HEADPHONE DISCO DJ COMPETITION
AT BELLA
Aspiring DJ spinners going to Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival (2nd and 3rd August; beauly, Inverness-shire) have an opportunity to play at Scotland’s number one boutique festival.
Bella is partnering with Headphone Disco to offer four 30 minute DJ slots over the course of the festival weekend. Lucky winners will get to perform alongside Headphone Disco’s resident DJs from the silent disco stage located in the Hothouse. They’ll take over one channel of Headphone Disco’s two-channel silent party for a full hour and perform in front of a potential audience of thousands.
Entrants just upload a 20 minute DJ mix to Soundcloud, forward the link tocompetitions@headphonedisco.com and the judges will select the four best entries, each of whom will get the chance to shine from the big stage.
The deadline for entries is Monday 1st July and winners will be announced on the Bella Facebook page on Friday 12th July. The judges are looking for exciting mixes that inspire them, reflect the Bella vibe and ethos and which will work well in front of a typical Bella crowd. Get creative, think eclectic and let’s see if you’ve got what it takes to rock the party!*
This year, Bella patrons can buy e-tokens for their bar tokens in advance and exchange them on the way in at the box offices. Tokens can also be bought at the usual tokens booth at the event. And tickets are also available for the Portaloo Sunset posh toilets which will be sited at the top of the Red Campsite, near Mother’s Ruin. All these are can be found at www.skiddle.com. Campervan/ Caravan tickets have sold out.
Manchester indie legends James and Glasgow rock prodigies Twin Atlantic have been booked to headline along with an exciting and wide-ranging list of other acts including: The Straits – former members of Dire Straits; the British band Noisettes; bluesman Seasick Steve; stellar garage rockers The Horrors and Bella favourites Alabama 3; King Charles and Scots indie artists Admiral Fallow; Rumours of Fleetwood Mac, indie favourites Pi`geon detectives, We Are The Ocean, Baby Strange, Frank Hamilton and Celtic rockers Peatbog Faeries who played the first Belladrum Festival way back in 2004; acoustic-folk-hip hop artist Lucy Spragganand emerging soul artist Jacob Banks, fresh from touring with Emile Sande; singer-songwriterAndy Burrows, former member of Razorlight ; Scots folk stars Dougie MacLean and Julie Fowlis with folk legend Martin Carthy and singer songwriter ex-Arab Strap Malcolm Middleton; Gavin James, an impressive young singer-songwriter from Ireland and Rick Redbeard of the Phantom Band; pagan pop-folk all-girl trio Stealing Sheep and gentle Geordie jazzy swingy country troupe Shipcote and Friends; It’s A Beautiful Day, created during San Francisco’s 1967 ‘Summer of Love;’ folk rockers Treetop Flyers who won Glastonbury’s 2011 emerging talent competition; C&W exponents My Darling Clementine and bluegrass Southern Tenant Folk Union; Scotland’s much loved Celtic rockers, The Dangleberries; Jericho Hill – three ex-punks and a cowboy playing Johnny Cash; Victorian Trout Conspiracy, great ska from Edinburgh; Scots indie bands Meursault, Washington Irving, PAWS, Withered Hand, The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, Anderson McGinty Webster Ward & Fisher, Shutter, Vasquez, Wooden Box, the Oxides, Ashley & The Cosmonauts, Be Like Pablo and The Lafontaines ; emerging singer-songwriters Tich andNick Mulvey; Scotland’s most tipped unsigned band, Fatherson; local heroes Scooty and the Skyhooks, Brown Bear and the Bandits from Largs. Skerryvore, Coca Tenorio, FaR, Taghta, Feis Rois, Rhythm and Reel, Mind Funk, Hoodja, Caledonian Ceilidh Trail andToby Michaels Rolling Damned from the Highlands
Full weekend, Saturday, child (12 & under), electrical hook-up upgrade e-tickets for camper vans and caravans can be purchased by going to the ticket link on the festival’s web sitewww.tartanheartfestival.co.uk.
Prices have been pegged at 2012 levels. Booking fees have been reduced on e-tickets and a new ticket deposit scheme has been introduced for customers wishing to buy full weekend tickets in installments. Bella has sold out each of the last four years, often months before the event so fans are urged to buy early to avoid disappointment.
The 2013 theme is ‘Carnival’, in keeping with the birthday party atmosphere the milestone event is bound to create. A video of the 2012 event created by Tom Welsh from Deluxe.com, Edinburgh, can be seen on the event’s web site.
Belladrum 2013 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’.
