Beatherder add Kraak & Smaak as festival exclusive

Making a UK festival exclusive will be The Netherlands' electronica act Kraak & Smaak top the latest acts confirmed for the seventh Beatherder Festival joining Orbital at Lancashire festival.

The Dutch trio will be headlining the Beat-Herder Sunday evening slot along with their full live band. Ambient techno outfit System 7 added to the Saturday line-up. Appearing on Sunday evening in the woods will be Jalapeno Sound System, and Eddy Temple Morris will be entertaining the Friday evening crowds with the Sugarbeat Club, in the woods along with Lancashire born DMC champion DJ Woody.

Also announced today are Stealing Sheep, Mr Woodnote, Lil Rhys, Middleman who will appear in the Rajazzle Tent.

Trailer Trash will host additions Drum Machine (as featured on Britain's Got Talent), The 59ers, and Dub Smugglers.

Stumblefunk have added Skittles'n'that, and Extra Love, plus DJ sets from Steve Thorpe, Ken Evil vs COMPA.

Venues Smokey Tenticles and The Perfumed Garden Stage will welcome a host of DJs and live acts and the Bushrocker Hifi will be home to a plethora of DJs spinning roots, reggae and dub including Asher G.

The previously announced Orbital will headline. Also confirmed are Death In Vegas, Lee Scratch Perry, Mr Scruff & Mc Kwasi, Goldie, Freestylers DJs, James Holden, The Orb Sound System, Nathan Fake, Jake Bugg, Pariah, King Charles, Ellen and the Escapades, The Beat, Utah Saints, D/R/U/G/S, Pilooski, Barry Ashworth, The Lancashire Hotpots, Sicknote, Dogshow, CODA, Shepdog, Discopolis, Frisky & Mannish, Mooqee, Smerins Anti-Social Club, Toni Jarvis, The Drop, The Other Tribe, The Undercover Hippy, United Vibrations, Black Lace, Aeroplane, Biggles Wartime Band, Crosscut Saw, DJ Sneak Beats, Dooks, Drymbago, Emmott & The Folkestra, Etienne De Crecy, Fake Blood, Girl Unit, Grinny Grandad, Ivan Campo, Japenese Popstars (DJ Set), Jinx in Dub, Johnny Powell, Kitten & The Hip, Kora Fula, Krysko, Operator 6, Parov Stelar, Phil Smith, Rudimental, Rumour Has It, Slamboree, The Banana Sessions, The Whip, Thewisegoldfish, The Wonderful Sound of the Cinema Organ, and Yes Sir Boss.

For the line-up details, day and stage splits, as available please click here.

There will be several other unique features to the festival including tasty home-made cakes and pies which can only be found in Lancashire and the intriguingly collectively titled ‘Crazed Inventions’ which include vibrating benches and a network of tunnels that lead you to different zones, ‘The Street’, a thespian orientated experience where one can get a tattoo, a haircut or a wet shave, browse the book shop and antiques emporium, or play records in the DIY Garage disco and transport yourself to different areas of the festival via the teleport phone box tunnel system.

The three day Beatherder festival takes place in Gisburn, Lancashire, with the dates for this the seventh year confirmed as Friday 29th June until Sunday 1st July 2012. The festival is independently funded and has no involvement in corporate organisations, nor does it receive any sponsorship.

Tickets are priced at £100. A child ticket for those aged 12 and under are priced at £17, with infants (18 months and under) able to attend free. A car parking ticket is priced at £6. A campervans/live-in vehicle pass is priced at £17 - festival goers are asked to buy these in advance to reduce the queues seen in 2011.

To buy tickets, click here.

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