Playing In The Street
A convoy of portable toilets has been spotted heading up the A9 towards Inverness. No one has reported an associated convoy of prunes so this can only mean there is a rock festival taking place. Sure enough, it's the RockNess festival at Dores this weekend. It's been described as "one of the most atmospheric outdoor music events in Europe" - but only by me and just then. Naturally BBC Radio Scotland will be covering it and I might even mosey along myself. I must remember to iron my denims and launder my crazy 'Joker' t-shirt so that I don't stick out like a sore pinky.
Meanwhile the streets of Inverness are already alive to the sound of music. This lunchtime, for example, I was amzed to find the Austrailian rock/folk band The Wishing Well playing to a crowd of sun-drenched shoppers.
And as if that wasn't thrilling enough, you could walk fifty yards along the street and find the Bang On Boogie Band (all one of him) playing to a slightly smaller audience of onlookers.
It's all so exciting that I might even start tapping my feet.
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JZ looks absolutely fantastic. The steps behind the Bang On Boogie Band - is there still a record shope half way up those? Hope this is not near the shared streetscape though I dont think it is.
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Norrie..yes the record shop is still there.
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Jeff - in the top photo, the guitarist in the brown jacket looks amazingly like an ex-BBC member of staff of my long-standing acquaintance...
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Great to see that Mr 'Bang On Boogie Band' is still performing.
Not sure if you remember JZ, but when we were both students at the College of Knowledge in the late 80's, he was a regular on Buchanan Street, and easily the most enthusiastic of the street performers.
Mind you, as you were a regular in the union bar - a handy short walk from the West Building - then perhaps you don't remember.
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Crikey Jeff - next time I am in Inverness I am paying that shop a visit. That will be a real trip down memory lane.
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Niall
Of course, I have vivid recall...of the Union Bar. Nothing else though.
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#1, #2
I know the shop! Was in there every day on one particular holiday as the guy had just taken in a new load of records and took ages getting it all sorted! Way better hunting for records than hunting for Nessie... ;-)
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