Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Google An icon of the Google "G" mark. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Logout An icon representing logout. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Tick An icon of a tick mark. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Quote Mark A opening quote mark. Quote Mark A closing quote mark. Arrow An icon of an arrow. Folder An icon of a paper folder. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Caret An icon of a caret arrow. Clock An icon of a clock face. Close An icon of the an X shape. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Ellipsis An icon of 3 horizontal dots. Envelope An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Home An icon of a house. Instagram An icon of the Instagram logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Menu An icon of 3 horizontal lines. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Rating An icon of a star. Tag An icon of a tag. Twitter An icon of the Twitter logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Information An icon of an information logo. Plus A mathematical 'plus' symbol. Duration An icon indicating Time. Success Tick An icon of a green tick. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Email An icon of an mail envelope. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square.

‘The screams when Marti took his hair out of his ponytail’: Your memories of Wet Wet Wet and Runrig at Tarlair

Singing in the rain... Fans join in as Runrig belt out one of their numbers.
Singing in the rain... Fans join in as Runrig belt out one of their numbers.

P&J reporter David Proctor dived into our archives to produce a feature about the day Tarlair hosted two of the country’s biggest bands.

The article has sent many of our readers on a trip down memory lane to 1994 when Runrig and Wet Wet Wet took to the stage.

We asked for your memories of that weekend – and you have supplied some brilliant anecdotes.

Here is a selection of our favourites:

“Amazing weekend. I remember watching Jethro Tull at Tarlair also. Great atmosphere. We partied all night. Was such a shame when it all came to an end.”

“Remember it well…was a brilliant weekend, up there Friday to the caravan site, pouring rain, window in car wouldn’t close so inside car got soaked (not even my car it was my sisters ?) but you know what, it was the best music weekend I have had and both bands sets and acoustics around the cliffs were absolutely amazing.”

“I was 16 at the time and went to see Wet Wet Wet with my best friend from school. We had a magic day. I couldn’t believe they had come to perform at Macduff. Their song Love Is All Around was number 1 in the charts at the time.”

“I was there – I remember sitting on the hill watching them. Fantastic weekend even with the rain for Runrig on the Friday – sun came out on Saturday for Wet Wet Wet ?”

“Had a fab weekend when Wet Wet Wet were at Tarlair. They arrived by helicopter and was absolutely buzzing and so was the village beforehand with people out for pre-gig drinks. Fab atmosphere and venue and the weather was in our favour.”

“Remember we were there so early in the morning we heard Wet Wet Wet rehearsing. Then their mini bus came out of Tarlair and I chased after it!! Great memories.”

“Was a great weekend I sat up on the cliffs listening to Runrig, was lots of people, they sounded fantastic, the rumbles coming up the cliff tops next day. We went to Wet Wet Wet, was such a great weekend.”

“I remember being one of the crew of the Macduff fire appliance when we were turned out to pump out the pool pre-Runrig coming on stage as the pool had started to fill up with all the rain water soaking all the concert goers.”

“We were there for Runrig…. Dolphins popped by to say hello and it poured rain but what an amazing night.”

“Remember the noise of the screams when Marti took his hair out of his ponytail. Awesome day!”

You can read day two of David’s series here: