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For any of you still following this blog, holding out for tidbits of information and not either onto the Facebook page or any of our other hirterto untried promotional channels.Here is the Insider 2010 websiteYou will notice that we are running a new blog in that so this will be the last transmission under the insiderweekend banner.See you there.

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-76852935740320757042010-02-01T10:15:00.000-08:002010-02-01T10:40:10.054-08:00

A decision has been taken by the board of Backwoods Productions - the Insider 2010 is on. The big brains at Inshriach House, Ord Ban Restaurant and the Old Bridge Inn are whirring away to put together something really special, and this time we have 6 months to play with. 18th to 20th June, £70 weekend ticket, including camping. Capacity 600.Line up TBC. Tickets will be on sale within the week.

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-9762042621258211642009-10-30T02:50:00.000-07:002009-10-30T02:52:41.822-07:00

How about we do it all again.....18th - 20th June 2010.Watch this space.

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Heres another one, Mitchell Museum, that just turned up on Youtube.

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Thanks to Tom, Shan and Conrad, and to Bombskare.

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Here is a short film of the Insider made by Adrianna Requina and Lars. We think it's rather beautiful.

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Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-86022535200372166962009-07-05T12:59:00.001-07:002009-07-06T11:26:39.034-07:00

For the rest of them have a look at the Insider Flickr page, feel free to add any more to that or to the Friends of Inshriach facebook Group or email them to me, we are going to try to make a film about it so if any of you have good clips we could use we would be very grateful.

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It has taken a week to get my head round what just happened and to scribble anything at all about the Insider. Something extraordinary just happened that is pure testimony to the people who saw the potential and put a shoulder behind us. I still wake up in the morning wondering which musicians are going to strike up next.Highlights, for me. Paul from Red kite yurts sorting out that brilliant

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Friday  Banana SessionsJohn Langan Woodenbox Heads on Sticks Mitchell Museum Findo Gask  Saturday  Sorren Mclean Reaz Over the Wall Robin Lewis Adams Black Hand Gang Storm of '83 Ross ClarkWashington IrvingBombskare  SundayMike & Solveig Will Cookson Rags & Feathers  Claes Cem The Injuns present Dead Man's

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What just happened? For the last week there have been amazing people about and now everything you could want is built, brilliant menus are up, the stage and PA are in, the trees are lit, there are yurts up and most surprisingly, this is how the bar turned out. Thank you so much to everybody involved in this.Very late notice here but we have just announced that Sunday will have a theme. Tweed and

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It's been a scorcher today and the weather forecast for the weekend is for more of the same, we only had to sacrifice one chef to the gods of the weather to be putting the whisky barrels out to this sunset.

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By the time we got back from Balvenie this enormous and very beautiful marquee was taking up the whole lawn.Thanks to Moray Firth Radio for plugging us all day after we gave a slightly hung over interview first thing this morning. The Banana Sessions played a pre Insider gig in Cafe Mambos last night and are now staying at Inshriach to help us out in the run up.Four days and counting.

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Balvenie distillery have kindly donated 20 lovely oak whisky barrels to use as fire butts. They had some spares.

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With the help of everybody we could find the DJ booth has made its journey to the woods.

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Today we are building this medieval looking enclosure for the food, connecting up water to the fields and working out how to move the stage and DJ booth into the woods.The weather forecast is looking good for the weekend.

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Talk about pulling together. Henry Ryder has pulled out some serious after hours stops on the website and artwork, Captain Bob and Miranda have come up for a fortnight to build and paint things, Ronnie Dunn lent us the ingredients for an outdoor kitchen, The Mountain Cafe in Aviemore lent us barbeques and tables, Jack and Hammie rocked up to help put up the bar, Zander at 123send has provided

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-15862597591056081732009-06-17T02:37:00.000-07:002009-06-18T10:09:17.205-07:00

The Ord Ban food bar is this medieval looking stockade by the lawn. The wind got up last night and the marquee that went over it is no longer quite as designed. Anyone round Aviemore got a 30 x 10 ft tent we can use?The morning's Strathy runs with this piece all about us and we expect something up on STV very shortly.

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We are building a catering area extraordinaire, spit roasts, barbeques with local beef and venison, trout, scallops, curry, stews and cakes. That's what happens when you organise a festival with a lot foodies.

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A small donation to the Alvie Estate benevolent fund and we have what looks like a pile of firewood but which, through the magic of carpentry and glue, is going to become the catering area.

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It's been a busy weekend, the upshot of which is that building standards now need to have a look at this, the main component of the Tall, Small and Bakewell arena featuring Heads on Sticks. It's all made from donated and salvaged materials. Once everyone gets back from Rockness and hoses off the lager and mud we need to build the catering area so it's off on the scrounge for more materials. We

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-73052574376508436012009-06-11T16:44:00.000-07:002009-06-12T03:48:22.739-07:00

Insider Weekend 26th-29th June from Ali Macca on Vimeo.Produced by Ali McWalter and starring Merv Adams, we give you the official Insider video.Also big thanks to Henry for the amazing posters you are about to see round Aviemore.

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We re very excited to announce that Lau are going to headline the Insider on Sunday night. That gives us a line up something along the lines of the John Langan band followed by Charlie McKerron and Friends, chased down by Lau then DJs in the woods. Outstanding.

