The 1975 and Nina Nesbitt have been added to the line-up for this year's sold-out Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival. 

Also added is classic reggae act Talisman, plus The Leonard Jones Potential, Elephant Sessions and High Life Fiddle Forte. Camp Stag and Dingus Khan play the goNorth Seedlings Stage as part of the BBC Introducing Programme. Also added to that stage are rising act Miniature Dinosaurs, Birdhead who are hotly tipped by Radio Scotland DJ Vic Galloway, Furry Vengeance and Fat Suit a 15 piece fusion band featuring current and graduate music students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and University of Strathclyde. 

Bella fans also have a chance to star this year in ‘Bella’s Got Talent.’ Ticket-holders have been invited to submit videos of their acts to [email protected] . The best will be invited to perform on the Venus Flytrap Palais stage on Friday 2^nd August and four finalists will go forward to a final in the same venue on the Saturday.

Organisers are looking for all kinds of talent including dance, comedy and novelty acts as well as music. “We know there is a wealth of talent out there in the Bella community. We wanted to give people a chance to show it off,” said festival promoter Joe Gibbs

The UK’s northern-most major festival, and Scotland’s main family festival, Bella, as it is known to its fans, has sold out its 15,800 capacity in advance in record time, over six weeks before the event.

Manchester indie legends James and Glasgow rock prodigies Twin Atlantic have been booked to headline along with an exciting and wide-ranging list of other acts including: The Straits - former members of Dire Straits; the British band Noisettes; bluesman Seasick Steve; stellar garage rockers The Horrors and Bella favourites Alabama 3; King Charles and Scots indie artists Admiral Fallow; Rumours of Fleetwood Mac, indie favourites Pigeon detectives, We Are The Ocean, Baby Strange, Frank Hamilton and Celtic rockers Peatbog Faeries who played the first Belladrum Festival way back in 2004; acoustic-folk-hip hop artist Lucy Spraggan and emerging soul artist Jacob Banks, fresh from touring with Emile Sande; singer-songwriter Andy Burrows, former member of Razorlight ; Scots folk stars Dougie MacLean and Julie Fowlis with folk legend Martin Carthy and singer songwriter ex-Arab Strap Malcolm Middleton; Gavin James, an impressive young singer-songwriter from Ireland and Rick Redbeard of the Phantom Band; pagan pop-folk all-girl trio Stealing Sheep and gentle Geordie jazzy swingy country troupe Shipcote and Friends; It’s A Beautiful Day, created during San Francisco’s 1967 ‘Summer of Love;’ folk rockers Treetop Flyers who won Glastonbury’s 2011 emerging talent competition; C&W exponents My Darling Clementine and bluegrass Southern Tenant Folk Union; Scotland’s much loved Celtic rockers, The Dangleberries; Jericho Hill – three ex-punks and a cowboy playing Johnny Cash; Victorian Trout Conspiracy, great ska from Edinburgh; Scots indie bands Meursault, Washington Irving, PAWS, Withered Hand, The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, Anderson McGinty Webster Ward & Fisher, Shutter, Vasquez, Wooden Box, the Oxides, Ashley & The Cosmonauts, Be Like Pablo and The Lafontaines ; emerging singer-songwriters Tich and Nick Mulvey; Scotland’s most tipped unsigned band, Fatherson; local heroes Scooty and the Skyhooks, Brown Bear and the Bandits from Largs. Skerryvore, Coca Tenorio, FaR, Taghta, Feis Rois, Rhythm and Reel, Mind Funk, Hoodja, Caledonian Ceilidh Trail and Toby Michaels Rolling Damned from the Highlands

Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2013 takes place at Belladrum Estate, Belladrum, By Beauly, Highland between Fri 2nd to Sat 3rd August 2013. .