Doune The Rabbit Hole

24th-26th August 2012

   May 15

Red Kite Yurts

By Lucy

Red Kite Yurts provide Yurt accommodation INCLUDING FESTIVAL TICKET from just £62.50 per person!

We’re pleased to be working with Red Kite Yurts again at this year’s festival. Camp in fine style with one of their hand-crafted camping yurts available at special prices which INCLUDE A WEEKEND FESTIVAL TICKET:

2 person – £200 (£100 per person) (8ft Yurt)

3 person – £300 (£100pp) (12ft Yurt)

4 person – £375 (£93.50pp) (15ft Yurt)

5 person – £400 (£80pp) (16ft Yurt)

6 person – £450 (£75pp) (16ft Yurt)

7 person – £500 (£71.50pp) (18ft Yurt)

8 person – £550 (£69pp) (18ft Yurt)

9 person – £600 (£67pp) (20ft Yurt)

10 person – £650 (£65pp) (20ft Yurt) 

11 person -£ 700 (£63.50pp) (20ft Yurt)

12 person – £750 (£62.50pp) (20ft Yurt)

This is a great deal as the 12 person yurt priced £750 works out at just £62.50 per person for the whole weekend!
Yurts come with ground sheet and wall to wall carpet but you need to bring your own beds, sleeping bags teddy bears etc. Red Kite Yurts will be putting them up on Thursday and taking down on Monday lunch time. Their luxurious Wedding Yurt is also available – please contact Red Kite Yurts for more details.
To organise your festival yurt, please contact Red Kite Yurts directly by email: nathan@redkiteyurts.com.
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   May 06

Headliner Announcement!

By Lucy

King Creosote, Kid Canaveral, Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, Pram and Josie Long and Hidden Orchestra added to the bill!

 

We are thrilled to announce that Fife’s finest musical monarch, King Creosote will headline the main stage at Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival on Saturday August 25th and his Fence Records cohorts Kid Canaveral will join the bill on Sunday August 26th.

Other acts joining us at Duncarron Fort include otherworldly indie experimentalists Pram, anti-folk hero Jeffrey Lewis &The Junkyard and indie-loving stand up comic Josie Long, who will perform on the spoken word stage.

Sunday takes an musically adventurous turn with Edinburgh’s Hidden Orchestra, who blend jazz, hip-hop and classical styles topping the main stage bill. There will also be the colourfully out-there stylings of Orchestra of Spheres and the first performance of a new collaborative music project called The Brotherhood of The Blue Ship.

Check out the full line up …and get your tickets here – see you at the fort!

Meanwhile look out for swans…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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   Apr 25

The Lovely Eggs Play Glasgow & Edinburgh

By Lucy

We are eggs-treamly happy to announce that The Lovely Eggs, Lancaster’s DIY duo are on a UK tour… and they’re stopping off to play shows for us here in Scotland.

On May 9th they play Nice ‘n’ Sleazy with Hector Collectors and End of Neil – join the Facebook event if that’s your thing. You can get tickets from Brown Paper Tickets for £5 or for £7 on the door.

And on May 10th they play The Third Door in Edinburgh. Tickets are available here for £5… more acts to be announced.

The band will also be joining us at the festival on Friday August 24th…

 

 

They have new single, “Food” out on May 14th on Cherryade Records.

The Lovely Eggs are “a rallying point for anyone that sees life for what it is. A mess. A wonderful, car crash of experiences, greeting each new chance with a cheeky grin, a sneer and a big f*** you to the pricks. With new single ‘Food’ The Lovely Eggs deliver yet more of the lunacy that makes them so compelling, fun and essential, tuck in.”

Just the kind of spirit that we can to see at Doune The Rabbit Hole! What are you waiting for? Go and get your tickets!

 

 

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   Apr 02

Ted Milton Gig & Volunteers Wanted!

By Lucy

Coming soon… : DTRH favourite Ted Milton returns for a gig in Glasgow, Saturday 14th April at Nice’n'Sleazy.

Avant garde sax player Ted Milton  returns to Scotland for a Festival preview gig at Glasgow’s Nice’n'Sleazy with other members of the festival line up – Hidden Masters and Galoshins on 14th April.

Ted will be performing his latest project Odes, a collaboration with laptop-musician Sam Britton which mixes improvisation, poetry and bleeps!

It promises to be a unique night and tickets are just £5 on the door or from Brown Paper Tickets in advance.

In other news, we are looking for capable people to help with festival organisation and operations.

If you’re interested in becoming a festival volunteer, you should send an email to Claire@dounetherabbithole.co.uk, with some details of your skills and we will send you the necessary details to apply.

Tell your friends!

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   Mar 19

Festival Taster Gigs Begin With Honey & The Herbs

By Lucy

Honey & The Herbs, Helicon and Behold The Old Bear kick off a programme of gigs in Glasgow and beyond to offer a taster of the music that will be on offer at this year’s Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival.

Taking place at Stereo, Glasgow on March 23rd 2012,  Honey & The Herbs play their trademark psych-lounge as a taster for the kind of things you can expect at the festival this year. They will be joined by experimentalists Helicon and new indie noisemakers Behold The Old Bear. Tickets are £5 on the door.

Even better – there will be a raffle for a chance to win a pair of festival tickets at the show – so all the more reason to come down and get into the Doune The Rabbit Hole spirit early!

This is the first of a programme of gigs that the festival has organised between now and August. Also coming up show from bands including The Cosmic Dead, The Lovely Eggs and The Plimptons.  The next show will be 14th April at Nice n’ Sleazy, Glasgow and will feature Ted Milton (BLURT) & Sam Britton performing ‘Odes’, Hidden Masters and Galoshins.

