Insider Festival 2011

27 May 2011 in Festival, Music

Unique and boutique, The Insider Festival returns for it’s 3rd year. With a capacity of just 750 sharing 30 acres of camping on the banks of the Spey on the Edwardian country Estate of Inshriach House.

The Insider once again hosts the most exciting new music from across the empire with Lau (BBC Radio 2 Folk band of the year for the last 2 years) not only performing but curating the main stage on Sunday, joining them are a host of musical friends including Glasgow’s Hidden Orchestra, Admiral Fallow and the fantastic Horndog Brass Band.

Even though well over 75 bands are performing over the weekend there is lots more to see and do at The Insider including theatrics and parlour games by Manchester’s Larkin’ About, Visuals by the infamous Forkbeard Fantasy, vintage clothing stalls, Bushcraft and much more Victorian themed stalls and revelry to explore.

The finest in locally sourced food includes spit roasts from Ordban, venison, wood fired pizza, The Old Bridge Inn Smokehouse and much more. There are bars to suit the most discerning palate, whether your tipple is local beer from The Cairngorm Brewery or the now legendry Thistley Cross Cider or perhaps Madam would be interested Afternoon tea, cakes and cocktails…

The Insider has carved a unique reputation by being a festival built around and shaped by its musicians. It has seeded wild collaborations, the formation of new bands and has been the setting and inspiration for the recording of albums and music videos.

Pimms, performers and entertainers. Trigonometry, taxidermy, croquet and crochet. Bards, ballads, ballooning and boatmen. Horse trading, cock fighting, bear baiting and badger wrestling. Bunting, bathing and basking.

Let’s Party like it’s 1899!

Line up so far:
Lau, Hidden Orchestra, Admiral Fallow, Stanley Odd, Charlie McKerron and Friends, Macmaster/Hay, The Banana Sessions, The Bonfire Band, Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers, Donna Maciocia, Geese, The Mike Kearney Ka-Tet, Sam Lee, Washington Irving, Capitals, Nevada Base, Horndog Brass Band, Bronto Skylift, How To Swim, Let’s Talk About Trees, The State Broadcasters, Ferret In My Garage, Gecko 3, Robin Adams, The French Wives, My Jet Black Tractor, Chesterwhin, Dave Mcgregor, Rura, Man’s Ruin, Rossco Galloway/The Chans, Kettle Of Kites, Lapsang And The Suchongs, Pilots, The Last Battle, Homework Abagail Grey, Crow Road, James MacKenzie and the Aquascene, The Duplets, The Bevvy Sisters, and more still being added to the bill…

Source: The Insider Festival

www.insiderfestival.com