It was a great pleasure to help the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – EAACI with their welcome ceremony at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC), and march the delegates over to Glasgow Science Centre for their networking reception.

For the Scottish conference welcome ceremony, we had a bagpiper and 3 dancers on stage, performing a highland fling and a reel. This segued into a March over the River Clyde, with 2 pipers, 2 Scottish drummers and 3 dancers waving flags to lead the 1,700 delegates over to their Civic Networking reception.

At the Glasgow Science Centre, the guests enjoyed some Scottish music, along with kilted jugglers and stilt performers, before entering for their Drinks reception.

Have a watch of the Scottish performance

For the Conference Gala Dinner

We provided a Bagpiper and Drummer on arrival. –  (The conference did have a Bee mascot, who kindly lent the bagpiper his mascot head for this video!)

A clarsach duo to play during the drinks reception. And then pop and rock hits with the Scraggly Cats band after dinner.

Thanks to the Glasgow Convention Bureau for all the hard work bringing this conference to the city.

If you are organising a conference in Glasgow and need some assistance with excellent Scottish entertainment to make your conference memorable, then let us know how we can help.

Also, have a look at our page: https://reel-time.co.uk/conferences/glasgow-conference-entertainment/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reel Time’s new experience for the Scottish business tourism market is an immersive 360° video tour of Scotland. We deliver this bespoke virtual reality experience using new Oculus VR standalone headsets (Oculus is owned by Facebook). They don’t require the user to download anything or use their phone.

We filmed an experience that showcases the mountains and glens, the coasts and waters of Scotland. It takes guests on a journey around the beauty of Scotland.

Our 5-minute experience has Scottish castles, wildlife, standing stones and the mighty Talisker Distillery. All discoverable in 360° .

What we can offer our virtual reality experience for:

• As a drop-in experience for conference receptions, where guests may not have the opportunity to visit any more than a conference centre and hotel room whilst in Scotland.
• To support our Scottish whisky and gin interactive experiences. Gues can enjoy during networking and drinks at an event.
• To help product placement for brands with branded experiences featuring product/ production.
• Assisting sales people to sell Scotland “the brand”. Imagine taking your sales appointment to Scotland and providing a 360° tour of your hotel or business events attractions, all in 5 minutes. you will Leave an impression they won’t forget.
• Working with visitor attractions and brands to deliver 360° experiences

Our Scotland virtual reality experience is flexible and can suit a variety of options such as;

• An event: with 5-10 headsets, VR bar, 360° chairs and VR hosts to make the experience smooth for guests’ enjoyment.
• VR 360° headset hire with Scotland experience, per day.
• Branded or edited experiences, with 360° filming, editing and experience delivery.

Find out More

To find out how you can use our Virtual Reality experience at your event, contact the Reel Time Events team.

To find out more about our Virtual Reality Experiences, check our webpage.

Reel Time Events developed the Scotland Experience for an event attended by 1200 technical software specialists for Linux in late 2018 at the National Museum of Scotland. Read the event blog story.

We are delighted to bring this event opportunity to destination management companies, incentive creators and Scottish brands in 2019.

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The Event

The guests were transferred from their Edinburgh city centre hotel after breakfast, arriving at Hopetoun around 9.30 am, to a bagpipe welcome. They were greeted by Donald from Hopetoun, who gave them a potted history of the Estate before the Highland Games briefing started.

The Games

The guests were split into clans to compete over the different events. They were piped on to the field, and the Highland Games commenced.

The clans of 10 had 25 minutes to learn and master each Scottish activity, with points being awarded for marksmanship, dancing ability, fun factor and accuracy.

The activities chosen for this incentive experience were:

• Caber tossing
• Archery
• Highland fling and ceilidh dancing
• Clay shooting
• Scots stone putt

Whilst the Highland Games activities were running, the sound of laughter carried through the air, punctuated with gun fire and the hearty smell of competition.

After the teams had competed around the activity field, they were piped in for their buffet lunch in the plush stables at Hopetoun.

Caterers to the Queen, Heritage Portfolio, presented a hot and cold fork buffet fit for the laird.

The menu was:

• Artisan beef and vegetable stew
• Vegetable lasagne
• Pearl barley, feta, roast aubergine, roast butternut squash and spinach salad
• Beetroot, orange, black quinoa and chilli salad

As guests enjoyed their lunch in the Stables, the activity hosts totted up the scores. Prizes were presented to the Chieftains Champion before the guests headed back on the coach to Edinburgh for an afternoon of sightseeing around Edinburgh Castle, the Edinburgh Old Town and shopping in the New Town boutiques.

