MacMoray organiser Andy Macdonald (centre) and MC DJ Jammie speak to Northern Scot reporter Jonny Clark during Saturday of MacMoray Festival. They discuss plans to sort out an issue regarding DJ Sammy's late arrival for the event, among other things.
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00:00 Alright Andy, Jamie. Hi. Hi Johnny. First of all guys, do you feel as good as you look? I look really good, Jamie.
00:07 What about you? I look good but I'm rough.
00:10 We're sharing a mic by the way. Yeah, I'm exhausted but all good, innit? How's the day been so far?
00:17 We're currently just coming up to six o'clock. We're about four or five bands in. Everyone's having a great time.
00:21 You guys having a great time. Tell us about the day. No, I'm having a terrible time because
00:26 DJ Sammy's flight got cancelled and I'm absolutely petrified, aren't we Jamie? We are.
00:30 So nobody knows this yet and it's about to go on stage by Jamie that his flight got cancelled.
00:36 But we've had to swap a few things around.
00:38 So we've got Drew Dixon jumping on main stage and then DJ Sammy booked a new flight.
00:43 So he's gonna go on later on.
00:44 So Jamie's about to break the news on stage because he's the main host.
00:48 The main man, the MC Jamie and he's gonna break the news in about 20 minutes and there's gonna be a riot.
00:55 Yeah, so the news is gonna break that DJ Sammy is coming later on today.
01:00 But the good old Drew Dixon all the way from Nashville is taking the main stage
01:05 instead of the second stage and then I had a genius idea.
01:09 Instead of putting DJ Sammy on the
01:13 second stage, he's gonna close
01:16 Saturday night on the main stage people. That's what we do at McMurray. You know, we're here to please people.
01:22 We're here to, you know, please the Karen's, please the public.
01:25 And what we like to do is make things happen like magic happen. That's what we do for McMurray.
01:29 So between me and Jamie, this is what we do.
01:32 So the fact that we'll be able to end the whole night at 11 p.m. on the main stage, I think it's quite phenomenal.
01:37 Jamie, do you agree? With the DJ as well. With the DJ as well. You don't get better than that. Johnny, what do you think?
01:43 I mean, it sounds like you've got one problem and five solutions guys. I think you've solved that pretty well there.
01:48 I mean the crowd's gonna love that, aren't they?
01:50 We've got that many solutions to so minimal problems that we could really, like we need more problems.
01:57 What do you think, Jamie? There's not enough problems. There's a little bit of an issue at the bar again.
02:02 We'll be fixed. Something about the coach. Jamie, you knew it because I went to you. He's not just an MC by the way.
02:07 He's my main man.
02:08 The batteries on the card machines were dying. They are now fixed. They are now fixed.
02:13 We didn't know it was the batteries were dying. We thought it was everything but the batteries. Something so simple can cause such a
02:19 detrimental effect, but I think we've sorted it, Johnny.
02:22 Over to you. I mean you guys are obviously best friends. Anyone that's seen this can tell that. Andy, this is still very much...
02:31 Okay, Easter's not in the name.
02:33 It's still the family festival and you've still got your best pals and lots of family and stuff here as well.
02:38 It is a family... It's a family festival. Family run, in a sense.
02:43 What family runs it, Jamie?
02:46 The McDonald's.
02:48 I'm the only McDonald's, Jamie.
02:50 Well, you know...
02:54 It is family run.
02:55 Yeah, we kind of wing it, don't we?
02:57 I've had that many complaints about, you know, like not having WKD, not having the 0% Peroni.
03:02 So I got it all in. I think... Do you know what I forgot, Johnny?
03:05 Go on.
03:06 The bottle openers. The bottle openers! But we got that sorted. In fact, no I didn't. They're still in my pocket.
03:15 I need to put them on the main bar quickly, Johnny.
03:18 In fact, Jamie, I'll give it to you because you're not just the host.
03:21 He's not just my best friend. He's the guy that makes magic happen.
03:24 Jamie, they're to go on the main bar.
03:26 I'm really tired. I have not slept a wink in about two days trying to get this festival built.
03:31 You said this to me before as well, Andy, that every year you wanted to make it bigger and better.
03:36 You told me this year was going to be last year on steroids. Are you seeing that so far?
03:40 Yeah, well, you'll notice this year we've got fun fairs, we've got chaos.
03:43 It's bigger and it's better when we keep to the capacity.
03:46 And summer. Big steroid week.
03:49 Yeah, big show. This is quite exciting, isn't it?
03:51 So we've got a bit of a problem with DJ Sammy coming later and everyone's expecting him.
03:57 But what we're also doing in this time, and you're going to announce it as well,
04:00 we've got a promotional video to announce one of the new artists that is coming to make Murray's Summer.
04:05 So we're really excited for that. So we're hoping that's going to, hopefully, fingers crossed,
04:10 make things a little bit better as well. But again, you've got DJ Sammy ending Saturday night on the main stage.
04:19 So I've nothing to complain about.
04:21 There's literally nothing to complain about here, Andy. Absolutely nothing.
04:24 The only thing that remains to ask is, Jami, where did you get the sunglasses?
04:31 Where? They are Sun Gods McLaren F1s.
04:35 Lovely. There you go, guys. McLaren F1 sunglasses. Perfect.