Article: Bella Sells Out!
Belladrum Festival tickets sell out
Highland News: Published: 26 July, 2010
TICKETS for this year's Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival have sold out in record time.
It's the second year running that the music event which this year takes place on August 6 and 7 has sold out in advance.
Festival promoter Joe Gibbs said: "We're absolutely delighted to have sold out two weeks before the event. Please, if you don't have tickets, don't come to the event hoping to buy on the gate because they won't be on sale there."
The final batch of acts confirmed include ex-Razorlight drummer Andy Burrows' new band I Am Arrows. Fence Collective main man King Creosote, Indie-electronica act and Rough Trade signings Wilder, Mulls Sorren Maclean, local act Abagail Grey, and rising star rock chick Tiffany Page complete the 2010 line-up.
Other acts confirmed over the weekend include Eliza Doolittle, Badly Drawn Boy, The Divine Comedy, Bob Marley's legendary Wailers, Candi Staton, the queen of southern soul; Brighton rock band the Levellers; local heroes Wolfstone; Barra's The Vatersay Boys; band of the moment Stornoway, Erland and the Carnival, Alex Gardner, Young Fathers, Unicorn Kid, The Woodentops, folk legend Dick Gaughan, John Otway, The Dangleberries, Rachel Sermanni, Alex gardener, The Lush Rollers, Martin Stephenson, Joe Cassidy, Nels Andrews, The Parsonage Choir and Beth Jeans Houghton.
Feeder, the Brit Award-nominated alternative rock band from Wales with three platinum selling albums to their credit, are headlining the Friday of the festival, and Glasgow's Amy MacDonald, who has sold over three million albums and last played Bella in 2007, headlines the Saturday night.
Among the new non-music features at this year's event are an aerobatics display by the Chang Gang, some vintage fairground rides and Finding The Will theatre company who will perform Shakespeare-related drama in Belladrum Temple.
The independent festival which takes place in the Belladrum Estate, near Beauly, 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'.
published on: 26/07/2010