Levellers, The Damned, and Dreadzone for Bearded Theory

headliners revealed

By Scott Williams | Published: Mon 19th Dec 2011

Levellers

Friday 18th to Sunday 20th May 2012
Kedleston Hall Park, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 5JH, England MAP
£74 - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 5,000
Last updated: Wed 9th May 2012

Levellers, The Damned, and Dreadzone will headline the fifth Bearded Theory which takes place from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th May 2012.


Levellers
Levellers
Headlining Friday will be the Levellers, on Saturday night, Captain Sensible's Gothic Punk legends The Damned, and after Bearded Theory's organisers received the greatest number of complaints last year for not booking Dreadzone for the first time the festival's history. To make amends, this year they return to close the festival on Sunday night.

Richard Bryan from Bearded Theory Festival said, "The Levellers have been rumoured to play Bearded Theory ever since we started and we have decided the time was finally right to get them on. The Damned have been the most requested to play in 2012 by you guys/gals and what better way to celebrate our fifth Birthday than having Dreadzone close the festival on the Sunday night."

Also confirmed is Dr Feelgood who has been added to the Saturday night line-up and Please Y Self will be opening the stage on the Sunday celebrating a whopping 40 years on stage.

The remaining acts will be announced over the next couple of months. The festival will features bands, DJs, poets, and comedians.

The line-up includes System 7, The Ashan Project, Astralasia, Banco De Gaia, Terrorvision, Mad Dog Mcrea, Tarantism, The True Deceivers, Show of Hands, Chumbawamba, Radical Dance Faction (RDF), The Selecter, The Urban Voodoo Machine, Credit to The Nation, The Popes, Random Hand, Kissmet, Imperial Leisure, Ferocious Dog, WitchDoktors, Rasta4Eyes, The Travelling Band, RoughNeck Riot, Tracy Jane Sullivan, Cracked Actors, Boot Hill All Stars, Karl Phillips & The Midnight Ramblers, Pronghorn, Back to the Planet, Los Albertos, and King Pleasure and The Biscuit Boys, and more. The remaining bands will be announced over the next couple of months. The festival will have bands, DJs, and comedians. For the line-up details as available please click here.

Every year Bearded Theory attempts to break the world record for the most amount of people wearing a fancy dress beards in one place and at one time.

Tickets are now on sale with a weekend ticket priced at £74, 13-16 weekend tickets are priced at £40, 6-12 weekend tickets are priced at £25, children aged 5 and under are free and Family Tickets are priced at £190 (2 x adult & 2 x children). All children must be accompanied by a responsible adult. No day tickets will be released for sale for the 2012 festival.

There is also a payment plan available where festival goers can pay for half of their ticket now and pay the rest in March 2012.

There will a charge for car parking of £5. Please note you will be charged £10 at the gate if you do not have a ticket. A campervan ticket is priced at £5.

To buy tickets click here.

For the first time a joint ticket is available for both Bearded Theory, and the Spring Off The Tracks Festival held in Derbyshire on consecutive weekends in 2012 with discounted camping also available to stay during the week between them. A joint entrance ticket to both Derbyshire festivals is priced at £110, and also includes the offer of discounted camping facilities between festivals at the home of Off The Tracks, the Donington Park Farmhouse Hotel, at Castle Donington. The Spring Off The Tracks Festival takes place from Friday 25th until Sunday 27th May 2012 at Park Farmhouse, at Castle Donington - a week after Bearded Theory.

To buy the special combined 2 festival tickets click here.


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