REEF ADDED TO BELLADRUM LINE-UP
With a string of hit singles including, ‘Come Back Brighter’, ‘Consideration’, ‘Yer Old’ and the one and only ‘Place Your Hands’, Reef are always a firm favourite on the festival circuit.
Other acts added to the bill include, multi-instrumentalist rhythm and blues siblings Kitty, Daisy and Lewis; Blackpool’s Rae Morris who recently provided vocals for Bombay Bicylce Club single Luna; hailing from a small town in Dorset singer-songwriter Roo Panes; and emerging artist Daniel James.
The legendary Tom Jones is to headline the Friday of the festival while the Saturday night features the popular rock band Razorlight at the top of the bill. Frightened Rabbit will return to the event as very special guests. Also featured will be: Billy Bragg; Band of Skulls; Grandmaster Flash; The Temperance Movement; I Am Kloot; Adrian Emondson & The Bad Shepherds; Catfish & The Bottlemen; nine below zero; The Mekons with Robbie Fulks; Casual Sex; Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire; George Barnett; The New Picadilly’s; Esperanza; The Vatersay Boys; Danny & The Champions Of The World; brownbear; Torridon; The Big Fat Electric Ceilidh Band;Raintown; Call To Mind; Randolph’s Leap; Luke Jackson; Dorec-a-Belle; The Lorelei;Scooty & The Skyhooks; Mad Dog McRea; The Singing Kettle; Caledonian Ceilidh Trail and Holly Atkinson from Inverness, the 2013 winner of Bella’s Got Talent. Many more artists are still to be announced.
Electrical hook-up caravan/campervan tickets can be purchased by going to the ticket link on the festival’s web site www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk.
The 2014 theme is ‘Wild Life, in keeping with the party atmosphere the milestone event is bound to create. Belladrum 2014 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’.
