Kassidy to Headline Bella Stage
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Fast-rising Scots indie band Kassidy have stepped in to replace Frightened Rabbit as Saturday headliners on the Hothouse Stage at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival (5/6 August)
“When Frightened Rabbit had to pull out due to the offer of a tour in the US, we immediately thought of Kassidy,” said festival promoter Joe Gibbs. “They played Bella last year and went down a storm; since then they have sold out The Ironworks and lots of other venues, and we are really proud to be able to offer them their first major festival headline slot.”
“"It's such an honour to be invited back to Belladrum and to be headlining the stage we played last year. We cannot wait!" said Kassidy ‘s Lewis Andrews.
Also added to the Bella bill are the Brit, Mercury and NME awards nominated Guillemots featuring Fyfe Dangerfield; Idlewild’s Roddy Woomble who headlines the Black Isle Brewery Grassroots Stage on the Saturday; Fast Rising Highland Star Rachel Sermanni; there is electronic beats from Unicorn Kid; Aberdeen indie band The Xcerts; alt country singer-songwriter King Charles; acoustic folk artistes Ben Howard and Lucy Rose; 2 piece noisemongers Bronto Skylift; and Raghu Dixit from Bangalore, who describes his music as ‘indo world folk rock.’
The fast speed at which weekend tickets are selling has prompted festival organisers to bring forward the release of a limited number of Saturday adult and 12-and-under tickets via www.skiddle.com (e-tickets only), The Ironworks and Eden Court Inverness.
Twin Scots rock legends Texas and Deacon Blue are to headline the eighth staging of the festival. Also announced for the event are: Echo & The Bunnymen; Frank Turner; Newton Faulkner; Ed Sheeran; Anna Calvi; Admiral Fallow; Easy Star All Stars; Teddy Thomson ; Little Comets; Dry The River; MC Xander; Young Rebel Set; Birdy; 3 Daft Monkeys; Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire; Emile Sande; The Amphetameanies; Wooden Box With A Fistful Of Fivers; The Dangleberries; The Staves; The Webb Sisters; CW Stoneking and His Primitive Horn Orchestra; Skerryvore; Saint Saviour Benjamin Francis Leftwich; Drunken Balordi; James Mackenzie & The Aquascene; Cousti; Diddums; Torridon; Iain MacLaughlin & The Outsiders; and the Rooty Ma Toot Big Band.
Belladrum 2011 takes place in the beautiful Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The independent festival has built a reputation for its eclectic line-ups, its offbeat non-musical entertainments and its all-ages approach. The festival won a VisitScotland Thistle Award in 2009 and is a past winner of the Grassroots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards, the festival industry’s ‘oscars’.
Advance adult weekend tickets are £90 and adult Saturday tickets are £60. They include parking and camping, except for campervans and caravans which will be charged £30 per vehicle.. As in previous years, tickets for children 12 & under are free. Online e-tickets are available from Skiddle (www.skiddle.com) and online hard tickets fromThe Booth (www.thebooth.co.uk), Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.co.uk), Tickets Scotland (www.tickets-scotland.com), Visit Loch Ness (www.lochness.com) , and Eventim.Tickets (www.eventim.co.uk) are also available from TicketScotland in Edinburghand Glasgow, Grouchos in Dundee, One-Up in Aberdeen, The Ironworks, Mania, Hootenanny’s, and Eden Court in Inverness; Off The Peg in Dingwall, Sound & Vision in Elgin, Macallans in Wick and Thurso, Morrisons Ironmongers in Beauly and Kiltarlity Post Office. Saturday tickets are only available from Skiddle, Ironworks and Eden Court
