Moray group MacTa speak after successful MacMoray Festival set
Moray band MacTa were one of several local groups to play at MacMoray Festival in Elgin at the weekend. Three of the band members spoke to The Northern Scot after their successful second stage set.
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00:00 So I'm Angus, I'm the keyboard player and I sort of deal with the band bookings and all that sort of stuff as well.
00:06 I'm Callum, I'm the lead singer.
00:08 I'm Mark, I'm the bassist.
00:10 It's been great, yeah, what a buzz from the second stage. It was just, yeah, it was amazing.
00:21 The crowd seemed to be really enjoying it and it was great to see everyone singing along.
00:26 The event in general has been great. It's a great thing for Elgin, it's a great thing for Moray and wider afield.
00:33 We've seen people from all over coming in, so it's been great, it's been really good.
00:37 Yeah, excellent set up and a good range of bands as well.
00:41 Plus it's good to see the local bands getting a chance amongst these other international artists.
00:47 Well I think we find ourselves in a bit of a weird predicament because we're a local band but we don't write our own music.
00:53 So we obviously do covers, we do weddings, functions and that sort of stuff.
00:57 For us it just gives us a chance to do something a wee bit different, a bit more, let our hair down, a bit more fun.
01:04 Yeah, and showcase ourselves in the best light as well.
01:07 Yeah, it's a different environment to our normal, just the massive size of the audience.
01:14 It's just a very different experience to play in front of a crowd that size compared to what we're usually doing.
01:20 So it's a great opportunity that we've had.
01:22 It's nice also getting to, someone's doing the sounds, someone's doing the lights.
01:25 Whereas normally if we're playing a wedding or something we're doing that all ourselves.
01:29 You bump into folk in the community, like if I'm at the post office or something, they'll be like,
01:34 "Oh, you were in Macda, you were at the Udemyc Murray" and it's great to get that recognition as well.
01:38 You have a lot of friends and family in the crowd watching you.
01:41 Yeah, quite a lot today.
01:44 And folk outside. My dad texted me, he was outside the perimeter, he said a great set.
01:50 So, could obviously be heard across Eldon.
01:53 It's really nice to get the experience to play on a big stage as well.
01:56 Like, something I never really thought I would do when I was younger.
02:00 And like for us, we quite often have to pay to go to wedding fairs or whatever.
02:05 So it's a great opportunity for us to perform for free for something like this.
02:09 And it actually allows us to play stuff we don't maybe play other gigs that we're doing.
02:15 Because we've got to do it for a specific audience, the bigger audience.
02:19 So we choose the songs which are going to hopefully go down as good as possible.
02:24 And that's again a different kind of side of what we do.
02:28 And for us getting to chat to international artists from all over the world as well backstage,
02:33 it's like a professional learning thing for us as well. It's great.
02:37 Networking.
02:38 Networking, yeah.
02:39 Are you going to come back in 2025?
02:43 Absolutely, yeah.
02:44 We'll be back if we're invited for sure.