Belladrum acts announced
EIGHTIES Scottish rock legends Texas and Deacon Blue will headline the eighth Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival in August.
The festival is a first for Deacon Blue - their first appearance at any Scottish festival.
Lead singer Ricky Ross said: "If we have played one before it's so lost in the mists of time that we've forgotten.”
Also joining Deacon Blue at Bella on August 5 and 6 as headliners are Texas.
Texas are quoted as saying: We've heard so much about Belladrum and are really looking forward to performing there."
Other acts announced include the return to the Highlands of singer-songwriterNewton Faulkner, Leonard Cohen's backing singers The Webb Sister, folk/punk Frank Turner, Scots indie band Admiral Fallow and cult blues country rockers Cousti - who bagged both Radio 2 legend Bob Harris and Creation records legend Alan McGee in their last single video.
Also booked for the two-day festival are top international reggae act Easy Star All Stars, indie rock quartet Little Comets and alt-folk Dry The River who mix Americana, gospel and indie rock, Australian blues singer-songwriter CW Stoneking, Skerryvore, electro-acoustic band Saint Saviour, singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, kick-ass gypsy punk band Drunken Balordi, glam trach punks Diddums and HIghland band James Mackenzie & The Aquascene.
Festival organisers have warned regular Bella fans to buy their tickets soon as tickets are already selling at double the rate of last year’s event which sold out well in advance.
“We don’t want our long-term supporters to be caught out and left without tickets if they intend coming,” said festival director Joe Gibbs.
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.
For ticket inforamation, go to www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
