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Lee Scratch Perry & Death In Vegas for Beatherder

Mr Scruff & MC Kwasi, Goldie, The Orb, The Beat, D/R/U/G/S, & more

By Scott Williams | Published:

Beat-Herder 2012 - Lee Scratch Perry
Photo credit: Richard Potter


Death In Vegas, Lee Scratch Perry, Mr Scruff & MC Kwasi, and Goldie top the first wave of acts for the seventh Beatherder Festival joining Orbital at Lancashire festival.

Lee Scratch Perry
Also announced today are Freestylers DJs, James Holden, The Orb Sound System, Nathan Fake, Jake Bugg, Pariah, King Charles, Ellen and the Escapades, The Beat, Utah Saints, D/R/U/G/S, Pilooski, Barry Ashworth, The Lancashire Hotpots, Sicknote, Dogshow, Coda, Shepdog, Discopolis, Frisky & Mannish, Mooqee, Smerins Anti-Social Club, Toni Jarvis, The Drop, The Other Tribe, The Undercover Hippy, United Vibrations, and Black Lace.

The previously announced Orbital will headline. Expect there to be eleven stages or musical areas these will include The Beat-Herder Stage, Toiltrees the dance area, Stumblefunk Soundsystem, Trailer Trash, The Bushrocker Family HiFi, The Beat-Herder & District Working Men's Social Club, and The Lazy Meadow & Smoky Tentacles Shisha Lounge.

The three day Beatherder festival takes place in Gisburn, Lancashire, with the dates for this the seventh year confirmed as Friday 29th June until Sunday 1st July 2012. The festival is independently funded and has no involvement in corporate organisations, nor does it receive any sponsorship.

Tickets are priced at £100. A child ticket for those aged 12 and under are priced at £17, with infants (18 months and under) able to attend free. A car parking ticket is priced at £6. A campervans/live-in vehicle pass is priced at £17 - festival goers are asked to buy these in advance to reduce the queues seen in 2011.

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