The Beat-Herder, a boutique festival that takes place each June in the heart of Lancashire, is pleased to announce some exciting additions to the 2012 bill. Headlining Sunday night will be Belgium’s finest electronic export Aeroplane. Armed with his concoction of French house and Balearic beats, Vito De Luca aka Aeroplane will be the perfect DJ set to close the festival in style.
One of the most talked-about DJs of the moment Fake Blood will also be heading to Ribble Valley along with Austrian DJ/producer Parov Stelar who will be making his only UK festival appearance at The Beat-Herder. With his sound-mix of Jazz and Swing samples and electronic music, Stelar has secured his own unique position in the world of music. They join dance-punk quintet The Whip and house/techno legend Etienne De Crecy who has spearheaded French electronica worldwide since bursting onto the scene in 1997.
London producer and Night Slugs member, Girl Unit will be bringing his dubstep influenced sound to the North, along with hotly tipped drum and bass outfit Rudimental, who will also be heading to Lancashire along with electronic outfit Japanese Popstars. Other additions to the bill include, Krysko, Biggles Wartime Band, Operator 6, Cross Cut Saw, The Banana Sessions, Kitten & The Hip, Slamboree, Yes Sir Boss, Grinny Grandad live, DJ Sneak Beats, Stans Magic Foot, Folkestra, Ivan Campo, The Wonderful Sound of the Cinema Organ, Rumour Has it, Drymbago, Dooks and Kora Fula.
The Rajazzle Tent will also see some healthy additions including Mancunian impersonators The Total Stone Roses – a nod perhaps to the real deal who will be playing in Manchester over the same weekend – Alt Track, Defenders of Style, Bad Transmission and Revenge of the Psychotronic Man.
Line-Up:
Aeroplane
Barry Ashworth
Biggles Wartime Band
Black Lace
Captain Hotknives
CODA
D/R/U/G/S
Death In Vegas
Delorean Drivers
Discopolis
DJ Sneak Beats
Dooks
Drymbago
Earthdoctor
Eddie Earthquake & The Tremors
Electric Swing Circus
Ellen & The Escapades
Ennio Maccaroni
Etienne De Crecy
Fake Blood
Freestylers (DJ Set)
Frisky & Mannish
Girl Unit
Goldie
Grinny Grandad Live
Ivan Campo
Jake Bugg
James Holden
Japenese Popstars Dj Set
Jinx in Dub
Johnny Powell
Kajamor Family
Kate Fear
Keep the Drummer Happy
King Charles
Kitten & The Hip
Kora Fula
Krysko
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Mooqee (Bombstrikes)
Mrs Cakehead
Nathan Fake
Nubiyan Twist
Operator 6
Orbital
Pariah
Parov Stelar Live
Phil Smith
Pilooski
Red Tin Dave
Rudimental
Rumour Has It
Shepdog (NICE UP!)
Slamboree
Smerins Anti Social Club
Sunday Afternoon Toil Trees session with Mr Scruff & MC Kwasi
The Banana Sessions
The Beat
The Drop
The Orb Sound System
The Other Tribe
The Whip
The Wonderful Sound of the Cinema Organ
Toni Jarvis (Toolroom)
Undercover Hippy
United Vibrations
Utah Saints
Yes Sir Boss
Entering into its seventh year, The Beat-Herder Festival will be returning to rural Lancashire with its unique formula of live music, locally sourced food & drink and an unpretentious Northern ethos. Based on the simple desire to ‘bring good people together to have a good time in beautiful surroundings’, Beat-Herder is one of the few festivals on the circuit that eschews sponsorship, corporate branding and egos in favour of independent and local stall owners and a refreshingly hand-crafted site, creating a utopia from the outside world for 3 days each summer.
Over the years The Beat-Herder has grown to become nestled perfectly into the landscape around it. The famous Toil Trees stage, one of the most unique festival locations in the country, is set amongst tall firs, draped with throws and sails with spinning images projected onto the trunks and leaves. 2012 will continue to see new venues added that make the most of the beautiful natural surroundings, which includes over 4000 flowers which are lovingly nurtured from seed.
The infamous Beat-Herder Working Men’s Club, a mock-up of a working men’s club run by a group of Bette Lynch-esque ladies, will be making a much-welcomed return (expect Bingo, the hilarious ‘Beat-Herder’s Got Talent’, drag queen acts and much more), plus look out for the Raj themed ‘Rajazzle Tent’, which will be hosting unsigned acts ranging from hip hop to Bangra and a selection of top notch comedy acts on the Sunday.
There will be several other unique features to the festival including tasty home-made cakes and pies which can only be found in Lancashire and the intriguingly collectively titled ‘Crazed Inventions’ which include vibrating benches and a network of tunnels that lead you to different zones, ‘The Street’, a thespian orientated experience where one can get a tattoo, a haircut or a wet shave, browse the book shop and antiques emporium, or play records in the DIY Garage disco and transport yourself to different areas of the festival via the teleport phone box tunnel system.
The Beat-Herder Festival is the brainchild of six creative Yorkshire men who were tired of overcrowded and pretentious festivals that were overrun with the same big brands and corporate sponsors. After first establishing in 2006, the festival has grown year on year both in terms of capacity and line up, and yet crucially the atmosphere remains one that is intimate, charming and above all friendly.
Tickets:
Early Bird Tickets – £85.00
Stocking Fillers – £90.00
Full Price – £100.00
Child Tickets (12 and under) – £17.00
Infant Tickets (18 months and under) – free
Car Parking – £6.00
Campervans / Live-in Vehicles – £17.00
For more details on this year's festival, please visit www.beatherder.co.uk.NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
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