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Kilchoman Distillery

Stephen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:42:40 +0000

Pigtown Fling will be playing on Islay at the Kilchoman Distillery open day on 27th May 2010. This is part of Feis Ile, an annual celebration of malt whisky and music.

Dent Folk Festival, Cumbria

Stephen — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:19:12 +0000

Pigtown Fling will be playing at The Dent Folk Festival, Sedbergh, Cumbria, England on Friday 26th June 2009. Chris is unable to make it so Rab and Stephen will be playing as a duo.

Puffer Bar, Easdale Island

Stephen — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:08:33 +0000

Pigtown Fling will be playing in The Puffer Bar, Easdale Island, Oban, Argyll, Scotland on Saturday 13th June 2009 to help celebrate one year under new ownership. This will be a particularly emotional gig for Stephen as he was, for over 10 years, the previous owner of The Puffer. Please come along and join the party!

Puffer Bar, Easdale Island, Argyll

Stephen — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:08:19 +0000

website theme experimentation

Stephen — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:15:10 +0000

I’ve started work on a new theme for Pigtown Fling’s website. I was looking for something a bit more dynamic that would encourage us to keep the content updated and fresh.
I have found a theme by http://designdisease.com/ that i quite like so have started with that. The colours are a bit garish at the moment, I think we will stick with the sky blues of the previous theme, so apologies for inducing vomit while i attempt to change them.

Combourg, Brittany, France

Stephen — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:29:58 +0000

Pigtown Fling will be playing in Combourg, Brittany, France on Saturday 8th August 2009.
More details to follow.

La Fresnais, Brittany, France

Stephen — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:24:50 +0000

Pigtown Fling will be playing in La Fresnais, Brittany, France on Sunday 2nd August 2009.
We will be playing some of our usual repertoire, but a large part of the gig will involve teaching Scottish ceilidh dances and hopefully playing for a few Breton dances too. We will be taking our dear friend Christophe Lefebvre with us on second fiddle and translating duties.

La Fontenelle, Brittany, France

Stephen — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:17:48 +0000

Pigtown Fling will be playing in La Fontenelle, Brittany, France on Saturday 1st August 2009. We have been invited to play at the Friends of Jean Langlais Festival for a second year running.
We will be playing some of our usual repertoire, but a large part of the gig will involve teaching Scottish ceilidh dances and hopefully playing for a few Breton dances too. We will be taking our dear friend Christophe Lefebvre with us on second fiddle and translating duties.

Ptuj 09 – day 8 – depature

Stephen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:13:51 +0000

Time passes quickly, and before you can say Nikoli Ni Ves it was time to leave. One more job to go though. The local tourist board is keen to expand the links between Slovenia and Scotland and wanted to do a photo and video shoot at the castle. It was bitterly cold, the fiddle couldn’t cope with the temperature so Sara had to mime the whole thing.
Promo shoot over it was time to have lunch with friends then pack up and leave, just stopping at another hotel to say goodbye to Maja and Doris.
1500 miles ahead, a much more difficult drive after 6 days of hard partying and little sleep.
We must say a huge thanks to everyone in Ptuj and Hotel Mitra who made our visit so special.
2010 anyone?

Ptuj 09 – day 7 – shopping centre?

Stephen — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:10:53 +0000

Today we started with one of the more bizarre of our gigs. In the heavy snow we made our way to the local shopping mall, Qlandia, where we wandered about in our Scottish Kurent costumes playing pipes and drums and generally harassing the local shoppers and shop keepers. This seems to go down really well and it’s not the first time we have played here, but can you imagine the same thing in Braehead??

On Tuesday, the final day of carnival, the good citizens of Ptuj all finish work at 12, don their costumes if they haven’t already and hit the town. All the pubs and hotels are full and there is a real party atmosphere in the town. We played around the hotel in the afternoon but spent a large part of the time struggling with our instruments. Moving between the hotel, the snow outside, the shopping centre, the wine cellar and the hotel had really taken its toll on the wood of the stringed instruments and the reeds of the pipes and we were struggling to keep them sounding good. We kept going like the true professionals we are and did our best…