Belladrum is please to announce the Seedlings Stage line up. Again we are bringing you a selection of the stars of tomorrow, with a line up featuring some of the fastest rising talent in the UK.

Friday night will see Abagail Gray, Kazoo Funk Orchestra, Jocasta Sleeps, Jack Butler, Captain and the Kings, Rootsystem, Call to Mind, 28 Jacks and Manor Park Elite take to the stage. With Shutter, Twin Atlantic, Edgar Prais, Paper Planes, Alto Elite, Injuns, The Draymin, Jake Cogan and Dotjr performing on the Saturday.
This year the Seedlings tent promises to be the best place to catch some of the most exciting bands of the future, right now.

The festival also recently announced the addition of US alternative rockers The Lemonheads making their only Scottish festival appearance. Glam punk indie rockers The Long Blondes plus emerging indie band The Red Light Company who share management with The Editors and singer-songwriter Pete Molinari who has developed a cult following for his music harking back to the fifties and sixties rockabilly and folk scenes.

These join other recent announcements in the line-up of Cold War Kids, Cage The Elephant, Infadels, Elle S’Appelle, Brute Chorus, Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, The Holloways, Sergeant and Angus and Julia Stone.

The event also now features by popular demand, festival favourites and breakbeat dub dance magicians, Dreadzone. These join headliners The Waterboys and current chart-toppers Scouting For Girls, plus Scots indie heroes Idlewild and heritage psychedelic rockers Jefferson Starship in a star studded line-up.

Belladrum Takes place on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th August in the beautiful Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. Now in its fifith year, the independent festival has built a reputation for its eclectic line-ups, its whacky non-musical entertainments and its all-ages approach. Capacity will remain approximately what it was in 2007 when 12,000 people attended the event.

Adult weekend tickets cost £80 and adult Saturday tickets cost £50. Both include parking and camping. As in previous years, tickets for children 12 & under are free. Tickets are available from www.thebooth.co.uk; www.ticketmaster.co.uk ; www.ticketline.co.uk; and from Eden Court, HMV, Hootenanny and Mania in Inverness; One-Up in Aberdeen; Tickets Scotland in Glasgow and Edinburgh; Home & Music in Tain.

Details of further music and performance artists will be announced in due course.

The line-up further features: French new wave lounge music exponents Nouvelle Vague; two Scots with successful solo careers – ex Del Amitri founder Justin Currie and former Orange Juice band member Edwyn Collins; Folk artists Rachel Unthank & the Winterset, who won the Horizon Award at the 2008 BBC Folk Awards, Kathryn Williams and Mojo Folk Album of the Year 07 winner Lisa Knapp.

World music exponents include banghra-reggae-rock group Kissmet and afro-celtic crossover Baka Beyond and popular bluegrass exponents Southern Tenant Folk Union make an appearance. Celtic artists include popular western isles band The Vatersay Boys plus Salsa Celtica, Old Blind Dogs and borders pipe rockers The Dangleberries. Highland young Celtic musicians Caledonian Ceilidh Trail and Feis Rois open the event as always on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th August respectively.

Glasgow indie band The Attic Lights play the main stage and other Indie artists include The Wallbirds, Big Hand, Captain & The Kings, and Friends Of The Bride. Highland indie bands Lowtide Revelry appear on the main stage backed by the Inverness Gaelic Choir, and The Leonard Jones Potential open the main stage on the Friday .

Dennis Hopper Choppers bring their inimitable form of rockabilly to the event and Union Avenue play their Johnny Cash styled covers and Glasgow’s The Parsonage Choir return to the event.