BELLA’S TENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY TICKETS ARE ON SALE!

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BELLA’S TENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY TICKETS ARE ON SALE! Tickets to Bella 2013 – the tenth staging of the festival (2nd and 3rd August) - go on sale at 0900 on Thursday 27th September 2012. Prices have been pegged at 2012 levels, e-ticket booking fees have been reduced and a payment by instalments scheme is being offered. Tickets are only available as e-tickets from skiddle.com for now but printed tickets from the usual agents will be available nearer Christmas. The booking fee on a full weekend e-ticket has been reduced from £7.55 to £6, with other ticket booking fees following suit. The following tickets are available now: Weekend ticket £95* child weekend (12 & under) ticket free campervan/caravan £50* campervan/ caravan with electrical hook-up £130*. Go to www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk to buy tickets and to see terms and conditions of sale. Disabled tickets are issued by a new process for 2013 and are available from 1st November (see below) * Excluding booking fees and postage where applicable. NEW BELLA VIDEO The amazing Tom Welsh of GetDeluxe, Edinburgh, has produced this year’s new video and the link to it is right here. See it. Share it. And shout about it. It’s your party. TICKET DEPOSIT SCHEME – NEW FOR 2013 This year, you can buy your full weekend e-tickets at skiddle.com (not campervan/caravan tickets) in instalments up until 1st June. Here’s how it works: When purchasing a ticket, select the Weekend Deposit Ticket You pay 50% of the total cost of your Adult Weekend Ticket/s plus the total booking fee (£6.25 booking fee per ticket) immediately – Skiddle’s system calculates this for you The final two instalments (half each of the balance) are due by 1700 on 1st June 2013 with no extra booking fees, either online via skiddle.com or by calling 0843 289 3333 . If the total balance is not received by Skiddle by the deadline, you forfeit all the payments you have made and the tickets will be placed back on sale. If you give Skiddle your email and mobile, they will email and text you a week before the deadline if you have a balance out-standing You will receive a receipt for your deposit and balancing payment but you will only receive the full ticket/s once the whole value of the ticket/s has been paid The deposit and balance owed can only be paid by credit/debit card; you do not have to use the same credit/debit card for all transactions You cannot pay the balance at the gate - if you arrive at the gate with only a receipt for a part paid ticket/s, you will not be allowed entry Tickets cannot be added to an order at a later stage - a new order must be made The deposit and associated fees are non-refundable and no claim can be made to recover this money whatsoever These terms and conditions for the TDS are in addition to the standard Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival and Skiddle.com terms and conditions which you agree to at the time of purchase Any enquiries regarding the deposit ticket scheme please emailsupport@skiddle.com DISABLED TICKETS 2013 Disabled tickets will be available from 1st November 2012. In order to control the number of non-disabled persons in the disabled camping and parking area, there are some changes to the methods of buying disabled tickets this year: Tickets for disabled persons, carers and those wishing to park or camp with them can only be bought as e-tickets via Mary Ferguson (see below). All persons using the disabled camping area in a disabled person’s party MUST have a specific ticket for that area which can only be acquired via Mary Ferguson; they should not exceed four in number including the disabled person. Applications to increase this, for instance to allow an extra family member in, will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Only one parking pass for the disabled area per disabled person will be issued; this will only be issued to the disabled person and must be produced to allow entry for a vehicle Tickets to the disabled camping and parking area will be exchanged for wristbands at the event. To buy tickets allowing access to the disabled parking and camping area, as a disabled person, carer, or member of a please make contact with Mary Ferguson at maryferguson72@btinternet.com HOW WAS IT FOR YOU? We’re really thrilled to hear from so many people that Bella 2012 was the best ever for them. In the meantime, if you haven’t done so already, could you complete our post-event survey to help us to continue to improve the event. If you have time and like giving your opinions, please also complete this survey organised by the Association of Independent Festivals who are offering prizes to people who take part FANCY DRESS 2012 Next year’s theme to celebrate Bella’s tenth birthday is ‘Carnival’ – so go get your tickets because the conga starts right here! Congratulations to  everyone who came in fancy dress to Bella 2012 and brought so much to the party and in particular to this year’s fancy dress winners: Mikey Bond Alasdair Stewart Heather Hodge Athol Haig all of whom win free tickets to Bella 2013. CONGRATULATIONS RACHEL Congratulations to Rachel Sermanni for being a recent iTunes single of the week with her work ‘Waltz’. You can listen to it here. Rachel, from Carrbridge, has frequently graced the stages at bella on her rapid trajectory upwards in the music world. We wish her all the best.