The group were out for dinner in a city centre venue, Ghillie dhu and practised the ceilidh dancing they had learnt during the day. We had three highland dancers there to lead the action after they had enjoyed a Scottish banquet.

The professionals

For great Scottish incentive Highland Games experiences, have a look at our Highland Games page, or contact the reel time team for a tailored quote.

For other Scottish incentive entertainment, check out our pop up whisky tasting experience, Tartanium band or kilt hire packages.

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Providing our clients with bespoke entertainment for their events is our passion and we are always excited when we are asked to provide something a little different like the Scotland 360° Virtual Reality experience!

We received one such request recently to provide a variety of entertainment at an evening reception for 1200 technology-focused, mostly male, international delegates of the Linux Foundation.

You can see a preview of the night and what clients said about the experience here.

What entertains the IT crowd?

We offered them the chance to tour some of the amazing sights of Scotland from the comfort of a chair via Virtual Reality.

Using Oculus Go VR headsets, allowed the participants to immerse themselves totally in an amazing adventure and sightseeing tour of Scotland. They got the chance to stand with their feet in the sea on the Isle of Harris, take a boat trip, visit the Talisker Distillery, watch the making of Tweed on a pedal loom and then off to locations from Harry Potter, the Kilmartin Standing Stones and finishing at the Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival.

We managed to offer 400 of the guests, over a period of just over 2 hours, the chance to enjoy the scenery of Scotland and then “meet the maker” of the footage to gain an insight into the 360 VR technology and more details on the where!

To further welcome the guests to Scotland and immerse them even further into the Scottish experience we had bagpipers at the door and Scottish Virtual Reality Highland Dancers doing their amazing dance routines in show spots!

Tartanium were on hand to provide the background music for the networking and a flavour of some of the toe-tapping music, unique to Scotland, in the show spots performed to showcase that music.

Find out about our Scotland 360° Virtual Reality events and more information about our Virtual Reality offering for your conference on our webpage!!

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Reel Time Events were chosen to supply the 2017 Biophysics conference with a range of quality Scottish entertainment.  The conference ran over three days at Edinburgh’s premier conference venue: The EICC. 1500 delegates were in attendance.

Reel Time worked closely with the conference organisers to build a range of Scottish events that would be fun, encourage networking and leave them with a great memory of their Scottish conference.

To conclude the Scottish conference with some signature entertainment, we brought in a mini pipe band to beat the retreat at the end of the last conference session. The delegates were taken completely by surprise, and it was a great lift and conclusion to a successful conference.

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Introducing the new look ReelTimeBand.com.  Featuring some of the best scottish bands for corporate and conference events.  The site showcases everything from bagpipe rock to ceilidh and pop.

Following plenty of hard work behind the scenes, we would like to introduce you to the bands new look:  Click here to be taken straight to the website.

The new website is easy to navigate and has some great video and audio samples.  There are different pages for each of the four Reel Time bands:  the Reel Time Ceilidh Band, Reel Time Folk Band, Scraggly Cats and Tartanium.  Whether you are looking for entertainment for a wedding or a corporate event, the new website will help you to choose the band that will suit your occasion perfectly.

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Travelling from South Africa for their incentive trip Momentum were treated to a truly Scottish experience by Reel Time Events for the Edinburgh part of their journey.  With great collaboration between Reel Time Events and Thundermark in the run-up to the event, guests were treated to the best entertainment possible for their visit to Edinburgh.  To get both groups in the mood for the evenings entertainment they were fitted into kilt outfits for the gentlemen and sashes for the ladies – in all 80 kilt outfits and 70 sashes were successfully fitted across 2 venues over 6 hours, while the Reel Time team also offered some local knowledge and tourist info for how to spend the day, before the evening kicked off in Reel Time Style.

With entertainment at 2 different venues for the 2 groups it was a busy night for the Reel Time Team.  The first groups gala dinner and entertainment was held at the stunning Hopetoun House, where they were greeted by a welcome piper on arrival.  During the drinks reception there was a spectacular surprise Beat the Retreat, to give the guests a real rousing taste of Scotland before sitting down to dinner.  No Scottish gala dinner is really complete without a haggis course and whisky, and this was no exception, with Roddy addressing the haggis for the guests and William Wallace talking to them about the whiskies on offer.  After dinner to really get the pulses racing it was over to the Scraggly Cats, with their rocking ceilidh sound.  Accompanied by highland dancers opening the show with contemporary dance display, guests were treated to a mixture of funky ceilidh and pop from the band, through to conclude the evening on a high.

