Montrose Music Festival
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- Group created: September 2007
- www.bebo.com/montrosemusicfest
- Official website:
- www.montrosemusicfestival.co.uk
- Me, Myself, and I
- We are a non-profit, volunteer organisation, dedicated to promoting free live music of all styles and genres, and at all levels, in Montrose and surrounding areas.
Our goal is to build on the success of the first festival of 2008 and put Angus on the map as a live music destination, ensuring that Montrose Music Festival becomes, and remains, a nationally recognised, and much anticipated, annual event.
We also hope to maintain a presence throughout the year with fundraising concerts, gigs and other events associated with the festival. Please support the festival in any way you can.
For full details visit www.montrosemusicfestival.co.uk
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Ocean Colour Scene to play Montrose Town Hall
We are proud to announce that Ocean Colour Scene will play Montrose Town Hall on February the 20th 2010. Visit http://www.montrosemusicfestival.co.... for full details.6 Comments 47 days
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Joni Fuller + Support, the official unofficial review ...
The following review appeared on the MMF guestbook the day after the concert ...
Duncan Watson - 2009-09-06 16:42:38
MMF Fundraiser Gig - 5th Sep 2009 – The Unofficial Review
Wow, what a great night that was. I can honestly say that no one act stole the show - they were all superb.
To start with, Rachael Baird took the stage. Alone with her guitar, she held her own in the face of temperamental technology. Once it was sorted, she played a professional set, comprising of a nice mix of cover versions and her own material. This was greatly appreciated by the crowd.
Then on came The Tomlinson Brothers, who are an interesting mix of characters. Nevertheless, once they started to sing, they neatly harmonised to backing tracks, played their own tracks and finally ended on a beautiful acapella song. They indeed have three great voices.
Then Joni took the stage for what was to be the first part of her set that night. With her 4 piece band, she played a ballad-orientated set, wooing the crowd with songs old and new. One of the loveliest and saddest songs was “Paper Cuts” which is on her current EP. It went down well with the audience and allowed them to appreciate the breadth of her song-writing talent.
A short break ensued while the near-capacity crowd recharged their glasses and then on stage came The Bs and Cs. Even though this was an acoustic night of music, they still managed to power into their songs. Covering "Sweet Child Of Mine" on acoustic guitars is no mean feat and they carried it off very well. Jenna Morrow vocals are exceptionally strong and she is a very talented singer who is destined to go far.
All of the above acts had been introduced by our MC of the night. It turns out that this MC was indeed Gary Anderson himself, who came on to do his set of his own songs, including those of local poetry set to music. A very good writer he is too.
And finally, Joni came onstage for her other set. Playing rockier songs, she completed the rest of the tracks from her new EP and was equally at home on the piano or the violin. She finished off with “Faded Jeans”, a song that really stretches her violin playing to the limit. She used on-stage instant recording and playback to multi-layer her playing, creating a wall of sound that was of orchestral proportions. As soon as it was over, the crowd were instantly on their feet with appreciation and so she could not leave it there. She then played an encore of a rousing rhapsody that got everyone joining in, a Beatles cover (“Back in the USSR” rather than Montrose!) and then finishing off with “Fisherman’s Blues”, the first song she learnt to play on the violin. What a great end to a superb night.
The talent on stage that night was exceptionally. The Montrose Music Festival will go from strength to strength with that standard musicianship and vocalists behind it.
Viva MMF0 Comments 61 days
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Joni Fuller heads back to Montrose - Sat 5th Sep
Joni's coming back to Montrose on Sat 5th Sep.
Click link below for full details ...
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HOUSEOLOGY 101 feat. International star Dj/producer PROGRESSIVE THRUST!
Forfar is a small place but that doesnt mean it cant be rocked! ...
From Dubai to Spain, Egypt to Tokyo,Miami to Amsterdam HOUSEOLOGY 101 hits Forfar for the very first time, with International star DJ/producer PROGRESSIVE THRUST for a journey into house music that you will never forget!
Houseology 101 is an international brand night dedicated to house music with all its sub genres,house music stars and fans all over the world.
SATURDAY 17TH OF OCTOBER
THE ROYAL CLUB - FORFAR
ENTRY £ 5
DOOR OPEN 10 PM TILL LATE
Montrose Music Festival!
We're playing a gig in Dexters Bar , Castle street dundee this saturday. 10t october 3-6. Everyone come along and bring your dancing shoes!
we have a new track with our new vocalist Ben Timpson(ex my minds weapon) on our myspace go check it out or our bebo page
when do tickets go on sale for Ocean Colour Scene??
OCS @ the Town Hall....one word...
AMAZING
O,C,S ...............Surely I must be dreaming!!!!!!!!!
cheers montrose music festival it was great to get the invite and we all enjoyed it very much thanks soooooo much!! bring more gigs on with mics that work haha
http://retracttheaccolade.bigcartel.com/
buy the rock4life cd which features our track "winters heart"
has some great bands from around the world!
RTA
Live music at Abbot this weekend Bottleneckers Friday 8.30-11, Diva Sat 9.30-1, Sun 6-9 Heidrum.
Sat 29th August Springers Live 2009
Open air festival in Brechin live on stage from 12 noon
Emerald Sunday
F N 3 G s
Ghosts of Progress
Heidrum
The Goodnights
The Bs and Cs
Nosmo King
Sandy Tweedale
The Usuals
Beatnic Prestige
All Free fun for all the family, stalls,craft fair,bbq,coffees,boucy castle etc etc
Official Montrose Music Festival 09 Flickr Page up and running.......
http://www.flickr.com/photos/montros...
Some fest photos found so far ...
www.flickr.com/photos/42082478@N00/s...
http://www.pbase.com/ianpaterson/roc...
http://www.bebo.com/grozet4
More to come from some of the other official photographers soon ...
Heyy.
If anyone has any pictures/footage from the youth gig at the links hotel can we please have a copy. Thanks
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Superb wk/end again guys, well done Joycee for organising the weather. Excited about next year already
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Had a great time last weekend, roll on next year.
Anyone seen a set of drumsticks??
Last seen in the Kinch drummers hands at the high st on saturday
The Mo Fest Rocks - Simples![[moon]](http://s.bebo.com/img/smiley/eico_moon.gif)
We'll publish details of the official festival photos, and the official festival DVD
very soon, keep checking the website for details ...
Where can we see some of the official photos that were taken at all the venues.
I loved it, fantastic weekend, about the most fun you can have. xx
Thanks to all of you who helped out at the Festival over the wknd,the red shirt wearin folks
A huge thanks to all who supported us & came out to watch Nosmo's Kinetic Playground who will be returning as Nosmo King at a pub near you.
The towns Music Fest is one of the best i have ever been to...keep up the good work
massive praise to all the organisers - well done - much appreciated. Just what Montrose has been waiting for all year x
Roll on May 2010