The Cadies and Witchery Tours

“Soul” Candidate for Holyrood Elections

robin — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:52:08 +0000

Yes, it’s that time again… Ashen-faced phantom Adam Lyal (deceased) steps up to the stump once again to contest the Lothians regional ballot in the upcoming Scottish Parliament Elections. This time, the man behind the mask* is Euan MacInnes, a fresh face with a new and dynamic outlook and an insatiable thirst for making Adam Lyal’s Witchery Tour Party the first in the Parliament’s history to bring real change to the people of Scotland.

From his campaign headquarters in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town, MacInnes reaffirmed his pledge to uphold the party’s key pledges. If elected he will:

Campaign to reduce an MSP’s salary to the minimum wage.
Campaign to send MSPs out on work placements to help them understand what the real world is like.
Donate his annual salary above the minimum wage to three local charities of his choice.
Take his place in the debating chamber with a white face and black cloak. (This pledge alone is worth a vote!)

Euan says, “This is no joke. I’ve built up good support for my campaign, and if the word continues to spread, it’s conceivable I’ll be the first pale-faced phantom to be elected to the Scottish Parliament.” He encourages all Lothian voters to ‘give the ghost a chance’ and choose Adam Lyal’s Witchery Tour Party on their regional ballot paper.

Adam Lyal’s Witchery Tour Party can be found online at http://www.myspace.com/adamlyal/.

*We’ve just been informed it’s not a mask. He really is that good-looking!

Competition finds hard-working student! Official!

robin — Wed, 17 May 2006 01:58:52 +0000

Tour guide Euan MacInnes is declared the institutional winner of the Student Employee of the Year (SEOTY) competition, making him the hardest-working student at Edinburgh University.

We were hoping he’d get a cup or something, but apparently the kudos and respect of his fellow students is reward enough.

An egg(head) a day…

robin — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:51:11 +0000

The Cadies assault the airwaves again! This time it’s a team of four spooks up against BBC2’s formidable team of experts on everything, the Eggheads!

In a nail-biting 30 minute face-off, our lads racked up the show’s best-ever non-winning score before being beaten on the very last question. It doesn’t get much closer than that!

Festival Film Frolics and Retail Records

robin — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:49:12 +0000

Cadies staffers Chris Watt, Cameron Pirie and Fat Boab Mitchell film the short drama Dreams Are Not Enough for The Guardian’s competition. We won’t spoil too much of the plot, but Chris ‘trips out’ and he and Cameron end up in a bath!

Cameron also achieves a retail coup this month, by selling no less than fifty paddimacs in 24 hours. Co-incidentally, this was also the rainiest 24 hours of the 2005 Edinburgh Military Tattoo…

Comic relief for Mr. Lyal

robin — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:34:51 +0000

Adam Lyal turns up in many odd places, but never before has he appeared in comic form - until now! The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, 2000AD, gives a very familiar-looking ghostly guide his own three-panel, speaking part in the story Caballistics, Inc. written by Scottish scribe Gordon Rennie.

Collectors’ note: the issue in question is Prog 1443.

What a Lotto … failure

robin — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:38:03 +0000

Top spooks Chris Watt and Euan MacInnes take on the latest television challenge: National Lottery Jet Set. Chris chalks up a ‘moral victory’ in the heats, but gets nul points with host Eammon Holmes for saying he plans to sell his passport on eBay! He is finally knocked out after claiming that a pentagon has 9 sides.

Silly thing! Everyone knows it’s 24. Right?

Two Tourism Triumphs

robin — Mon, 02 May 2005 00:07:46 +0000

Euan MacInnes is accompanied on his Murder & Mystery Tour by an Evaluator from the Edinburgh Tourist Board. All this time as members of the board, and at last it’s time to decide our Star Rating - Euan clearly ‘wows’ the Evaluator, who awards the tour 4 shiny stars! (Would have been five, except he failed to tell the punters to go and buy things in our shop!)

The end of April also saw the launch of the Edinburgh Pass, a discount smart-card scheme supported by the tourist board and a range of local attractions and businesses including The Cadies & Witchery Tours. This leads to a rash of ghosts sighted with long white ‘tails’ after accidentally depressing the paper-feed button on their mobile card terminal while carrying it over the shoulder.

The Grudge don’t budge

robin — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:03:16 +0000

We participate in The Grudge Competition in the Herald & Post newspaper co-produced with Ster Century Cinema. Viewers of this ‘pant-wetting’ [The Daily Mail] supernatural horror get a chance to win something even scarier: a Witchery Tour! (woo! etc.)

Nation tested; tour-guides victorious!

robin — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:23:58 +0000

Our eight brightest tour staff (i.e. nearly all of them) appear at Wembley (not the stadium, the BBC TV studios) to compete in BBC1’s Test The Nation: The Great British Test.

The Cadies fielded the following team:

Kev O’Donnell (Mad Monk)
Neil Hodgins (Highlander)
Chris Watt (Werewolf)
Andrew Henderson (Beggar)
Ewen Amos (Witch)
Keith Smith (Convict)
Cameron Pirie (Foule Clenger)
Robin Bankhead (Adam Lyal)

Joining supremos from the Loch Ness Centre, Eden Project and others on the Tour Guides team, our combined might sees off all opposition.