East India Youth and Happy Meals Added to Electric Fields Line-Up
They will be joining:
King Creosote // The Phantom Band // Blanck Mass // Vessels // PAWS // Hector Bizerk // Golden Teacher //Miaoux Miaoux // Randolphs Leap // Catholic Action // Birdhead // Finding Albert // Fat Goth // United Fruit // Outblinker // Pronto Mama // Jonnie Common // Monogram // Root System // Esperanza // Man of Moon // Crash Club // Numbers are Futile // Kill The Waves // The Victorian Trout Conspiracy
+ more to come…
Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, DG3 4AQ
Saturday 29th August 2015
Tickets: From £30 (available via www.electricfieldsfestival.com)
Electric Fields is proud to announce two more additions for the line-up of this years festival. Nominated for the 2014 Mercury Music Prize for debut album “Total Strife Forever”, East India Youth brings his phenomenal live set-up to EF.
Originally from Dumfries and Galloway, now based out of Glasgow and Orkney, Happy Meals have been busy turning heads over the past few months. Their mesmeric debut album Apéro earning them a spot on this years SAY Award shortlist, progressing further than the likes of Idlewild, Mogwai and The Twilight Sad in the vote.
Both are playing The Skinny magazine’s stage, joining the likes of United Fruit, Vessels and Blanck Mass and kick starting the magazines 10th birthday celebrations.
Festival Director, Alex Roberts, said “Bringing in the fantastic East India Youth and Happy Meals pretty much wraps up our line-up, bar a couple of late announcements, and we couldn’t be happier to be bringing two of the most exciting names in UK music to play. The line-up really is so exciting, August can’t come round quick enough.”.
Festival Partners:
We are delighted to welcome one of Scotland’s best loved brewers, Innis & Gunn, on board as beer sponsors, and we’re also delighted to say bar prices will be the same as 2014 at £3.50 per drink. Innis & Gunn said; ”We’re excited to be sponsoring Electric Fields. Up-and-coming music talent is extremely important to us, therefore to support a Scottish festival makes us very proud.”
Media Partners come in the form of Scotland’s largest online music platform; Tenement TV, indie, rock and alternative radio station Xfm and Scotland’s culture bible, The Skinny, who will be curating their very own stage.
XFM Scotland’s Drivetime presenter Jim Gellatly said: “The inaugural Electric Fields last year was an amazing experience in a brilliant setting. It was fantastic to see so many emerging Scottish bands fill a festival bill. The booking policy is second to none, and it’s the perfect fit for XFM in supporting the incredible new music coming out of Scotland at the moment. I can’t wait to return to Drumlanrig Castle!”
2014 Press Quotes
“Honestly what a day, line up was strong, the two stages thing worked a treat, the weather, the people, the setting… AH IT WAS AWESOME!” – Ally McCrae (Former BBC Radio 1 Presenter)
“For a maiden festival, Electric Fields gets quite a few things right, location being not least of all. Set on the grounds of the stately Drumlanrig Castle, proceedings on the endearingly diminutive site centre around an ingenious twin main stage setup whose bills perfectly alternate allowing for a continuous stream of quality Scottish bands.” – **** The Skinny
“Given how insanely strong the evening line-up was, it made for a relentless cavalcade of highlights” – The Pop Cop
“We expect great things” – The Scotsman
