James & The Magic Numbers for Belladrum Tartan Heart

Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival - which takes place at the Belladrum Estate, by Beauly, Inverness-shire on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th August has announced the first acts for this year.

The main headliners are The Magic Numbers, and the recently reformed James, on the Friday and Saturday respectively.

Also confirmed are UK reggae roots band Misty In Roots, Alabama 3, Julian Cope (headlining on the MacRae & Dick Hothouse Stage on the Friday), and Fife folk maverick and former punk rocker Jackie Leven appears with Robert Fisher of the Willard Grant Conspiracy and Michael Weston King of the The Good Sons. Other bands include The Earlies, The Broken Family Band, and London five piece Ben’s Brother.

Scottish acts includes 1990s, The Dykeenies, Aereogramme, and Crash My Model Car, and The Black Isle Brewery Grassroots Stage has Amy MacDonald, Kris Drever, seventies vetertans String Driven Thing, and The Lorelei.

Also on The Black Isle Brewery Grassroots Stage are 6 Day Riot, Duke Special, Wreckless Eric with Amy Rigby, Piney Gir, Canadian folk rockers Loomer, country and western singer Tom Russell, Martha Tilston, Nick Harper, and Ben Taylor.

The Peatbog Faeries are back for their third appearance, with The Fred Morrison Band, Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain, Blazin' Fiddles, Skilda, Fitkin Wall, and a world music element brought by the Senegalese singer-songwriter Nuru Kane & Bayefall Gnawa all confirmed.

Featuring theatre, cabaret and burlesque is The Venus Fltytrap Stage, which also has music from Tunng, The Strange Death of Liberal England, Circulus. Cabaret and burlesque on the Venus Flytrap will include Glasgow’s Club Noir, and The Flash Monkey Cabaret Casbah, Brighton’s Fake Bush, Slow Club and Minima who perform music they have written to accompany a simultaneous showing of the avant-garde classic French film ‘ The Seashell and the Clergyman’.

They'll also be a new stage featuring comedy curated by the Glasgow Comedy Festival, poetry, debate, interviews and performance art.

Weekend tickets are priced at £70 including camping and parking. Children aged 12 and under are free. Click here to buy tickets.


James back in 2001

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