Connect and Belladrum are taking a break this year, you’re not enthralled by the trek down to Bestival to take your chance on rivers of mud, and well Glastonbury’s just not been the same since you were sneaking under the fence as a teenager.
If you’ve already not heard about The Garden Party at Kelburn Castle, we’re here to let you into a little secret. Having played host to parties organised by the pan-continental art-clash known as The Graffiti Project since 2006, the Garden Party enthuses a unique spirit of cross-culturalism. Back in 2006, Sao Paolo’s most notorious guerilla street artists flew to Scotland and painted the ancient Kelburn Castle, just outside Glasgow, at the behest of the owners.
The Garden Party aims to fill a gap in the UK boutique festival market by programming a weekend of music that brings together diverse strands of the local progressive music scene and joins them with hand-picked talent of an international calibre. They’ve no qualms about pitching alt.folk bands alongside dubstep DJs, or cutting edge live electronica with Balkan/gypsy or folk acts and throwing a samba school in with a reggae soundsystem.
The following show is a selection of tracks from the artists we’re most excited about seeing during the festival.
Special Ticket Offer
The Garden Party takes pleace at Kelburn Castle, near Largs on the West Coast of Scotland on 20th and 21st June. For more info and tickets go to:
Radio Magnetic newsletter subscribers are entitled to £10 off the listed weekend ticket price, which is only £69 pounds to begin with. If you’re not already a subscriber, sign up. You will then be sent a coupon code which you use for buying tickets.
Tracklist
- Mungos Hi Fi – Joints and Jams ft. Soom T
- James Yorkston – Woozy with Cider
- Martyn – Vancouver Numbers
- The Aliens – Disco Blood Bath Effect
- Kazoo Funk Orchestra – Disco Disco Discoteque
- Found – Fidelity Break
- The Bays – Excerpt from Birmingham show
- Belleruche – Idea Three
- Bonobo – Flutter
- Jon Hopkins – Light Through (Tom Middleton remix)
love it!!!!!!!!!
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