Have a wee listen to Honey & The Herbs… see you at Stereo!

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   Mar 07

JD Twitch, Withered Hand & The Lovely Eggs Added!

By Lucy

We’re delighted to announce more acts for Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival!

The Glasgow underground clubbing legend Optimo comes to the festival in the form of DJ, remixer, producer and label owner JD Twitch, who will play a set on Friday night.

Joining The Phantom Band, Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells and more on Friday we also welcome The Lovely Eggs from Lancaster, who embody the DIY ethos of the festival.

Saturday sees Withered Hand; fresh from a sell out gig in Edinburgh and the release of the first Fence Records Chart Ruse EP, Dan Wilson brings his self-depreciating but sharp lo-fi songs to Duncarron. Saturday also sees the return of improvisers Blurt where Ted Milton will be joined by Fur Hood. Also the poetry-music-film fusion of Neu! Reekie!

Weekend camping tickets are available now priced £78 if purchased before April 1st, £88 there after.

 

 

 

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   Mar 05

Ticket Deposit Deal…and more line up announcements

By Lucy

You can now split the cost of your tickets by using PayPal to pay in advance.
Deposit deal ticket link
Now you have the chance to split your payments in two or more instead of taking a full £78 hit all at once. All you need to do is buy a deposit ticket from here and then pay the remaining £38 when you like before August 1st. Please make sure you pay up before August 1st, otherwise you’ll not be able to join us.

If you need more information on the deal then please email jamie@dounetherabbithole.co.uk.

In other news, we’re happy to confirm that we have added these acts to the line-up: JD Twitch (Optimo) – The Lovely Eggs – The Good Daze – Blurt W/Fur Hood - An hour with Neu! Reekie! – Hidden Masters – Bambooman  - Robin Adams – North American War…still more to be added!

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   Feb 23

Artworks Wanted!

By Lucy

Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival is looking for artworks and sculptures to decorate the new site at Duncarron Fort.

We’re looking for work to enhance the visual enjoyment of the site – a recreation of a medieval fort set in sheltered woodland and open grassland in the beautiful Carron Valley.

More than just toadstools needed...

There is a winding path up to the fort and we’d like to create an art treasure trail to make the site magical for kids and adults alike.

Artists should contact Dana. With the following:

  • a description of your sculpture / installation idea,
  • preparatory images or drawings in JPG or PDF format,
  • the scale and measurements of your proposed work,
  • any technical or building requirements.

Artists whose work is chosen for the Festival will:

  • receive a pair of weekend tickets to the Festival
  • have their work published in the Festival program
  • have an opportunity to exhibit and sell work at the Festival.

The deadline for submissions is May 1st 2012.

It may be possible to arrange a site visit for those interested in providing work for the festival. The site will be illuminated at night and work will be exhibited outdoors, although extremely limited space will be available indoors. Get in touch now with your ideas!

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   Feb 03

New Location & Line Up News!

By Lucy

We are pleased to announce our new location and the first bands to be confirmed on this year’s line up!

This year Doune The Rabbit Hole festival will move to a new site at Duncarron Fort in the Duncarron Valley. Duncarron Fort is being constructed by the Clanranald Trust as a full-scale replica of a medieval fortified village. It is currently under construction but by August it will be in perfect shape to host a music festival. Set in the beautiful Carron Valley, only half an hours drive from Glasgow, 45 minutes from Edinburgh and within shuttle-able distance of Croy Railway station. We think you’ll find our new home to be more magical, more mystical and certainly more medieval than anything we could have imagined when we began to look for our new home!

Duncarron Fort

Duncarron Fort

We are now proud to announce that our musical line-up so far includes: the cult Chemikal Underground phantasmagorical psych-rock of The Phantom Band; the uncompromising poetry and inimitable jazz of Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells; this year’s SXSW alt-country contenders Three Blind Wolves and multinational folk rockers Sparrow & The Workshop to name but a few.

There are still more headliners to be announced for the whole weekend but so far the list of bands playing at the festival is shaping up to be even more of a musical treat than last year.

The Phantom Band

The Phantom Band

The list of acts confirmed so far includes: The Phantom Band, Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells, Three Blind Wolves, Sparrow & The Workshop, Laura J Martin, David Barbarossa, Sophie Ramsay, Holy Mountain, The Cosmic Dead, The Rudiments, Les BOF!, The John Knox Sex Club, Driver Drive Faster, Olympic Swimmers, Jouis, Adam Stearns & The Glass Animals, Helicon, Kochka, The Second Hand Marching Band, The Mezzanine Allstars, GK Machine, The Plimptons, Ceylan Hay, The Forgotten Works, Loch Awe, Pumajaw, Rail Fan, Galoshin, Dead Saints Bones, and many more…

Also New for 2012 – Doune The Rabbit Hole welcomes the Tenement TV Stage (curated by Tenement TV, Glasgow’s live performance video podcast http://www.tenementtv.com/) featuring: Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher, The Imagineers, Davey Horne & The Golden Pipes, The River 68s, The Stagger Rats, Esperanza, Selective Service, The Meatmen and more!

Tickets are available now at the bargain price of £48-£68 but will be rising on 1st March by £10. You can buy them from Brown Paper Tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/217166

See you at the fort!

 

 

 

 

 

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   Jan 24

New Site

By jamie

Welcome to our new Doune the Rabbit Hole site. This is being updated and worked on literally as we speak and so hopefully we’ll have something more sleek and professional-looking coming your way very, very soon! In the meantime the best place to catch us for news, updates and general fun is The Doune the Rabbit Hole Facebook Page.

 

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