commitee has to make ends meet after all the corperate tickets that get given away!

Oh and I see theres no drinking in the Burnside square Saturday evening, take it the Burnside Bash isnt on then? Was so much better atmosphere when everybody could roam between the pubs on the saturday night, but suppose the Bacon patrol need to be seen doing something!

Tubby the Tuba wrote:Oh and I see theres no drinking in the Burnside square Saturday evening, take it the Burnside Bash isnt on then? Was so much better atmosphere when everybody could roam between the pubs on the saturday night, but suppose the Bacon patrol need to be seen doing something!

Aye, the atmosphere in the Burnside Square was always enjoyable. However, it isn't anything to do with the police. I believe the committee got fed up of basically running an event that the pubs in Burnside Square did little if nothing to support. I remember when I was in the Committee a few years ago I was tasked with getting support for the Burnside Square events plus fringe events and it beggared belief the response and attitude the festival got. Basically a case of we don't need to do anything as will be busy anyway attitude (with the exception of James in the Burnside I might add). On the contrary pubs elsewhere in the town like McGochans and Whisky Macs would go out their way to have music and given the chance would have biten your left arm off to be situated in the Burnside Square.

I do however, hope the Police take a more supportive attitude to the outside drinking situation - especially those who applied for licences. Some of the incidents last year were cringe worthy and visitors to the town must have been thinking WHAT? The whole drinking outside in Campbeltown thing is another issue and reminds me to post something on this

Must admit it does surprise me that two top bands are playing on Saturday night and the Sunday night is sold out. I'm really looking forward to hearing Attic Lights and I think Just Currie will be excellent. Must be getting older mind you when I go for Saturday night before Sunday night!