PREVIEW: Doune the Rabbit Hole adds more acts!

Along with an animated video featuring the current lineup, Doune the Rabbit Hole announced some additions to their already brilliant lineup in the last few days. 

Cult Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk AKA Venetian Snares heads up the additions and will play on Sunday August 25th. Adding to the already kaleidoscopically eclectic bill, Planet Mu Records’ Venetian Snares take drum ‘n’ bass and breakcore to a new level. Also on the Sunday festival goers will be treated to funky Afrobeats from Samba Sene & Diwan, a seven-piece international Senegalese band currently based in Scotland as well as rambunctious funk rock fusion outfit Bar Room Crawl play on the Baino stage.

Eclectic folk-rock band Trembling Bells and hypercolour indie dance producer- performer Miaoux Miaoux play the Baino stage on Friday; On Saturday we welcome back the indescribably mad and brilliant Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 and John Knox Sex Club make their return to the scene, to the joy of this blogrunner. 

These additions follow up the announce that the festival has also added a dance-themed performance space for live acts and DJs, curated by Glasgow’s Low End Collective. Acts include techno DJ Rebecca Vasmant, Glasgow hip hop duo Hector Bizerk, reggae soundsystem Argonaut Sounds and a plethora of Scottish talent over a range of styles to keep visitors dancing all weekend. 

And it all begins one day earlier this year with an extra mini line up on Thursday night – featuring Orkestra del Sol, at no extra cost to those arriving early.

These acts join those already on the bill – including Alasdair Roberts & Friends, Clinic, The Pastels, PAWS, Rachel Sermanni, Machines In Heaven, Stealing Sheep, Zs, Robyn Hitchcock, Arbouretum and many more.

Cosmic Dead will now play on Sunday and Mother Ganga will now appear with their project Flaccid House! July are unfortunately no longer able to join us on Sunday due to illness. Zun Zun Egui, The Wellgreen and Flamingods are also no longer performing due to other commitments.

Get tickets right now at http://dounetherabbithole.co.uk/tickets – buy before August 1st to save £10 on adult full price camping weekend passes. Under 12s go free and day tickets are available. Use Go Car Share, the festival’s lift share partners, to fix up up your carbon footprint-friendly ride and make some new friends! http://dounetherabbithole.co.uk/gocarshare/

Watch the animated lineup video below:

NEWS/PREVIEW - Doune the Rabbit Hole guest stage lineups

This year's Doune the Rabbit Hole festival, which takes place for the first time at Cardross Estate, has two stages curated by guest promoters: On Friday August 23^rd music platform Ten Tracks supply the bands and on Saturday August 24th poetry and music night Neu! Reekie! have invited the guests.

Ten Tracks – http://www.tentracks.co.uk - the “360 degree platform for the marketing and retail of music” with a focus on emerging artists from Scotland’s central belt – will bring their stage to life on Friday August 23 with  a collaboration between Lipsync for a Lullaby, Tokamak and Asthmatic Astronaut, as well as sets from Lady North, Numbers Are Futile, Buriers, acclaimed poet Ryan Van Winkle who will be backed by films from Reel Festivals and more.

Saturday 24^th sees Neu! Reekie! - http://neureekie.tumblr.com/ -  the Edinburgh-based poetry, music and animation night, take over the guest stage with music from acts including Teen Canteen, The Sexual Objects, Nevada Base and Jesus, Baby! and a Spoken Word Saloon from Neu! Reekie! ringmasters Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson.

Full Guest Stage Line Up

TEN TRACKS

Friday 23rd August

Asthmatic Astronaut

Lady North

Numbers are Futile

Collaboration hosted by The Woven Tents

Plastick Fork

Small Feet Little Toes

Ryan Van Winkle & Reel Festivals

Royal Edinburgh Music

Buriers

NEU! REEKIE!

Saturday 24th August

Nevada Base

The Sexual Objects

TeenCanteen

The Machine Room

Birdhead

Craig Lithgow/Emelle

Craig Finnie/Sons of Nothing

Hailey Beavis  & Band

Jesus, Baby!

Neu! Reekie! Spoken Word Saloon: Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson

You can buy tickets for Doune The Rabbit Hole now and save £10 on the full price before August  1^st via http://dounetherabbithole.co.uk/

LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT: GoNorth Festival

Inverness is home to GoNorth Festival this June. The annual Creative Industries Festival features a broad range of music, screen, publishing, fashion and interactive content. Each year the event brings a wide programme of panels, workshops, film screenings, training opportunities, Q&A sessions, keynote interviews and live music showcases to the North of Scotland.

