7X9 Studio 1 22 BIG KIC Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Kilsyth Comedy Festival August 11-13 Colzium Big Top and the Coachman Hotel
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7X9 Studio 1 22 BIG KIC Wednesday, August 11, 2010 www.kilsythchronicle.co.uk Kilsyth Comedy Festival August 11-13 Colzium Big Top and The Coachman Hotel KICS have been working in Magners Glasgow International The Coachman Hotel will be Stevenson KICS Comedy event conjunction with the Scottish Comedy Festival, to create the leading venue for the Kilsyth Organizer said “we’re really very Comedy Agency, sister company Kilsyth Comedy Festival and to Comedy Festival, finishing with a excited, this is a new dimension to to The Stand Comedy Club and bring the very best in electrifying grand finale at The Big top in the festival that we would hope to the organisers behind the popular stand-up to Kilsyth this summer. Colzium Estate . Dorothy continue in future years” Wednesday, August 11 Thursday, August 12 Thursday, August 12 appearances, delivers his massively popular brand of caustic sarcasm and observational THE Kilsyth Comedy CALEDONIAN humour.We have him here on our own Festival kicks off on comedy doorstep in Wednesday 11th of August favourites Kilsyth! with an impressive VLADIMIR Appearing as our International Stand up! McTAVISH, Headline in THE show at 7.30pm at The SUSAN BIG TOP at Coachman Hotel. The line- MORRISON 7.30pm in up will include a number of AND GRAEME Colzium Estate, top comedians from around THOMAS head don’t miss this the globe who will be taking up the bill on opportunity to see time off from their hectic THE BEST OF this comic at his Fringe Festival schedule to bring their SCOTTISH night best LIVE! unique flavours of comedy to the people of at the Supporting Fred Kilsyth. Australians NICK SUN and RO FUN for all the family! KICS Kids Comedy Coachman Hotel is STU WHO? CAMPBELL will take to the mic along with Club is aimed at children aged 8-12 at 7.30pm . Wonderfully prolific Canadian born TONY LAW. years. See seasoned children’s Enjoy the unique and versatile, a Tickets £5 available at the Coachman or comedians comedy and sharp and original online at www.kic.me.uk GRAEME satire of some of funny-man. A THOMAS,VIV Scotland’s best regular in all of GEE and BILLY comedians. major UK comedy KIRKWOOD take venues, and lives to the mike at Tickets £5, available at The Coachman in Cumbernauld! 2.00pm at the Hotel or online at www.kic.me.uk Don’t miss this Coachman Hotel. chance to see him live in Kilsyth. Tickets £3 Adults go free but must Friday, August 13 Tickets £10 be accompanied available at the by children! THE much-loved comic FRED MACAULAY, Coachman Hotel Not suitable for famed for his BBC Radio Scotland show or online at under 5s and numerous TV and Edinburgh Fringe www.kic.me.uk 16x9 Wiltshire Farm BIG KIC 23 www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Teenage KICS Dance Fest Friday, August 13, 1-5pm Colzium Lennox Estate £3 (under 12s go free when accompanied by an adult) COLZIUM Lennox Estate is set to Flying Jalapenos Eletricat The Scottish Rockettes extensively performing with come alive with high kicks, b-boy international acts such as US stances, twirling, jumping and ELETRICAT Dance fuses Brazilian basketball legends The Harlem jiving with the Big Top playing host street dances and other Afro Latin Globetrotters. Having trained with to the TEENAGE KICS DANCE styles to deliver a contemporary, world class dancers from the NBA FEST. sensual and electric style with and NFL, the Rockettes ensure major power and energy behind it. they deliver a high impact True Carnival! performance packed full of passion and power. Teenage KICS Dance Competition DANCE troupes from around Scotland compete for the Elsewhere on site…. chance to win major prizes and FEATURING B-boys and B-girls OTHER activities across the site walk away with the inaugural from Scotland, Holland, Germany, THE UK’s hottest dance team! The include an adventure playground, Best Dance Troupe trophy. Poland, Canada and Phillipines; Rockettes provide high-energy waterfall walks, football, zorbing Expect everything from street The Flying Jalapenos crew will sports entertainment for all types of etc., as well as a craft fair, food dance to salsa and ballet to wow the crowd with their popping, pro sports events from the UEFA stalls and funfair, making it very break-dancing in this open rocking, locking and gravity-defying Champions League to the Grand much a fun day out for the whole genre competition. breakdance manoeuvres. National and have toured family. Clan KICS Saturday, August 14, noon-6pm Colzium Lennox Estate £3 (under 12s go free when accompanied by an adult) SATURDAY is dedicated to Scottish THE Clanranald Adventure will inaugural Craigenroan Ceilidh get bums off seats and onto the Tinuviel Shaw – Special roots and culture at The Colzium transform Colzium Lennox Estate Band Competition, where bands dance floor. With £500 up for Effect Make-up Workshops with Celtic music, ceilidh into a magical landscape of will be