Belladrum additions plus TV screening
BELLADRUM Festival will be televised for the first time, it was announced this morning, along with news of a new stage and more acts for the sold-out event next month.
BBC Alba will be providing live broadcasts from Belladrum on both Friday and Saturday August 5 and 6, from 10pm to midnight.
Presenters Niall Iain MacDonald and Fiona Mackenzie will bring viewers headliner coverage plus highlights from the rest of the festival and interviews, as well as repeats the following weekend. Coverage will also be available on BBC iPlayer.
Belladrum has also now added The Phantom Band, We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Sound Of Guns, Denver singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff and Polarsets.
New stage the Jock Reaper - built using a combine harvester - will see a blend of electro and celtic fusion by showcasing DJs, bands and introducing Celtic crossover acts.
Club night duos Filth (Ross Lyall and Alan Macpherson) and Audiolife (Brian Mackenzie and Alan Macpherson) will headline each night, Filth on Friday, Audiolife on Saturday.Electronic act We See Aliens along with other established Highland acts including Mykol Blyth, The LED and an old school set from Neil Fergusson will also line up with Inverness-based DJs The Boomshake Redemption, Master Shake, Count Clockwork, Bullwhack, Mark Mackenzie, Alan Grant and Connor Bryne.
But the stage also casts its net further, including top Dundee club PHONO who will deliver a line-up featuring an MC, two DJs, live saxophone and percussion, Central Belt clubnight Organised Noise, former ballet dancer Becki Bardot (fresh from a summer playing in Ibiza), Elgin-based M Stell, Fort William’s Graeme Platt and Edinburgh’s Default & Picasso.
The celtic strand includes Grouse Beater Sound System, Sketch - the new project from Iain Copeland formerly of The Peatbog Faeries) and Niteworks from Skye.
In conjunction with Sonicbids, a search was put on to find two live electronic crossover acts to be showcased at the festival and Metal Tech and Fridge Magnets have been chosen.