Now in its 13th year, today the music showcase lineup was announced. “We are delighted with the quality and range of acts invited to showcase at this year’s goNORTH,” said director for Music Shaun Arnold. “The A&R process to establish our 2013 list proved particularly challenging as we received a record number of high quality submissions. As goNORTH continues to develop, each year the music element becomes increasingly competitive. We would like to offer a huge thank you to all the acts that applied to play this year and look forward to delivering our most ambitious showcase programme to date.”

2013 SCOTTISH SHOWCASE LIST:
ALARM BELLS
ALGERNON DOLL
ARCHES
ATLAS:EMPIRE
BE LIKE PABLO
BEAR ARMS
BEHOLD THE OLD BEAR
BIRDHEAD
BLACK INTERNATIONAL
BOOK GROUP
CALL TO MIND
CAMPFIRES IN WINTER
CARNIVORES
CASUAL SEX
CLEAVERS
DAVEY HORNE
DONALD MACDONALD & THE ISLANDS
DUNCAN OVERMEER
DYLAN TIERNEY
EUGENE TWIST
FAKE MAJOR
FAT GOTH
FLUTES
FOREST FIRES
FRIENDS IN AMERICA
GALOSHINS
GARDEN OF ELKS
HECTOR BIZERK
HOMEWORK
JEMMA TWEEDIE
JO MANGO
KOBI
LIDH
LIONEL
LITTLE FIRE
MIKE NISBET
MINIATURE DINOSAURS
PINACT
PLASTIC ANIMALS
POOR THINGS
PRONTO MAMA
RED RONSON
ROMAN NOSE
SAINT MAX AND THE FANATICS
SHAMBLES MILLER
SO MANY ANIMAL CALLS
THE BOY WHO TRAPPED THE SUN
THE BROKEN RAVENS
THE DEADLINE SHAKES
THE IMAGINEERS
THE LAFONTAINES
THE MOUSE THAT ATE THE CAT
THE OK SOCIAL CLUB
THE OXIDES
THE RECOVERY
THE SEA ATLAS
THE VELVETEEN SAINTS
THE YAWNS
VASQUEZ
WILLIE CAMPBELL
WOODENBOX

LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT AND PREVIEW - Doune at the Rabbit Hole 2013

Back for its fourth year, Doune at the Rabbit Hole today announced its new location and full lineup to whet the appetites of festival goers everywhere.

Hoping to bring a psychedelic summer to Stirlingshire with a musical line up headlined by cult Liverpool band Clinic, Scottish folk-rock troubadour Alasdair Roberts & Friends and 60s psych heroes July. Glasgow indie legends The Pastels and punk-pop trio PAWS are also on the bill.

Also joining the festival at the new location of Cardross Estate, Port of Mentieth are Orkestra Del Sol who headline an extended Thursday evening bill with Machines In Heaven and Honey & The Herbs.

Friday sees headliner Alasdair Roberts & Friends on the main stage, along with The John Langan Band, Meursault and Haight Ashbury. The intimate Fruitstand stage welcomes Rick Redbeard, Steve Adey and Stanley Brinks and the Baino tent is headlined by PAWS as well as featuring Gallon Drunk, Arbouretum, Galoshins and The Cosmic Dead. A guest stage will be curated by Ten Tracks and features bands including Buriers.

Saturday’s main stage bill features Clinic, The Pastels, The Monochrome Set, Washington Irving and Panda Su among others. The Fruitstand line up includes Robyn Hitchcock, Rozi Plain and The Wellgreen. The Baino welcomes Zun Zun Egui, Bomskare and Stealing Sheep. A guest stage will be

curated by Edinburgh’s poetry and music fusion collective Neu Reekie and will feature among others The Sexual Objects and Teen Canteen.

Sunday’s headliner is 60s psych-rock legends July, the main stage also welcomes The Horndog Brass Band, Hidden Masters and Randolph’s Leap among others. The Fruitstand has Rachel Sermanni, The Banana Sessions, Jo Mango and Siobhan Wilson, while The Baino’s line up includes Z’s, Bo Ningen and Three Dimensional Tanx.

The popular Inspire Stage will run all weekend as well as the Low End Dance Stage – with guests including Rebecca Vasmant and The Line Of Best Fit DJs. Expect a cinema tent, art trail and lots of workshops suitable for the whole family.

“We’re thrilled with our new location,” said Jamie Murray, festival director. “Cardross Estate is on the boundary of Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park. It’s a beautiful site which has experience of hosting outdoor events meaning we can make the production better than ever, suffice to say it's a lovely flat, oak and beech-filled pasture!”

Doune The Rabbit Hole is a small-scale festival where music, art, spoken word performances, workshops and activities for a family audience are the focus.

Tickets for the festival, which takes place August 22-25 2013 are available now from Brown Paper Tickets via Dounetherabbithole.co.uk. Full adult weekend camping tickets cost £78, children under 12 go free and day tickets are available, (see http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/305937 for full

details).