Belladrum music festival sells out

BBC – The Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival has sold out, its organisers have confirmed. Glasgow singer Amy MacDonald and the band Feeder will be among the headline acts appearing at next month’s event at Beauly, near Inverness. Other acts to appear over 6 and 7 August include The Wailers, Levellers, The Vatersay Boys, Stornoway, Badly [...]

Badly Drawn Boy latest to sign up for Belladrum

Press and Journal – MERCURY Prize winning singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy is the latest artist to be confirmed for the Tartan Heart Festival at Belladrum this summer. The star is best known for his album The Hour of Bewilderbeast and his soundtrack to the film, About A Boy.

Insider proves that small can be beautiful

Press and Journal – THE dust has barely settled on RockNess, but the party-loving folk of the Highlands are gearing up to stage another musical event, The Insider festival. While RockNess catered for music fans in their thousands, The Insider, which takes place in the grounds of splendid Inshriach House, near Aviemore and within the [...]

VIDEO: RockNess 2010

The Inverness Courier and Highland News have both posted video highlights from RockNess.

RockNess 2010: A happy event

Multi agency partners are happy to report that RockNess 2010 has passed without any serious incidents and revellers did not let the spell of bad weather dampen their spirits.
This year saw one of the lowest levels of reported crimes, with 14 people detained over the event for alleged crimes including drug dealing, theft, assault, drink [...]

Organisers hail RockNess a success

Press and Journal – One of Scotland’s fastest-growing music festivals was hailed a success last night – despite two lifeboat call-outs and a handful of arrests. Police seized a “significant amount” of drugs during the three-day RockNess festival which was on the banks of Loch Ness over the weekend, but overall they praised revellers for [...]

Weather doesn’t dampen RockNess spirits

Northern Constabulary are praising festivalgoers who remained in good spirits despite the spell of bad weather at this year’s RockNess mucic festival.
A total of twelve people have been detained for alleged crimes at the event, including drug dealing, minor assault, and breach of the peace, but the number of reported crimes remains low.
Those attending the [...]

RockNess round-up: All the news in one place

All the best best news, interviews and reviews from the national and music press:

STV
The Strokes bring RockNess 2010 to finish: is this it?
RockNess proves itself to be a Vitalic festival
The Bloody Beetroots tear up RockNess
Blondie prove they’re not GaGa yet at RockNess
The Cuban Brothers enjoy touching audience at RockNess
Plan B reveals Plan A at RockNess [...]

RockNess: Plug pulled on rebel act

Canadian band Crystal Castles were forced to halt their RockNess performance tonight (Friday, June 11) due to a crowd surge. With their sedate (by their standards) second album the organisers of RockNess could have been forgiven for expecting a relatively calm time during Crystal Castles performance on the main stage. However nothing could be further [...]

RockNess: Police seize drugs and halt defective buses

Police seized ’significant quantities’ of drugs on the opening day of RockNess as part of their pro-active approach to keep the music festival as safe as they can.
And ten large coaches were forced out of service after police found defects and offences.
A total of 41 positive drugs searches were carried out since the campsite opened [...]

RockNess gets set to receive 35,000 music fans

STV – More than 35,000 expected on shores of Loch Ness to watch acts including Fatboy Slim, Blondie and The The RockNess festival gets under way on the shores of Loch Ness on Friday as the event celebrates its fifth birthday. Thousands are to flock to the venue at Dores, Inverness-shire, to watch bands including [...]

35,000 get ready to RockNess

Highland News – Are you ready to RockNess? If not, don’t panic, the Highland News has teamed up with Eastgate Shopping Centre to make sure you have all your festival essentials for this year’s Loch-side event. As 35,000 prepare for the festival, revellers are being encouraged to visit Falcon Square tomorrow (Friday) from 11am-3pm to [...]

VIDEO: RockNess to kick off summer festival season

STV – RockNess festival director Jim King has spoken to STV about the build-up to this weekend’s event, and how things are looking at the Highland site ahead of thousands of festival-goers arriving. Kicking off the summer festival season, RockNess takes place at Dores near Inverness from Friday to Sunday, and is now in its [...]

Inverness electrician wins RockNess tickets

The Sun – Electrician Stuart, 41, from Inverness, is taking EIGHT old mates to the festival after winning our amazing contest for FREE tickets.

Have a ball at RockNess

The Sun – THERE’S just eight days to go before two of the biggest events of the summer kick off – the World Cup and the RockNess music festival. And The Scottish Sun aims to bring you the best of both worlds with the TV Screen at the Scene.

All roads lead to RockNess

Next weekend, all roads will lead to RockNess, and revellers will be driving it, bussing it, training it, hitching it and flying in from all over the UK just to get here. So we’re going to map it. Tell us where you are coming from and we’ll put a pin in our map. It’ll be [...]

Loopallu line-up revealed

The Loopallu festival returns for its sixth outing this September, and we’re very pleased to start unveiling the line up.
Idlewild
Turin Brakes
The Bad Shepherds featuring comedian Adrian Edmondson
The Vatersay Boys
Silver Columns

Bob Marley’s wailers coming to Belladrum

Press and Journal – BOB Marley’s legendary The Wailers are to make their first visit to the Highlands as one of the headline acts playing the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival in August.

Dramatic backdrop for Loch Ness whisky festival

The first ever Loch Ness Whisky Festival kicks off with a tasting session on Loch Ness, with the dramatic backdrop of Urquhart Castle.The award-winning Fiddler’s Restaurant and Whisky Bar will host a series of events on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 May 2010 with tastings, tours and cruises in what looks set to be a [...]

Rock4Life fans hope for refund on tickets

Press and Journal – MUSIC fans who bought tickets for the doomed Rock4Life charity concert in the Highlands, which would have featured Status Quo as the headline act, will have to wait up to six weeks to find out if they will get a refund.

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