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| BADLY DRAWN BOY JOINS BELLADRUM LINE-UP |
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| Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival (6th and 7th August, Beauly, Inverness-shire IV4 7BA), which sold out in advance last year, announces another batch of additions to its ever-expanding line-up. We are delighted to announce that Mercury Prize winning singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy is the latest artist to be confirmed for the two day Highland Festival. His debut album ‘The Hour of Bewilderbeast’ picked up the 2000 Mercury award and 2 years later he scored the film adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel ‘About a Boy’ to great critical acclaim. His most recent album and second full film soundtrack ‘Is There Nothing We Could Do?’ features music inspired by the motion picture The Fattest Man in Britain and was released December 2009. Other acts confirmed include; 2010 Ivor Novello nominee Patch William; Glasgow’s 40 strong vocal group The Parsonage Choir; festival favourites The Dangleberries; Brooklyn folk singer Nels Andrews; rising local singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni and Edinburgh’s Alex Gardner who will be joining us hot off the back of supporting JLS on their July tour.  We are also excited to announce the return of one of the Highland’s favourite bands The Lush Rollers making their comeback appearance at this years festival. Rounding up this batch of announcements are Martin Stephenson, Joe Cassidy and the Bex Marshall Band. These join Friday headliners Feeder, the Brit Award-nominated alternative rock band from Wales, have three platinum selling albums to their credit, and Glasgow’s Amy MacDonald, who headlines the Saturday night, has sold over 3 million albums and last played Bella in 2007. Other acts confirmed over the weekend include The Divine Comedy, Bob Marley’s legendary Wailers, Candi Staton, the queen of southern soul; Brighton rock band the Levellers; local heroes Wolfstone; Barra’s The Vatersay Boys; band of the moment Stornoway, Erland and the Carnival, Alex Gardner, Young Fathers, Unicorn Kid, The Woodentops, folk legend Dick Gaughan, John Otway and Beth Jeans Houghton. Belladrum 2010 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 £85. They include parking and camping, except for campervans and caravans which will be charged £25 per vehicle.. As in previous years, tickets for children 12 & under are free. Tickets are available from The Ironworks (www.ironworksvenue.com), The Booth (www.thebooth.co.uk), Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.co.uk), Ticketline (www.ticketline.co.uk ), Tickets Scotland (www.tickets-scotland.com) and Skiddle (www.skiddle.com). Tickets are also available from TicketScotland in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Ripping in Edinburgh, Grouchos in Dundee, One-Up in Aberdeen, The Ironworks, Mania, Hootenanny’s, HMV and Eden Court in Inverness; Beyond The Waterfall in Dingwall, Macallans in Wick and Thurso. The festival is supported in 2010 by the Scottish Arts Council’s Youth Music Initiative*. |