Shaun Ryder to join Bez at The Wickerman Festival's summer of love

The Wickerman Festival held at East Kirkcarswell Farm, nr Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway in the South West of Scotland on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th July have announced that Shaun Ryder will perform a DJ set alongside his old friend Bez as part of the Hacienda Tour.

Shaun Ryder is best known for his front-man role in the Happy Mondays and Black Grape, and more recently his collaboration with Damon Albarn's band Gorillaz.

His home city of Manchester housed a pioneering super club - the Hacienda which was open for a fifteen year spell from 1982 and was home to acts from both the rave and Madchester era and firmly at the forefront of 1990's second 'Summer Of Love'.

The Hacienda Tour aims to recreate those years by hosting DJ sets in a themed environment. Festival goers at Wickerman can enjoy sets by New Order's Peter Hook, Bez of Happy Mondays and Black Grape fame and Graeme Park.

They pair join a line-up which will have over 100 acts. The headliners so far confirmed are Gary Numan playing on Friday, and KT Tunstall playing Saturday. They will be joined by artists including Dub Pistols featuring Terry Hall, Hugh Cornwell, Dodgy, x-Press 2, Digitalis, The Cuban Brothers, Sham 69, Damien Dempsey, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, De Rosa, Fangs, Zoey Van Goey, Broken Records, Beatnic Prestige, Alabama 3, Sonic Boom Six, Tim Sheridan, The Ads, Action Group, Jesus H. Foxx, Twisted Nerve, The Eddies, and Neville Staple, with Dream Machine playing a post midnight closing slot. For the line-up details to date please see here.

Tickets are on sale here, priced at £75 for the two days, or £50 for just the Saturday, and campervans costing an extra £20. Children aged 12 years and under are free.

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