Ok everyone, all the key people put their heads together a while ago, and due to many other commitments and other reasons, we’ve decided that there will be no Jigs n Rigs in 2012. A lot of people know, but i don’t think it’s been actually said anywhere yet, so here it is.

We think the break will do it good, and we look forward to doing more in the coming years with renewed vigour and new ideas and people on board. Many of the key Jigs n Rigs people have involvement in loads of the other festivals happening all over this island (Ireland, not Rathlin) in the summers, there’s loads to do, so have a great year y’all.

See ye next year (probably) for more fun!

Just a quickie post here, to say a massive thanks to everyone who made jigs n rigs 2011 so much fun!

everyone who played, cooked, cleaned, danced, pole danced, drove, shouted, smiled, laughed… everyone who did anything. legends you all.

especially our awesome hosts, the mega Force 10 Crew. The work they do, obvious and inobvious, to make this possible is staggering.

All the people on Rathlin island.. we thank you so much for letting us into your wonderful world every year. it’s a strikingly beautiful place, and we’re so lucky that they share it with us all as they do.

the entire McFaul family, they have us on their land, in their homes, on their boats, in their cars…. mega-legends you all…
the list goes on and on… just.. thanks all. thanks so much. you make our year.

steve

Jigs & Rigs is happening the same weekend as The Armoy Road Races. The straightest Route to Ballycastle is through Armoy. Armoy and some of the roads around it will be closed:
Friday Practise Roads Closed from 2.30pm Reopen NO Later Than 9.30pm
Saturday Races Roads Closed from 10.00am Reopen NO Later Than 6.30pm
If you are travelling to the festival during these times then you will need to avoid the closed roads. More info on road closers etc is here: http://www.amrrc.com/circuit-map.aspx

It is possible to get to Armoy and then go left into the town although it will be very busy. Take the B147 Carrowreagh Road out of Armoy and follow it to its end, a T Junction. Take a right and immediate right again, don’t cross the bridge. Come down the slip road and Right again straight into Ballycastle. Ballycastle is signposted along most of this route.

Or

Avoid Armoy all together. Don’t turn off the Frossets Road for Ballycastle. Keep going to Ballymoney. Stay on the bypass, do not go into Ballymoney. Then go straight through the roundabout and take the next right, sign posted to Stranocum. Go straight through Stranocum and keep going until your reach the Dry Arch bridge. Take the right hand slip road before the bridge (do not take the right turn 20m before that sign posted for Armoy) and another right and follow signs for Ballycastle.

Image showing alt routes to follow.

We’re delighted to have so many amazing artists playing on our stage this year, check out the line up:

Friday 29/07

Audio Terrorists DJs
Darragh Thomas
Chris Chapman
Zyme
Jay Galligan
Richie !K
Kodeine
Herv
Tina Moore

Saturday 30/07

Ilex
Dr. Groove
Automatic Tasty
2BiT
Meljoann
A-force feat. Lady Grew
Morphamish
Paul Acroplane
Welfare
Lakker
Nedule

Sunday 31/07

Ebauche
BlueFood
HaloDarkly
Niamh DeBarra
Morphamish b2b Tactus
Lion of the Ghetto
Johny Alpha
Alan Coholan
Antrophe
Ronan Dunne
Melody Masher b2b Spewey Walshe

Ok, it’s coming up fast. Final bits of prep are underway, we’ll have the line-up ready to “anounce” for our tent any minute now. Some quick notes for those of ye who are coming to the festival…

Expect harsh weather. If you came up for the first time last year, basically, you don’t know shit about weather. We’ve never had it so easy. Bring a good tent, extra pegs, extra strings / guy ropes, be prepared to improvise. Bring good waterproofs, spare socks, decent boots or whatever. Bring a torch. Bring food and drink, don’t bring excessive packaging for it…

PLEASE take away what rubbish you bring. Try not to bring stuff that is overly wasteful. Here are some photos of what we were left with last year…

and in 2007, we had 2 of these silage trailers full to deal with…

The people that come to this festival are a strikingly nice crowd, and generally very good at keeping the field pretty tidy among themselves, if we could reduce the volume of crap that we are left to deal with afterwards, that would be fantastic.

