Doune The Rabbit Hole has announced its first acts to play at this years festival along with its stunning new location. Headlined by cult Liverpool band Clinic, Scottish folk-rock troubadour Alasdair Roberts & Friends and 60s psych heroes July. Glasgow indie legends The Pastels and punk-pop trio PAWS will also join us at Cardross Estate.

Also joining the festival is Orkestra Del Sol who headline an extended Thursday evening bill with Machines In Heaven and Honey & The Herbs.

Friday sees headliner Alasdair Roberts & Friends on the main stage, along with The John Langan Band, Meursault and Haight Ashbury. The intimate Fruitstand stage welcomes Rick Redbeard, Steve Adey and Stanley Brinks and the Baino tent is headlined by PAWS as well as featuring Gallon Drunk, Arbouretum, Galoshins and The Cosmic Dead. A guest stage will be curated by Ten Tracks and features bands including Buriers.

Saturday’s main stage bill features Clinic, The Pastels, The Monochrome Set, Washington Irving and Panda Su among others. The Fruitstand line up includes Robyn Hitchcock, Rozi Plain and The Wellgreen. The Baino welcomes Zun Zun Egui, Bomskare and Stealing Sheep. A guest stage will be curated by Edinburgh’s poetry and music fusion collective Neu Reekie and will feature among others The Sexual Objects and Teen Canteen.

Sunday’s headliner is 60s psych-rock legends July, the main stage also welcomes The Horndog Brass Band, Hidden Masters and Randolph’s Leap among others. The Fruitstand has Rachel Sermanni, The Banana Sessions  Jo Mango and Siobhan Wilson, while The Baino’s line up includes Z’s, Bo Ningen and Three Dimensional Tanx.

The popular Inspire Stage will run all weekend as well as the Low End Dance Stage – with guests including Rebecca Vasmant and The Line Of Best Fit DJs.  Expect a cinema tent, art trail and lots of workshops suitable for the whole family.

“We’re thrilled with our new location,” said Jamie Murray, festival director. “Cardross Estate is on the boundary of Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park. It’s a beautiful site which has experience of hosting outdoor events meaning we can make the production better than ever, suffice to say it's a lovely flat, oak and beech-filled pasture!”

Doune The Rabbit Hole is a small-scale festival where music, art, spoken word performances, workshops and activities for a family audience are the focus.

This year car sharing is being actively encouraged, with parking fees reduced for those with full vehicles, the car share service is provided by goCarShare.

DOUNE THE RABBIT HOLE FESTIVAL August 22-25 2013 The Cardross Estate, Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire, FK8 3JY.  Tickets for the festival are available here from Brown Paper Tickets. Full adult weekend camping tickets cost £78, children under 12 go free and day tickets are available.

LINE UP 

Jabberwocky, Fruitstand & Baino Stages:

THURSDAY

Orkestra Del Sol, Machines In Heaven, The Fast Camels, Garden Of Elks, Honey & The Herbs 

FRIDAY

Alasdair Roberts & Friends, The John Langan Band, PAWS, Rick Redbeard, Gallon Drunk, Arbouretum, Meursault, Haight Ashbury, Steve Adey, Stanley Brinks (ex Herman Dune), The Cosmic Dead, Galoshins, We Are The Physics, Big Ned, No Island, Doug MacGregor, Lori McTear, The Skarsoles, Dave Mac, Kenda Nagasaki 

Guest Stage by Ten Tracks

featuring:

Buriers, Atzi Lipsync, Ryan van Winkle & Reel Festivals, Numbers are Futile, Royal Edinburgh Music 

Low End Dance Stage

featuring:

Rebecca Vasmant, The Line Of Best Fit DJs, Jazz Spastics, Argonaut Sounds, GK Machine, Symbiosis    

Inspire Stage

Workshops

Walkabout Art Trail

Matchbox Cineclub Cinema

Spoken Word 

SATURDAY

Clinic, The Pastels, Bombskare, Zun Zun Egui, Stealing Sheep, The Monochrome Set, Robyn Hitchcock, Washington Irving, Rozi Plain, Panda Su, Mother Ganga, The Wellgreen, Foxgang, Flamingods, Beerjacket, Shambles Miller, Freschard, Helicon, St Max & The Fanatics, Honey & The Herbs, Dead Temple, Tom Snowball, Dbass Collective, Edgar Guerreiro, Mhazz, adullboy  

Guest Stage: Neu Reekie

Featuring:

Jesus, Baby, The Sexual Objects, Teen Canteen 

Low End Dance Tent 

Inspire Stage

Workshops

Spoken Word

Matchbox Cineclub Cinema

Walkabout Art Trail 

SUNDAY

July, Zs, Rachel Sermanni, Bo Ningen, Horndog Brass Band, Hidden Masters, Jo Mango, Randolph's Leap, The Banana Sessions, Cineplexx, Siobhan Wilson, Three Dimensional Tanx, Giblets of Yesterday, Martyazz Ensemble, Dirty Diamond & The Gunslinger, Prog Corner DJs, Bottle of Steven, Ellen McAteer