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00:00I think it's a horrid shame that Ironworks has closed down.
00:04The amount of fascinating bands that were coming up and being able to play there
00:12was extraordinary. Apart from the large stadium size acts, it was getting acts that
00:19Edinburgh and Glasgow were able to have that legitimised Inverness in such a great way
00:27because it made a proper base that people could go on tour to. That's what bands need to do.
00:36On the positive side, MacGregor's, I think, has been a great establishment to get music
00:47accessible. The fact that the main IP to it is relying on live music
00:55and embracing the culture, I think, is fantastic for that genre of music.
01:03Ironworks was doing everything from dance acts to all kinds of acts, but MacGregor's
01:11is something, because that was always something I always felt was so strange to be able to
01:16kind of, why can't you easily access Celtic music? Every Irish pub on the planet has Irish music,
01:24but Scottish places just seem to run away from it. I think Bruce has done a great thing
01:31with MacGregor's. You've got the music side, and then the accessibility with Eden Court now,
01:41the fact that all those touring productions are starting off in Inverness now, I think, is a
01:47massive stepping stone for them. Having a different, not the usual planning,
02:00cinema-wise, I think, is also very exciting because the big chains tend to kind of play
02:07the big movies, like the size of movies I work on, but there are other movies out there for
02:15other audiences, and I think Eden Court's been doing very well at showcasing that.