Inverness Northern Meeting Park Inverness reviews by real event-goers

Review of The Gathering

Brilliant music event. Catering stalls were a bit overwhelmed with numbers and there were very long waits in queues. Eg as much as an hour.

Review of The Gathering

Well organised for a new event, helpful stewards, may have to look at queueing issues between the bars and the food outlets. Wasn’t easy with kids who suddenly feel hungry and get upset by the long wait.

Review of The Gathering

Not enough food and drink outlets. Had to queue up to an hour.
More stewards were required in certain areas.
Overall not a great experience.

Review of The Gathering

Fantastic day out

Review of The Gathering

Fantastic day out 😍🍾

Review of The Gathering

well organised apart from inadequate number of food and drink stands

Review of The Gathering

Great afternoon and evenings music. Well managed and run. Could have done with more bar staff...queues horrendous!

Review of The Gathering

excellent from start to finish

Review of The Gathering

Ques were terrible and very overpriced for drinks!

Review of The Gathering

Great day at the gathering in Inverness . Lovely venue great music and so friendly bring on next year

Review of The Gathering

The bars and food got out of hand, the queues were unreal,some people were waiting over an hour to get food....
Toilet queues was dreadful, again waiting 15/20minutes to reach the end of the queues.

Review of The Gathering

Amazing atmosphere esp during Vatersay Boys set. Folk relieved the weather was great, toilets cleaned throughout, but the bar organisation was spoiled by a strange queue system. Some folk in line for an hour. Would have lost them a lot of money, but easily improved upon if it’s on again. Plenty to see and do. Second stage great idea but maybe have it side on to the main stage as it’s quieter acts were drowned out. Really enjoyed it but had we been wanting a drink that would have been a real bug bear. Hats off though, as it was a great mix and good price for ticket itself for range of talent on offer. Shame for both organisers and Peat and Diesel that their stint was overwhelmed - main stage afternoon slot would have got the party started nicely and a wee cordoned off area in front of stage for little ones would have been a laugh.

Anyway very happy to have gone and had a great time. Hoa**e today with all the catching up with friends and singing so that’s a sign it was a success eh

Review of The Gathering

I felt the main bar could have been further back from the stage. Folk in the wheelchair area spent much of the festival looking at the bar crowd which stretched across to the toilets at the other side of the park. Snake barriers would have greatly assisted with this.

Your Stewarding was very good and helpful as was the policing.


Choice of drink was far better than other concerts.

Review of The Gathering

Poorly organised, not enough toilets , drinks and food outlets. Queues for everything up to 2hrs. missing a lot of music. Would not recommend or go back . Felt let down after looking forward to event

Review of The Gathering

The actual venue was perfect. However, there were huge queues for food and drink. As you’re not allowed to bring in your own and the event lasts for 10 hours, the queues were a problem. Even for people wanting only soft drinks, the issue was the same. There were also long queues for the toilets, but they were moving quite quickly. Full marks to the people keeping the toilets clean and stocked with toilet paper and hand sanitiser. Also full marks to the litter collectors, no obvious litter.
Elephant Sessions didn’t do it for me as a band and their set somewhat flattened the atmosphere. However, I do accept that they were part of the wide variety of traditional music on offer on the day.

Review of The Gathering

Great day, queuing for the bar a bit of a pain as was taking about an hour to get served. Apart from that we loved it, would definitely go again.

Review of The Gathering

Food and drink supply far too busy,queues everywhere so that spoiled it
Event was sold out so the numbers were known so what happened?

Review of The Gathering

Great event would have been better if they had allowed folding chairs for the pitch

Review of The Gathering

Had a very enjoyable day. The Trad project were amazing. Wish they could have played longer. The ticket price was too expensive especially for OAP' with no concession. ..The possession of the stage meant awkward viewing for the folks who paid extra to sit in the grandstand. ... Would I go next year ..??? it depends on the price of entry.

Review of The Gathering

Fantastic day. Great music and atmosphere. Queues for food were too slow. 2 hour queue for fish and chips.