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12 11, 2013

Gleneagles Experience; the best in Scottish entertainment and hospitality

By Ross MacFarlane|November 12th, 2013|events|0 Comments

On the 10th November Reel Time Events travelled to Gleneagles to perform Gleneagles entertainment during The Gleneagles Experience. With the upcoming Ryder Cup in 2014 Gleneagles displayed the best Scotland has to offer; luxury food, drink and the best Scottish entertainment was presented to guests. The Experience allowed invited guests the chance to taste, drink and hear Gleneagles by providing a warm Scottish welcome. Reel Time was invited to provide the best of Scotland’s entertainment for the event; the guests were captivated by the finest food and drink before being wowed by the sounds of Scotland. [...]

12 11, 2013

Event Cocktail production for Actuary Conference

By Ross MacFarlane|November 12th, 2013|bars|0 Comments

Event Cocktail Production: Reel Time Bars set up another fantastic pop-up bar at yesterday’s Actuarial Conference at the EICC (Edinburgh International Conference Centre). Located in the heart of Edinburgh the EICC is an ideal location for a conference and its futuristic hydraulic moving floors allow the venue to be transformed. Reel Time Bars provided over 1000 cocktails for this conference serving 500 delegates. Well accustomed to large events Reel Time were able to quench the thirst of every attendee efficiently; Mark and his 10 members of staff were on hand to make sure every actuary enjoyed a [...]

29 10, 2013

Popping Up to Waitrose. Mobile bar for launch event

By Ross MacFarlane|October 29th, 2013|bars|0 Comments

Reel Time Bars attended a new store opening of Waitrose last week. Mark and his team were on hand to set up and run one of Reel Time’s Pop Up Bars. After a quick setup Mark was ready to serve new visitors, staff and managers at the store refreshing drinks from the unique and stylish Pop Up Bar; with a white façade backlit by a range of colourful lights the bar neatly fitted Waitrose’s white concept store image. Situated at the entrance to the Clyde, the new store is the 300th Waitrose store [...]

29 10, 2013

Reel-Time Zone Difference – Roddy the Piper and Visit Scotland at IMEX

By Ross MacFarlane|October 29th, 2013|conferences|0 Comments

Roddy left the sunny shores of Scotland for the bright lights of Las Vegas last week. Travelling with Visit Scotland to the IMEX American Convention Roddy helped share Scotland’s culture and tradition with the USA. IMEX is the largest conference for the MICE industry (meetings, incentives, conferences and events) representing 148 countries and 2,400 hosted buyers. Visit Scotland travelled to Las Vegas to showcase Scotland’s tourism industry; it was a great opportunity to display Scotland’s potential to representatives from around the world. Demonstrating Scotland’s cultural heritage Roddy led a Whisky Tasting session as [...]

29 10, 2013

Deal at Dundas Castle: Scottish Entertainment Event

By Ross MacFarlane|October 29th, 2013|events|0 Comments

On Wednesday night Roddy attended the signing of a £300m deal by financiers at Dundas Castle. Amid the Champagne and Canapés Reel Time were on hand providing the best of Scottish entertainment. Reel Time put on a Full Scottish Show including highly skilled drummers, pipers and clarsach players. During the celebrations two mini pipe bands drummed the beat to mark the momentous occasion. Alongside the vibrant music several Highland Dancers took to the floor to impress the guests in the traditional highland attire. Before food was served Roddy addressed the haggis using Rabbie Burns’ ‘Address to a Haggis.’ Knife in hand, the traditional poem was recited by [...]

16 07, 2013

Arran Whisky and folk festival 2013

By Ross MacFarlane|July 16th, 2013|events|0 Comments

The Scraggly cats playing at the Arran Folk Festival The Reel Time Ceilidh Band - Scraggly Cats were over in Arran last weekend for the Whisky and folk festival. This tied in nicely with the Arran Distillerys 18th birthday party, and what fun was had! The band played in the distillery grounds in the afternoon for the revellers, before heading off to the Lochranza village hall for a cherished moment in any ceilidh bands career, the Scottish island ceilidh! The band played an afternoon set of rocking ceilidh music and pop [...]

29 05, 2013

Reel Time Whisky tasting

By Ross MacFarlane|May 29th, 2013|bars, conferences, events|0 Comments

Reel Time Events is a whisky tasting company based in Edinburgh. We were asked to put on a Whisky tasting for a health and safety conference dinner. We arrived at the Hilton in Glasgow while the guests were enjoying their dinner. Setting up the Whisky stations in a room adjacent to the dining guests. The guests enjoyed a short presentation by Whisky writer and poet, Robin Laing, who explained the nosing technique and why Whisky was good for their health and safety! We had 3 different tasting stations set up, with the three experts talking [...]

28 03, 2013

Reel Time Events and Visit Britain entertain the Travel Trade.

By Ross MacFarlane|March 28th, 2013|events|0 Comments

The Reel Time team were recruited by Visit Britain to entertain 500 international travel trade guests. With all the exciting events coming to Scotland in 2014, there is a real push to market Scotland to international buyers; with the Ryder Cup, commonwealth games and a year of Homecoming The event was hosted at Wembley Stadium and was Visit Britains biggest annual event for business to business buyers. Reel Time Events conducted the whisky tasting overlooking the famous Wembley pitch. Guests enjoyed a selection of fine malt Whisky, hosted by Ambassador John McCheyne. Roddythepiper [...]

11 02, 2013

Dundas Birthday Bash – Ceilidh at the Castle

By Ross MacFarlane|February 11th, 2013|events|0 Comments

A fantastic weekend of birthday celebrations was had by all at Dundas Castle over the weekend with entertainments supplied by the one and only Reel-Time Events! After an impressive Scottish feast in the Stag Chamber the guests were led into the Grand Hall to be met by 2 of Reel-Times incredible Highland dancers. Their performance was accompanied by Pipe Major Greig Canning, one of our fine championship pipers, and the party guests treated to a traditional and energetic series of reels and flings. If you are unfamiliar with this style of dancing then [...]

21 11, 2012

Cocktail production at the Signet Library

By Ross MacFarlane|November 21st, 2012|bars|0 Comments

The Reel Time Bars team were called in on Friday night to provide a specialist cocktail production service at a gala dinner at Edinburgh’s Signet Library. The event organiser from the law firm brief was to create a choice menu of 10 cocktails to tickle the guest’s tipples. They wanted this to feel like a style bar. We designed our cocktail list based around three main styles of cocktail – shaken, built and stirred - all of which were guaranteed to truly wow the guests! We also wanted to give the guests a [...]