Young Fathers and Hector Bizerk to headline Solus Tent at Wickerman Festival

The Wickerman Festival 2014

Friday 25th to Saturday 26th July 2014
Kirkcarswell Farm, Kirkcudbright, Galloway, DG6 4JQ, Scotland MAP
£105 with camping and parking

Daily capacity: 18,000

Last updated: Fri 20th Jun 2014

Wickerman festival which will happen on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th July 2014 have announced the line-up for the Solus Tent and the festival's first Rap Battle.

Young Fathers will headline the tent on Friday, while Saturday’s lead act will be Hector Bizerk. They will be joined by The Amazing Snakeheads, Neon Waltz, LAW , Tuff Love, Cairn String Quartet, Tijuana Bibles, Colonel Mustard and Dijon Five, Atom Tree, Thin Privilege, Algernon Doll, Call to Mind, Fat Suit, Gastric Band, Pronto Mama, Deathcats, Foreign Fox, and Cutty’s Gym.

Badmouth Battles rapper Gasp will pick up the pace by MCing the festival’s first ever rap battle. The event will shine the spotlight on raw talent and organisers hope it will get the crowds bouncing.

Chay Woodman, Wickerman’s Solus Tent booker, said, "The idea behind the Solus Tent since 2006 has always been to keep it diverse, interesting, unique and surprising. Or as Pharoahe Monch said: "If you’re holding up the wall then you’re missing the point."

Musical genres and geography aside, this is a line-up that offers exactly what the Wickerman goers want when it comes to emerging Scottish artists. As for the headliners, getting Young Fathers took four years of waiting but it’s been timed perfectly and Hector Bizerk were always destined to return after their fantastic debut set back in 2012. Two days and twenty slots, it’s going to be a fantastic weekend."

They join the Friday headliner Dizzee Rascal, and Del Amitri who top the bill on Saturday, as well as Alabama 3, The Feeling, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, The Zombies, Big Country, Finding Albert, and Model Aeroplanes.

As always, the weekend festivities will be brought to a spectacular close with the crowd-gathering tradition of burning the 40ft Wickerman statue at midnight on Saturday.

Sited on the 120 acre East Kirkcarswell Farm, near Dundrennan, South West Scotland, in deepest Galloway, the festival welcomes families, and features two main stages, as well as a dance area, acoustic tent, a campsite, trade stalls, alternative area, bars, and food stalls.

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Tickets are priced at £105 for weekend adult tickets and £52.50 for weekend concession tickets, with children aged 12 and under able to attend for free. A campervan/caravan pitch is priced at £45 or £95 with an electric hook up.

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