Thanks so much to everyone who’s organised and attended all the fundraising events, they’ve been mindblowing. People are so motivated to help us doing this party it’s just great.

Some quick notes on this years’ festival…

Tickets. As usual, we have to limit the numbers of attendees, so a ticket will be required to gain entry to the site. This year, tickets are for sale, and can be bought for £30. There are still some left available. This advance money will really help us with the logistics of running this event, and we intend to work on some more permanent infrastructure for the field. Tickets can be bought here (via the event hosts, Force 10 crew). Also please note that any funds generated that we don’t use will be donated to the Shell to Sea campaign.

Volunteers. We’re down a few key crew members this year, so volunteers are more needed than ever. If you’re interested in going up a little early to help with the site setup (preparing the field, setting up fencing, laying plumbing, digging drainage ditches, all sorts of mucky physical fun like that) and have particular skills that may be relevent (tractor / JCB ticket / experience), mail Jonny with info and contact details.

Stewards. Throughout the event, we’ll need scheduled volunteers to help us with stewarding. It’s generally not hard work, sociable and fun. Have a read of the stewards guide, and if you think you could do a bit of that over the weekend, then make yourself known as you arrive, and if you sign up for a shift, please remember to be sober and well rested for it. You guys make the weekend work!

Line up. We’re in the process of finalising the line-up for our tent at the moment… if we’ve mailed you about playing, PLEASE reply to us ASAP. We really need to know all our artists’ availability so we can slot it all together in a way that works for us all, and we have other people basically on hold as we wait for the last few to confirm… so please, if we’ve already been in touch, answer us ASAP. If we haven’t been in touch, then basically we’re sorry… there’s an overwhelming amount of talent who’d like to play for us, but there’s only so many hours in the weekend, so we pretty much have no more room for others. But yeah, artists…. ANSWER YOUR EMAILS! (thanks!)

So we’ll post more up in the next while, hopefully will have a proper line up finalised, we’re really looking forward to seeing you all again, take her handy whatever yer at, bring it all on!

Steve

People keep organising gigs for this, it’s great!

Jay Galligan (Test)
Lakker (!Kaboogie, Invisible Agent & much more)
Oisin Murphy
Brian McCoy
Sam Kay (Loudmouth)

Saturday 16th July

United Arts Club
3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street
Dublin 2

22.00 – late
€5 in before 11 and €8 after

Another fundraiser for the Rathlin Jigs & Rigs festival is coming up this weekend. It’ll be a night of quality music and craic, so come along for a bit of dancing and shite talking.

• Location: Ruta (previously O’byrnes – corner of Capel St. & North
  King St.) Dublin
• Date: 8th July
• Time: 9:00pm
• Damage: 5 yo yos

Live:

Sunken Foal – (Planet Mu)

Twoc – (Alphabet Set)

Cignol – (Alphabet Set)

Herv – (Cock Rock Disco)

Djs:

Tango (Formation)

Ricky Force (Dsci4)

A-Force – (!Kaboogie)

Richie !K (!Kaboogie)

See yiz there!

We have a fundraising table quiz being organised for us to help  fund our end of the shenanagans for this years Jigs & Rigs festival.

• Location: Against the Grain, Camden Street, Dublin
• Date: 30th June
• Time: 7:30pm
• Damage: 10 yo yos per person

Raffles and fabulous prizes to be won apprantly, so come along, dig deep and have a laugh. There’s a Facebook for those of you who do that, no idea what it says but I’m sure it’s awesome.

We have another two fundraisers coming up, we’ll have details here closer to the time.

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again where we begin to start gearing up for our annual outing, and our hosts and friends and partners in shenanigans Force 10 are getting things moving with a fundraising night, on the beautiful North Coast…

I promise, more updates on stuff soon, and a website clean-up is long overdue… any day now.. any day now…

Steve