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Space Invasion at The Sage Gateshead

This Saturday 22^nd September

 

Generator & Northern Film & Media present…

 

Space Invasion at The Sage Gateshead

 

with

GHOSTPOET

Raj Pannu (Coldcut)

Plus sets from The Tipping Point artists

Lulu James Jethro Fox

And screenings of works by

SBTRKT

   Lanterns on the Lake ft. Novak Collective

Paul Smith (Maximo Park)

Saturday 22nd September

The Sage Gateshead (Hall Two)

Doors open 7.30pmAdvance Tickets £8

Tickets available online thesagegateshead.org 

Ticket office 0191 443 4661

See below for full info x

 

 

 

 

Space Invasion is a special event being filmed for The Space, an experimental £2.5m digital 

arts initiative developed by Arts Council England in partnership with the BBC.

British singer and producer Ghostpoet’s Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album 

‘Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam’ immediately attracted plaudits from press, radio and fans alike. 

Support slots with Metronomy and performances at Glastonbury, Bestival and Latitude followed. 

Ghostpoet will bring his blend of experimental hip-hop, bittersweet lyrics and anthemic soul.

 

The gig also features a unique DJ and VJ experience featuring classic Old Grey Whistle Test performances 

remixed my legendary DJ Raj Pannu (Coldcut/Ninja Tune), 

sets from post-dubstep future star Lulu James and 

spell-binding Liverpool native Jethro Fox for The Tipping Point, 

plus screenings of works featuring SBTRKT, 

Lanterns on the Lake & Novak Collective, and Paul Smith (Maximo Park).

This celebratory evening will be presented by Hal Branson and allows 

the audience to get involved using innovative Screach technology. Download the Screach app here. 

                                                           All collaborations, performances and additional documentary 

                   pieces will be made available at 

http://www.thespace.org

Click here for more information about Space Invasion or contact Joe Frankland.

http://www.generator.org.uk/spaceinvasion

http://www.northernmedia.org

 

Delphic return to Newcastle

Tuesday 23rd October

 

Digital Newcastle presents

 

DELPHIC

plus support from

D/R/U/G/S

 

at DIGITAL Newcastle

Doors 7.30pm

16+ (under 18s to be accompanied)

Advance tickets £13.50+bf

click here to buy online

 

Local outlets : Beatdown - RPM

 

see below for full info x

 

 

 

We are pleased as punch to announce that Delphic

have announced a short run of live dates and they

will be returning to Toon

 

They haven't played Newcastle since they headlined

the Baltic Stage at Evolution in 2010

 

This will be a great chance to catch them in intimate 

surrounds and on Digitals amazing Funktion One Soundsystem

 

DIGITAL Newcastle

Times Square

NE1 1SE

 

http://www.yourfutureisdigital.com/newcastle

Kendal Calling Festival Goers Help Raise Over £15,500 for Charity

This year festival goers at Kendal Calling have helped raise over £15,500 for charity, exceeding the incredible £10,000 raised for charity in 2011. The funds will be split between the festival's chosen charities, many of which have been handpicked by the Kendal Calling team for personal reasons. The charities are Great Ormond Street Hospital, Guide Dogs for the Blind, the David Lynch Foundation, North West Air Ambulance and local charities Hospice at Home, Penrith Lions and TASCA project , which is based in Lowther village where the festival is held.

This year the festival saw the return of Hospice at Home who came stocked up with their stunning sunflowers. Distributing over 2,300 sunflowers, festival goers quickly added to the already magical site art with the bright flowers popping up on tents, children’s carts and all over festival attendee’s attire! Spreading like wildflowers, the sunflowers have become a festival icon and are even incorporated in the Kendal Calling logo!

Another of the fundraising ventures that became a festival favourite was Tim Peak's diner. New to the festival for 2012, the diner was the brain child of The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess and his cyber vision became a reality for the first time at Kendal Calling. Open throughout the weekend the diner was a constant hive of activity, treating customers to impromptu performances from musical legends such as Edwyn Collins, as well as serving up the eagerly anticipated Totes Amazeballs cereal, which was created exclusively for Kendal Calling. The diner raised an almighty £1,500 for the David Lynch Foundation, which is, well, totes amazeballs!

Kendal Calling are blown away by the generosity of their amazing crowd who over the past 3 years have raised a staggering £35,000 for charity, a vast amount of which has been donated to the local communities and has helped thousands of people and numerous worthy charities continue providing their vital services. One of the local charities that Kendal Calling has supported for the past few years is the Penrith Lions. The Penrith Lions are a purely volunteer led organisation that help local families in distress, take senior citizens on outings and to concerts and provide opportunities for young people to better themselves.