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-41359143507447303402009-06-10T05:48:00.000-07:002009-06-10T06:12:08.728-07:00

Word is in from Copenhagen that the brilliant and beautiful Claes Cem has booked his flight. Claes toured with the Injuns last October and played the Ord Ban first birthday party, we are very excited to have all of them back.It's been a race these last few weeks and we would like to say a big thank you to some of the people who have moved so fast to get behind us. Moray Firth Live have broken the

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-72658000564147721172009-06-10T04:32:00.000-07:002009-06-10T05:00:01.162-07:00

Glen from Moray Security is here to make sure everyone behaves and they don't light fires where they aren't meant to. Glen is bigger than anyone we have ever met and we are extremely glad to have him on our side.Glen wont let you in if your name's not down.

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Just been reminded. The Insider is the weekend of the summer solstice so round here it's not going to get very dark. This photo was taken on Inshriach same time last year at 2am.In keeping with the pagan associations of the date we are arranging an unusual wicker surprise.

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Had to dig a trench or two yesterday to lay water pipes and now we could grow tomatoes in our wellies.We are about to hit Aviemore and Inverness with the most last minute flyering campaign ever seen. Only selling 400 tickets should mean we don't need to try very hard.If anyone heard me being interviewed on the radio yesterday I hope I gave them a good laugh and Polly was interviewed by the

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-28510984266514916262009-06-07T11:46:00.001-07:002009-06-18T10:13:43.223-07:00

Or at least, it's a sign factory. It's a condition of our license that we have a lot of signs.Inshriach had this review in yesterday's Guardian and there's more unexpectedly good publicity coming up. There are only 400 tickets to the Insider and strictly no entrance without one on the day so we are encouraging our friends and those of you who have been following us from the start to get them in

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-16581932983450494672009-06-04T09:32:00.000-07:002009-06-09T16:51:58.990-07:00

With 3 weeks to go we are starting to tick stuff off. The main tent has grown to accommodate the numbers, a probably OTT PA system has been specified, security and medics are close to sorted, lighting for the trees has been chosen (which, being the weekend of the summer solstice, will look amazing for at least 2 hours) and the finer points of a wine and whisky list are being polished.We will also

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-63355203306108564662009-06-02T15:47:00.000-07:002009-06-09T16:35:27.171-07:00

For the early reward and amusement of those of you who have been reading this blog, the wires have been touched and the Insider is alive. You may even have noticed the addition of a buy it now button just to the right. Henry and Dan are responsible for the Inshriach House website and they have been beavering away behind the scenes since the Outsider was cancelled. Mostly for fun and partly for

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Last nights best idea was the Inconvenience Store. For all your Festival needs; from sunscreen to bug spray, pork scratchings to corkscrews, widely stocked but seldom open. Then we moved the horses from the camping field, moved Ord Ban's spit roasting arrangement, made the tent bigger, and started an epic to-do list.We really, honestly, are about to release tickets, maybe even tonight...

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-5196918327294685742009-06-01T05:19:00.000-07:002009-06-01T12:28:11.591-07:00

Another meeting with the licensing board and, bar some spit and polish about the website, Insider tickets are ready to be released. We have worked out where the tent goes (this picture), moved the horses and started making lots of signs, road signs, camping signs and most importantly, given that it's dry and we are in the woods, fire risk signs. Charlie McKerron and friends are now booked for the

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-41005811453168052092009-05-29T10:27:00.000-07:002009-05-30T06:51:55.677-07:00

In making a festival in 6 weeks what do you need? You need a license, nearly there, you need food and drink, in the extremely tasty and capable hands of Ord Ban, lots of bands is a given, a website, sorted thanks to Henry and Dan, promotional material, well no, not really, some merchandise, and a jingle. Thanks to Merv Adams, and at the cost of his symbols now in the loch, we have an exceptional

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-57492636924496458182009-05-28T04:23:00.000-07:002009-05-28T14:08:56.736-07:00

We are going to have a mongolian orchard of Yurts, if such a thing exists. They come with carpets and groundsheets and are tucked away near the house. In keeping with our absurdly reasonable pricing policy they cost this much...A super cute 8" yurt, can sleep up to 4 but sounds perfect for a couple - £225A 12 footer, sleeps up to 6 , £300A 14 foot, sleeping 6 or 7, £350A 16 foot, sleeps up to 8,

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-22522479552624901212009-05-28T02:30:00.000-07:002009-05-28T02:36:41.331-07:00

The brilliant, beautiful and talented Banana Sessions came to Aviemore on Sunday for what turned into a pre Insider knees up. They stayed at Inshriach, ostensibly to sit up late drinking and jamming but we tricked them into looking over our plans, checking out the stage and the woods and some local beer and they are resolutely ON BOARD.Now we have two days to sort out stewards, medics, drinking

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-40349833020259475412009-05-27T12:34:00.001-07:002009-05-27T13:54:48.721-07:00

Thanks to the Highland Licensing authorities and emergency services for their speedy moves. They have been extremely helpful in getting us through a complicated licensing process in not many weeks.We are nearly there, I think our last meeting means we can get on with the planning and building and the website, which ought to be with us this week.Watch this space.

Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09337122827298895898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281412115381892337.post-68417447934946912822009-05-26T07:27:00.000-07:002009-06-09T16:34:28.603-07:00

Ross, Polly, Gordy and myself were going to run the bars and a stage at the Outsider. Seeing as we have already built the bar and a stage, struck deals with brewers and distilleries, been fishing around the musical scene and invited lots of friends we are holding a party at Inshriach. We have somehow got our hands on an incredibly talented line up, featuring, at the moment and in no particular

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