A new Scottish festival is stepping up in place of The Outsider, which was recently cancelled due to the economic downturn.
The Insider takes place on the same weekend, from June 26 to 29, featuring a line-up of carefully selected Scottish talent including superb post-folk headliners Lau.
The small boutique festival is set in the garden and woodlands of Inshriach House near Aviemore, and is limited to 500 weekend tickets at a paltry £40 each, a fraction of what is charged for other three-day events with camping.
Organisers have promised to present attendees with “a mouth-watering banquet of home-grown music, spectacular theatrics, the finest local food and a full Scottish bar”.
One of the organisers, Walter Micklethwait, said: “With the plug being pulled on so many of the big festivals this year, we realised that what people really want is an intimate, friendly and fairly priced party where the emphasis was on great music.”
“The cancelling of the Outsider provided a perfect opportunity to offer something a bit different, a bit special!”
The people behind The Insider - Walter, Gordon Reilly, Ross and Polly Cameron - were initially set to run the Backwoods bar and stage at the Outsider, both of which had been already built.
As they had already struck deals with brewers and distilleries, been fishing around the musical scene and invited lots of friends they immediately decided to put on an event in the garden and woods of Inshriach, a rolling wooded 200 acre-estate on the banks of the Spey, four miles from the original festival site.
Inshriach House, which belongs to Walter, is an Edwardian country house and the house itself is the backdrop to the party, the main stage on the lawns, with the bar running down the veranda. Part of the garden is also set aside for what might be the finest food you will ever find at a festival, local, seasonal, restaurant quality and at sensible prices.
Gordon started on the line-up and the Insider now has some of the finest acts on the circuit, Lau, Bombskare, Charlie McKerron, The Injuns, Woodenbox and The Banana Sessions to name just a few, with some late-night DJ surprises lurking in the woods. And they added a day so it all starts on Friday afternoon.
Other bands performing include Mitchell Museum, Isoceles, Over the Wall and Sorren Mclean, and there’s also the Ministry of Burlesque and The Imagination Workshop for the kids.
To advertise The Insider a very distinctive promo video was created, which features Merv Adams on the drums and Gordon Reilly in the tweeds, aka Captain Bakewell. It was filmed around Inshriach - well, apart from the tropical underwater parts and a couple of the other more outlandish elements - and was put together in a week by Ali McWalter, just for fun.
You can visit the official website to buy tickets. The full line-up includes:
- Lau,
- Bombskare,
- Isoceles,
- Charlie McKerron,
- John Langan Band,
- The Banana Sessions,
- Washington Irving,
- Sparrow and the Workshop,
- Ross Clark (and the Scarfs Go Missing),
- The Injuns present: Dead Man's Waltz,
- Robin Adams,
- Claes Cem,
- Storm of '83,
- Mitchell Museum,
- Woodenbox,
- Tallulah Rendall,
- Will Cookson,
- Over the Wall,
- Laki Mera,
- Reaz,
- Sorren Mclean,
- Heads on Sticks,
- The Black Hand Gang
DJs
- ProVinylist Karim, Small Tall & Bakewell, Johnny Whoop