Peter Goodwin from the Penrith Lions, says...

Our Motto is 'We Serve', one of the prime objectives of this service is:

'To take an active role in the Civic, Cultural, Social and Moral Welfare of the community we live in'

Kendal Calling’s generous donation enables us to reach these targets and on behalf all organisations, clubs and individuals both young and not so young who will benefit from this generosity. We offer a big 'Thank You' and wish you all every success for the future.

Ben Robinson – Co-founder and co-director of Kendal Calling

"We are honoured to be able to support these hardworking causes that directly benefit the local area. Having grown up in Cumbria our team hold these charities and the people they help out very close to our hearts. We'd like to say a huge thank-you to all the festival-goers who contributed to this year’s fund-raising, you've done us proud!" 

Plans are already underway for the festival in 2013 that will take place on the 26th-28th July. To keep up to date with all Kendal Calling news sign up to the newsletter at www.kendalcalling.com, become a fan on facebook and follow the festival on twitter @KendalCalling.

The festival looks forward to being back in the fields in 2013 and hopes to see the generous Kendal Calling festival goers smash their fundraising target yet again!

Rockness Wins Event Management Grand Prix

Loch Ness based music festival Rockness has won the Event Management Grand Prix at the Scottish Event Awards 2012, while the Event Services Grand Prix was handed to Diamond Event Services.

The awards, which were handed out at the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow last night, also saw the Edinburgh Corn Exchange win Best Large Venue/Hotel while freshnlo Pedal for Scotland 2011 by Cycling Scotland was named the Best Sports Event.

(The Drum)

End of Festival Fireworks

As usual, come the end of the Edinburgh festival I was preparing to watch The Fireworks perched on top of a hill with a good view of the castle, photographing the amazing pyrotechnics from afar. However a couple of days before the event I received an email from the guys at Blipfoto saying that I (and one other Bliper, SlyBaconshots ) had won a photo competition and would receive free passes from the Edinburgh International Festival to the firework display. Not only that but we would be able to visit the castle for a behind the scene look at the firework set up. How cool is that?

Anyway Sunday arrived and no sooner, after meeting Brian the EIF press officer at the Hub, we were stood on the Castle ramparts surrounded by tons of high explosives, which was slightly unnerving to say the least !  We were introduced to Keith Webb, Pyrotechnics Designer at Pyrovision and given a guide tour of the site. For added safety we had to remove any spare camera batteries we had and leave them in a safe place as they do not mix well with electronic fuses. 

The amount of fireworks on the site was just hair raising with huge crates of mortars and wires running in every direction. I can now understand why the cost of these displays is so high especially when you see the amount of work that's involved. Pyrovision had crew of 15 working flat out for a week to put the site together and before that months of planning down to the finest detail: the guys at Pyrovision do an amazing job.

Sadly the only thing we did not see was a big red FIRE! button or one of those cartoon plungers that sends it all up. Apparently it's done with a mouse click these days.

You do get a great view from the Castle - I'm sure they had tourists in mind when it was built

A large fan ready to blow

Words about safety and things that go bang in the night

Just a few more fireworks

Fellow Bliper Graeme (SlyBaconshots) getting in a few shots

A tourist unaware of the rather large amount of explosives laying around.

Many thanks to Blipfoto, the EIF press office and the guys at Pyrovision for showing us around and letting us take lots of shots of their firework setup.

The fireworks
The atmosphere beforehand was amazing as people filed in to Princes Street Gardens to get the best view. It was a great night for it as the weather was truly kind so it was picnics as far as the eye could see. There was even a wedding party on the go. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra provided the music with a Shakespearean theme hence the music of William Walton and his Orb and Sceptre piece. The William Walton material continued in the programme from the film Henry V. Other Shakespearian faves included Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet featuring the Dance of the Knights.

So my fellow Bliper Graeme (SlyBaconshots) and I took our places along with all the press photographers and film crews. We were feeling slightly intimidated as we where the only Nikon shooters in the media group. I was using a D4 with 14-24mm F2.8 which was probably a bit too fast for fireworks. I also had my beaten up old D700 with a 24-70mm F2.8 for hand held stuff. I even had a small Nikon 1 V1 lashed to a railing for video.

Well, no sooner had it all kicked off than it was over - with some frantic shooting inbetween: 45mins never went so fast. So here are some of the images.

The Happy Couple