The second group were treated to their gala dinner and entertainment at the spectacular Ghillie Dhu, where they were treated to a truly exciting evening of entertainment.  With a magician performing street style, close up illusions and slight of hand over the drinks reception, guests were then wowed by Tartaniums high-impact, high-energy performance after dinner.  Blending bagpipes with electric guitar, keys and drums their exciting and innovative take on traditional Scottish ceilidh music created a real excitement with the guests.   Accompanied by their troupe of mini-kilted dancers performing their choreographed contemporary highland dance routine, everyone was treated to an exciting and contemporary twist on  traditional Scottish Ceilidh.

The following day both groups took the opportunity to head south for Scotland vs South Africa in the rugby World Cup, the result going the way of the visitors and adding to their great memories of their trip.

If you would like to discuss your incentive trip to Scotland and see how Reel Time Events can provide an exciting and memorable experience for your staff please contact us.

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Held in the stunning venue of the National Museum in Edinburgh BGL’s senior management were treated to a Scottish show with a contemporary twist from Reel Time Events, where delegates were truly immersed in Scottish culture for the evening.

Reel Time provided the ladies with tartan sashes to compliment the gentlemen in their kilt outfits to get everyone dressed for an evening of Scottish entertainment.  Delegates were welcomed in true Scottish style by a bagpiper as the arrived at the event.  Once inside there was a host of entertainment for everyone to enjoy.  Edinburghs Got Soul Choir wowed from the first level balcony with their powerful, passionate and professional performance to the party below with their rousing and high energy harmonies.

Then it was the Reel Time Bands turn to entertain with their own unique and rocking twist on a ceilidh.  Accompanied by both traditional and contemporary dancers the 7-piece ensemble, complete with singer, rocked the crowd with a Reel Time twist.

To close the night guests were treated to a spectacular “beat the retreat” by Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe band, marching through the museum.  An amazing finale to a very exciting and eventful evening.

For a sneek peek video of the event, and what goes on in the museum after hours click here.

If you would like a bespoke quote for your Scottish evening, tailored to you exact requirements contact us to discuss your requirements

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Reel Time Events had the pleasure of being part of the M&I Forum held in Edinburgh, in conjunction with Visit Scotland, providing a rousing Scottish experience and entertainment for the hundreds of meeting and event planners visiting our city from across the globe.

The Meetings and Incentive (M&I) Forum is a speed dating-style networking event bringing together buyers and suppliers from the events industry across Europe and gives them a taste of what Scotland has to offer. Reel Time Events helped Visit Scotland showcase the best of Scottish entertainment as part of the social programme.

Across the week of the event, Reel Time Events provided stilted Scottish performers and fire performers, along with Roddy the Piper welcoming the delegates to The Assembly Rooms for their evening reception.  Rachel Hair was also there, providing beautiful background music on the clarsach during dinner.

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

For the delegates gala dinner many of the guests wanted to fully immerse themselves in culture and traditions of a Scottish Ceilidh and wear kilt outfits to the event.  With the help of our new “how to measure” kilt video, delegates were able to provide their sizes in advance so that kilt outfits could be provided for all those that wanted one.  Distributed in the afternoon during the Forum at the EICC, guests were able to view our “how to wear” your kilt video for a bit of helpful guidance and gave them the afternoon to get in the mood, ready for the evening of fun and frolics.

The gala dinner itself was held in the National Museum, where the delegates were treated to a rousing and upbeat performance from the Reel Time Band, with their modern and contemporary twist on a traditional ceilidh.  Gemma Donald, Young Traditional Musician finalist, also performed a rousing solo during dinner.  Along with the band, our highland dancers were in attendance, showcasing their skills on the dancefloor for the guests and helping guide them through the various dances called by the band, including one of the largest “Orcadian Strip the Willow” the band has ever seen!

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

For the grand finale, the evening was brought to a close by a “beat the retreat” by a band of pipes and drums, a spectacular end to the evening in a spectacular venue.

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY

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To watch a video of the ceilidh and pipe band click here

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After such an amazing week organised by Visit Scotland, we are looking forward to welcoming many of the delegates organising their own incentive trips and meetings in our beautiful city.  If this is the sort of experience you would like visitors and guests of your conference or incentive trip to experience then please contact us for a tailored quote.

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