judged on not only their grabs, expect some serious dance competitions and the creation of a encampments, armouries, forest musical talents, but their ability to offs. SPECIAL effects artist Tinuviel unique interactive historical trail kitchens and battlefield Shaw will reveal the secrets through the woods of the estate. hospitals. Hosted by the behind some of the gory make- Clanranald Trust, the historical up used in filmmaking. Tiuviel trail will come alive with Roman will have you creating fake Clanranald warriors, medieval lords, bruises, cuts and maybe even strapping blacksmiths and some chopped fingers. Come master archers ready to take you along and have a go at creating on a step back in time with lots your very own horror special of costumes, props and fun effects. activities to get involved with. Elsewhere on site.... Craigneroan Ceilidh FUNFAIR, craft market, food Competition and drink, adventure THE hardest working musicians in playground, Hog Roast, Celtic Scotland battle it out in the Firedancers. Salsa Celtica with support from Norrie MacIver/Ruari Sutherland Saturday, August 14, 7.30pm :: Colzium Big Top £12 Salsa Celtica SALSA Celtica's fusion Norrie MacIver/Ruari of Scottish, Irish and Sutherland Latin American musical Fronted by the winner of Young styles delivers an Traditional Musician of the Year, the exhilarating combination Norrie MacIver (pictured right) will set of virtuosity, energy and the perfect tone for an evening of infectious grooves that Celtic-inspired music. Norrie will be has made them one of joined by Ruari Sutherland, an the most exciting groups Edinburgh based beat-boxer. Puirt-a- on the Celtic, World Beul (Gaelic mouth music) is Music and Salsa circuits seamlessly merged with beat-box in a today. novel and surprising way. 26 BIG KIC Wednesday, August 11, 2010 www.kilsythchronicle.co.uk Kilsyth International Carnival Sunday, August 15, noon-6pm Colzium Lennox Estate £3 (under 12s go free) HEADLINED by Scotland’s celebrates variety and diversity Expect non-stop music and circus workshops, crazy foremost folk/roots troubadour, with a packed programme of dance across several indoor costumes, licensed bar and a Dougie Maclean, the 7th Kilsyth acts covering every genre from and outdoor stages plus funfair, choice of catering to suit all International Carnival rap to jazz and salsa to ska. craft market, grand parade, tastes. Dougie MacLean Dean Queasy A GLASGOW-BASED band who describe themselves as a mixture of Garage, Blues and escapism! Stewart Horn Band STEWART Horn has been a fixture in the Glasgow music scene for twenty years, playing guitar in almost every type of ensemble imaginable. Here he has assembled a quartet of outstanding improvisers and has promised a set “from the funky and danceable end of the jazz spectrum”. Tepooka KNOWN the world over for his unique blend of lyrical, 'roots based' songwriting, Dougie MacLean’s songs have been covered by a whole host of artists from Paulo Nutini to Frankie Miller and have gained him an international reputation as songwriter, Starchild and Breakdancers Macumba composer and extraordinary performer. STARCHILD are a group of three rappers Listen out for Homecoming Scotland theme and a DJ, the performers are Sami Omar ‘Caledonia’. aka Shaty, Fahad Said aka Ghost, Mickey Ferrari and Proud. Beat That Samba Band MISCHIEF makers Tepooka will be showing Cheri Treiffel you how to runaway with the circus with a series of free circus workshops throughout the day and performances for the whole family to enjoy. SCOTLAND meets Brazil with this unique blending of Scottish bagpipes with the infectious rhythms of Brazilian percussion. Raintown Katet A LOCAL Kilsyth band delight the crowds again at the Colzium. Elsewhere on site.... FABULOUSLY outrageous Cheri Treiffel FUNFAIR, craft market, Japanese tea pops into Colzium for the day to cast her ceremony, adventure playground, discerning eye over proceedings and snowboarding simulator, parade, Taiko bestow her words of wisdom upon the drumming, Celtic Firedancers crowds. A 23-strong all female samba band from Stirling that is the longest-running female samba band in Scotland and the nation’s first all-women drumming group. Esperanza FAMED for their high-tempo, energy- draining sets, Scotland’s hardest working Ska band has played alongside some of the THIS pop-country duo blend the intimate greats of UK two-tone, Jamaican and US conversational writing style of American ska, including Bad Manners, Neville Staple, Country music with infectious Pop melodies The Beat, Skaville UK, The Heptones, Toots in a style that takes influences from Pink, and the Maytals, Pauline Black, Bombskare Brad Paisley, Christina Aguilera, Gary and The Toasters. Barlow, Sugarland and Keith Urban. BIG KIC 27 www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Raintown to perform for ‘home audience’ LOCAL band forthcoming album, as which included several are also planning a second Raintown are set to well as our single and a radio interviews and press trip to Nashville, the home entertain the crowds few covers,” said Claire.