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You can email us on info [ ] flaresnseagulls. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address:. I'm in! Flares n Seagulls. Skip to content. Wickerman Festival Interview Still Burning managed to meet up with Wickerman Festival founder Sid Ambrose to find out more about this annual event that seems to get nothing but praise from people who have attended in the past. What is it like for you in the days that lead up to when the gates open?
When does planning for the next year actually begin? Any mistakes in earlier shows that you can laugh at or wince at even now? And the most up to date line up so far this year is? Is it too late for an act to get a place in the line up? If not how do they apply? Happy Bus and Liftshare, what are they all about? The Scooter Tent, what sort of numbers can you get in there?
The scooter tent has a capacity of 1, but beware of eye injuries from those spiked Mohicans. And your favourites over the years, both crowdwise and your own personal faves? Fun, fire, frolics and a famously friendly fraternity of folk. Your five desert island tracks? Rate this:. Share this: Click to share on Twitter Opens in new window Click to share on Facebook Opens in new window Click to email this to a friend Opens in new window.
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Please consider updating or switching. A foot high Wickerman effigy - similar to that in which Edward Woodward's policeman character was burned as a human sacrifice in the movie - would be set alight at the festival's close. A local minister condemned the event's pagan undertones and grabbed newspaper headlines.
But it passed off successfully with Irish punk rockers Stiff Little Fingers headlining the fledgling, homespun, event staged in front of a couple of thousand spectators. I didn't experience Wickerman's delights until I was hooked.
In the early years, the audience was a mixture of local folk amazed and delighted that this was happening on their doorstep and visiting festival veterans who at that time were very much of punk and hippy persuasion and who found Wickerman's edgy, eighties, retro vibe very much to their liking. For a number of years Mrs J and I chose to be day visitors, travelling home to a comfy bed on the Friday night and returning to the festival on the Saturday afternoon.
Rose is a truly ancient caravan s vintage which we picked up for a few quid on Ebay and kitted out with the sole intention of using it once a year, and once a year only.
So, for five or six festivals up to , Rose was duly washed down, scrubbed up and trundled the 30 miles from Dumfries to Dundrennan for us to sample the full Wickerman experience without resorting to a tent. Unfortunately, I didn't always have a car with a tow-bar and a couple of times had to borrow my son's which is black and covered from bonnet to back bumper in dramatic Iron Maiden decals. It was quite a sight: a metal-head's car towing a barely roadworthy caravan whose prime had been in the days of glam rock.
Two years ago our rig did provide great amusement to the police at the gate. Seeing us approach they readied themselves in anticipation of a potential drugs bust, only to wave us through with a laugh after seeing the two mortified fifty-somethings in the front seats. Wickerman changed over the years. It became bigger and more commercial. Some said it lost a bit of its edge.
The audience became less alternative and more mainstream. But it attracted some great names to the Summerisle Stage. There were also some great moments in the Scooter Tent which kept alive Wickerman's punk and ska roots. The Undertones and Bad Manners spring to mind.
I lost count of the times over the years I would survey the site and the main stage acts and think how surreal it was that these musical superstars had come to perform in the corner of a farmer's field overlooking Dundrennan and the Solway Firth.
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