Insider 2011

Returning for a third year and now Victorian flavoured The Insider set in the gardens and grounds of the Inshriach estate, in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park and with 30 acres of riverside camping shared by just 500 people the Insider is a bohemian garden party adventure. The festival takes place from Friday 17th until Monday 20th June 2011.

Expect a Victorian Golden Age with locally sourced food and a bar to suit the most discerning palette. Afternoon tea, cakes and cocktails. Pimms, performers and entertainers. Trigonometry, taxidermy, croquet and crochet. Bards, ballads, ballooning and boatmen. Horse trading, cock fighting, bear baiting and badger wrestling. Bunting, bathing and basking.

Line-up

Friday: Washington Irving, Rachel Sermanni, Mans Ruin, The Bonfire Band, Nevada Base, Kettle Of Kites, Rura, Capitals, Niteworks, Finlay Napier, Michael Mclennan, Sam Lee, Soutra, Mesuma, Downtown Wolves, Homework, Duke Yowie, Chesterwhin, The Insider Orchestra.

Saturday: Admiral Fallow, Stanley Odd, The Banana Sessions, Woodenbox With A Fistfull Of Fivers, Bronto Skylift, The Horndog Brass Band, Shoogle(!), The John Knox Sex Club, Sam Lee, How To Swim, Abagail Grey, The Mike Kearney Ka-Tet, Provinylist Karim, Donna Maciocia, The Last Battle, Robin Adams/The Train Crash Choir, Kitty The Lion, The French Wives, The Bevvy Sisters, Gecko 3, Dj Astroboy, The Little Kicks, Black Cat, Dead Mans Waltz, Adopted As Holograph, Crow Road, Dj Nem, Lord Rochester, Trapped Mice, My Jet Black Tractor.

Sunday: Lau, Hidden Orchestra, Michael Marra, Charlie Mckerron & Friends, Geese, Macmaster/Hay, The Duplets, Let’s Talk About Trees, Rossco Galloway, Jarlath Henderson, Hopwood & Black, Chris Bradley, James Mackenzie & The Aquascene, Dolphin Boy, Inge Thomson, Duncan Drever, Aka Zoetrope, Martin Green, Feis Spe, Iain Thomson & Laura-Beth Salter, Gwendolen Chatfield, The State Broadcasters Vs Endor, Adam Beattie & The Consultants, The Insider Jazz Ensemble.

Plus film and animation from Forkbeard Fantasy, Rufus White, Legstring and Armstrung.

Tickets

Weekend tickets are £75, day tickets are £25 for Friday and £35 for Saturday or Sunday, they are available locally at the Ord Ban Restaurant, the Old Bridge Inn and the Doo Below and will soon be available online.

Camping

Camping is include in the ticket price. There is also the option to hire Red Kite Yurts for £500. Other fine festival dwellings of varying size and luxury may be available. A campervan pass is an extra £10, and car parking is £5.

Getting there

Aviemore station is 5 miles away from where you could share a lift. The organisers will provide a bus at busy times for £5. If you arrive by horse drawn carriage, hot air balloon, traction engine, penny-farthing or flying machine you will be issued with ale tokens to the tune of £20 per conveyance.

Green ethos

Green ethos The festival is locally organised and all the food, drink, and most of the bands are locally sourced, apart from maybe a couple from Ireland, and probably some Scandinavians. Wherever possible the bars and stages are made of recycled materials and the whole event takes place in an area of outstanding natural beauty. The Firewood festival is about woodworking, trees and renewable energy and the National Park have provided an electric car for the organisers to run around in.

The Insider happens in an area of outstanding natural beauty and they want it to stay that way. Please remember that horses live in the fields the rest of the year and don't leave anything behind.

More information will be here when available.

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