Tickets to the tenth staging of Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival went on sale this morning (Thursday 27th September). The festival takes place on 2nd & 3rd August 2013. 

Full weekend, child (12 & under), campervan/caravan and electrical hook-up e-tickets can be purchased HERE  

Prices have been pegged for early birds at 2012 levels. Booking fees have been reduced on e-tickets and a new ticket deposit scheme has been introduced for customers wishing to buy full weekend tickets in installments. 

Bella has sold out each of the last four years, often months before the event so fans are urged to buy early to avoid disappointment. E-tickets are more customer-friendly and less easy to scam, but printed tickets will also be on sale via the usual retail outlets nearer to Christmas. 

The 2013 theme is ‘Carnival’, in keeping with the birthday party atmosphere the milestone event is bound to create. “We really hope as many as possible of those people who have supported us in the past will come and celebrate this significant birthday at Bella, but we will also hope to welcome the usual complement of newcomers to the event” said festival promoter Joe Gibbs. 

A new video created by Tom Welsh from Deluxe.com, Edinburgh, has also gone live on Youtube with a track from Frightened Rabbit as its soundtrack.

The 2012 event featured Scots indie stars Travis and Liverpool rockers The Wombats plus numerous other acts including: mystery special guests Kassidy; The Buzzcocks; The South (formerly The Beautiful South); Beverley Knight; Frightened Rabbit; We Are Scientists; Roddy Frame; Vintage Trouble; The Blackout; Slow Club; Fink; Macfloyd; Willy Mason; The Milk; Sweet Billy Pilgrim; Treacherous Orchestra; Foy Vance; Lanterns On the Lake; Rachel Sermanni; Juan Zelada; Ryan Keen; Bastille; To Kill A King; Dog Is Dead; Mad Dog McRea; Bobok; Federation Of The Disco Pimp; Red Sky July; Nina Nesbitt; The Magnetic North; Bwani Junction; The Draymin; Willie Campbell & The Open Day Rotation; Rae Morris ; Karima Francis; Bombskare; Marc O’Reilly; Gerry Jablonksi & The Electric Band; Man Like Me ;Ellen & The Escapades; Stanley Odd; The Ballachulish Hellhounds; Fatherson; Make Sparks; Zombie Militia; The Dangleberries; Niteworks; Grousebeater Soundsystem; James Mackenzie; Iain McLaughlin & The Outsiders; Whisky River Band; Little Mill of Happiness; KOBI; The Rogues; Torridon; Hoodja; Feis Rois; TMC Youth Fiddlers; Davy & the Hosebeast; and The Red Kites.

Belladrum 2013 takes place in the beautiful Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The independent festival has built a reputation for its eclectic line-ups, its offbeat non-musical entertainments and its all-ages approach. The festival won a VisitScotland Thistle Award in 2009 and is a past winner of the Grassroots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards, the festival industry’s ‘oscars’.