News: Beacons Festival
Roots Manuva, Factory Floor, Ghostpoet among first acts announced for Yorkshire Dales extravaganza
THE BEACONS Festival is set for launch in 2012 with a first batch of acts announced including Roots Manuva, Ghostpoet and Factory Floor.
The Stool Pigeon is pleased as punch to be involved in this year’s inaugural event, which takes place in beautiful Skipton, gateway to the Yorkshire Dales, on the weekend of August 17-19.
Earlybird tickets for the festival are available as of this morning at £60 a pop (£55 for students); the initial line-up follows below but stay tuned for some 40+ additional announcements to come in March, including Saturday’s headliners.
Roots Manuva
Junior Boys
Ghostpoet
Errors
Factory Floor
Pearson Sound
Cass McCombs
Willy Mason
D/R/U/G/S
Peaking Lights
XXXY
Star Slinger
Submotion Orchestra
Bok Bok
2:54
Jam City
King Krule
Mazes
Still Corners
Stay +
Gross Magic
Bos Angeles
Grass House
This year’s event has been moved to the Funkirk Estate, Carleton (three miles out of Skipton) after serious flooding forced organisers to cancel last year’s bash. The good news is that the new site is reportedly even easier on the eye than the last, and pretty much unfloodable to boot.
Say the organisers: “Last year, due to extreme flooding, Health and Safety Executives made the decision to cancel Beacons Festival. We were devastated to have to cancel your party but were left with no choice. This year, we have moved the site away from any potential flood areas, still in the fantastic setting of Carleton. The new location is even more picturesque than the previous site and we feel it can only enhance people’s experience of what will be a truly amazing festival.”
With a main stage presented in association with yours truly, plus a cinema programme, children’s entertainment, spoken word, theatre and dance bill yet to be announced, this promises to be a fun weekend getting trolleyed in some of the finest surrounds the North has to offer.
Tickets are available to purchase from the Beacons festival website, Seetickets, HMV, Gigantic, Leedstickets.com, Jumbo Records and Crash Records. See you down there!
