Tartan Heart Belladrum Festival 

Early bird tickets to Bella 2012 sold out in the first hour today (29th September) as Bella fans snapped them up, and moved on to buying full-priced tickets at an unprecedented momentum. And a new Bella video featuring shots of Ed Sheeran at Bella 2011 with Kassidy’s ‘The Traveller’ as its soundtrack has been released watch here to coincide with Bella 2012 tickets going on sale. 

Tickets for the ninth staging of the festival, which takes place 3rd and 4th August 2012, went on sale today.

The tickets cost £95 each (+ booking fee & postage where appropriate). Child 12 & Under tickets and Campervan/Caravan tickets are also be available, and a new ticket for 2012 offering camper/caravans electrical hook-up.

Bella has sold out the last three years and in 2011 the festival sold out months before the event so fans are urged to buy early to avoid disappointment. Problems with ticket scammers in the lead-up to the 2011 event has meant that the bulk of 2012 will be sold as e-tickets which are considerably more difficult to scam.

 “We have been astounded at the pace the tickets are selling for 2012,” said festival promoter Joe Gibbs. “ Perhaps it’s the Indian summer temperatures we’re having which is putting everyone in the mood for next August already!”

The 2011 event featured twin Scots rock legends Texas and Deacon Blue plus: Guillemots; Kassidy; Echo & The Bunnymen; Frank Turner; Newton Faulkner; Ed Sheeran; Anna Calvi; Admiral Fallow; Easy Star All Stars; Eli ‘Paeprboy’ Reed; Teddy Thomson ; Little Comets; Dry The River; MC Xander; Young Rebel Set; Roddy Woomble; 3 Daft Monkeys; Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire; Emile Sande; Ben Howard; The Amphetameanies; Lucy Rose; Wooden Box With A Fistful Of Fivers; The Dangleberries; The Staves; The Webb Sisters; Rachel Sermanni; CW Stoneking and His Primitive Horn Orchestra; The Xcerts; Skerryvore; Saint Saviour Benjamin Francis Leftwich; James Mackenzie & The Aquascene; Cousti; King Charles; Suzette & The Neon Angels; Findlay Napier; Diddums; Torridon; Iain MacLaughlin & The Outsiders; He Slept On 57; Tom Odell; Scooty & The Skyhooks; Stetsonhead; Hoodja; Bronto Skylift; The Raghu Dixit Project; The Horndog Brass Band and the Rooty MaToot Big Band. 

Belladrum 2012 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’.