The Beat-Herder Festival 29th June – 1st July 2012 The Ribble Valley, Lancashire

Aeroplane, Fake Blood, Etienne De Crecy, The Parov Stelar Band, The Whip, Rudimental, Girl Unit and more added to The Beat-Herder bill 

They join previously announced Orbital, Lee Scratch Perry, Goldie, James Holden, Pariah, D/R/U/G/S, The Orb Sound System 

The Beat-Herder, a boutique festival that takes place each June in the heart of Lancashire, is pleased to announce some exciting additions to the 2012 bill. Headlining Sunday night will be Belgium’s finest electronic export Aeroplane.  Armed with his concoction of French house and Balearic beats, Vito De Luca aka Aeroplane will be the perfect DJ set to close the festival in style. 

One of the most talked-about DJs of the moment Fake Blood will also be heading to Ribble Valley along with Austrian DJ/producer Parov Stelar who will be making his only UK festival appearance at The Beat-Herder. With his unmistakable sound-mix of Jazz- and Swing samples and electronic music, Stelar has secured his own unique position in the world of music. They join dance-punk quintet The Whip and house/techno legend Etienne De Crecy who has spearheaded French electronica worldwide since bursting onto the scene in 1997. 

London producer and Night Slugs member, Girl Unit will be bringing his dubstep influenced sound to the North, along with hotly tipped drum and bass outfit Rudimental, who will also be heading to Lancashire along with electronic outfit Japanese Popstars. Other additions to the bill include, Krysko, Biggles Wartime Band, Operator 6, Cross Cut Saw, The Banana Sessions, Kitten & The Hip, Slamboree, Yes Sir Boss, Grinny Grandad live, DJ Sneak Beats, Stans Magic Foot, Folkestra, Ivan Campo, The Wonderful Sound of the Cinema Organ, Rumour Has it, Drymbago, Dooks and Kora Fula. 

The Rajazzle Tent will also see some healthy additions including Mancunian impersonators The Total Stone Roses – a nod perhaps to the real deal who will be playing in Manchester over the same weekend – Alt Track, Defenders of Style, Bad Transmission and Revenge of the Psychotronic Man. 

Line- Up

Aeroplane, Barry Ashworth, Biggles Wartime Band, Black Lace, Captain Hotknives, CODA, D/R/U/G/S, Death In Vegas, Delorean Drivers, Discopolis, DJ Sneak Beats, Dooks, Drymbago, Earthdoctor, Eddie Earthquake & The Tremors, Electric Swing Circus, Ellen & The Escapades, Ennio Maccaroni, Etienne De Crecy, Fake Blood, Freestylers (DJ Set), Frisky & Mannish, Girl Unit, Goldie, Grinny Grandad Live, Ivan Campo, Jake Bugg, James Holden, Japenese Popstars Dj Set, Jinx in Dub, Johnny Powell, Kajamor Family, Kate Fear, Keep the Drummer Happy, King Charles, Kitten & The Hip, Kora Fula, Krysko, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Mooqee (Bombstrikes), Mrs Cakehead, Nathan Fake, Nubiyan Twist, Operator 6, Orbital, Pariah, Parov Stelar Live, Phil Smith, Pilooski, Red Tin Dave, Rudimental, Rumour Has It, Shepdog (NICE UP!), Slamboree, Smerins Anti Social Club, Sunday Afternoon Toil Trees session with Mr Scruff & MC Kwasi, The Banana Sessions, The Beat, The Drop, The Orb Sound System, The Other Tribe, The Whip, The Wonderful Sound of the Cinema Organ, Toni Jarvis (Toolroom), Undercover Hippy, United Vibrations, Utah Saints, Yes Sir Boss, 

Entering into its seventh year, The Beat-Herder Festival will be returning to rural Lancashire with its unique formula of live music, locally sourced food & drink and an unpretentious Northern ethos. Based on the simple desire to ‘bring good people together to have a good time in beautiful surroundings’, Beat-Herder is one of the few festivals on the circuit that eschews sponsorship, corporate branding and egos in favour of independent and local stall owners and a refreshingly hand-crafted site, creating a utopia from the outside world for 3 days each summer. 

Over the years The Beat-Herder has grown to become nestled perfectly into the landscape around it. The famous Toil Trees stage, one of the most unique festival locations in the country, is set amongst tall firs, draped with throws and sails with spinning images projected onto the trunks and leaves. 2012 will continue to see new venues added that make the most of the beautiful natural surroundings, which includes over 4000 flowers which are lovingly nurtured from seed. 

The infamous Beat-Herder Working Men’s Club, a mock-up of a working men’s club run by a group of Bette Lynch-esque ladies, will be making a much-welcomed return (expect Bingo, the hilarious ‘Beat-Herder’s Got Talent’, drag queen acts and much more), plus look out for the Raj themed ‘Rajazzle Tent’, which will be hosting unsigned acts ranging from hip hop to Bangra and a selection of top notch comedy acts on the Sunday.

There will be several other unique features to the festival including tasty home-made cakes and pies which can only be found in Lancashire and the intriguingly collectively titled ‘Crazed Inventions’ which include vibrating benches and a network of tunnels that lead you to different zones, ‘The Street’, a thespian orientated experience where one can get a  tattoo, a haircut or a wet shave, browse the book shop and antiques emporium, or play records in the DIY Garage disco and transport yourself  to different areas of the festival via the teleport phone box tunnel system. 

The Beat-Herder Festival is the brainchild of six creative Yorkshire men who were tired of overcrowded and pretentious festivals that were overrun with the same big brands and corporate sponsors. After first establishing in 2006, the festival has grown year on year both in terms of capacity and line up, and yet crucially the atmosphere remains one that is intimate, charming and above all friendly.  

Speculation on the Fancy Dress theme for this year's festival has been rife. Two years ago, the theme was B, last year we went for E, the pattern is getting easy to spot. The Fancy Dress theme for 2012 is brought to you by the letter A. Plenty to go at, Animals, Acrobats, Airliners, Armchairs, ABBA, anyway, you get the idea.

Tickets 

Early Bird Tickets – £85

Stocking Fillers – £90

Full Price – £100

Child Tickets (12 and under) – £17

Infant Tickets (18 months and under) – free

Car Parking – £6

Campervans / Live-in Vehicles – £17