HADDOWFEST : 11 and 12 October – Edinburgh’s multi-venue festival is back

Edinburgh’s biggest multi-venue one day music festival, Haddowfest,  is back for its fourth year but this time it’s  not on the traditional Sunday and  is now a two day multi-venue  music festival…taking place, as it does this year, on  Friday 11th and Saturday 12th October.

Haddowfest 2013 will see The Rifles and The Holy Ghosts as the main acts on Friday night and Dry the River and We Were Promised Jetpacks as headline acts for the  extended Saturday all dayer, with the usual Haddowfest mix of the known and the more up and coming Scottish artists.

Much, much more to be confirmed  over the next few weeks  (please check new website –  www.haddowfest.co.uk for regular updates) but lineup we can announce so far :
Friday 11 October (at Picture House, Maggie’s Chamber, Sneaky Pete’s, Cabaret Voltaire, Whistlebinkies) :

The Rifles, The Holy Ghosts, The Nature Boys, Hagana, Death Ape Disco, The Rahs, Penny Black, Six Stories High
Starts 6:30 pm (curfew 11pm) – £17. Age restriction : 14+

Saturday 12 October (at Picture House, Liquid Room, Maggie’s Chamber, Sneaky Pete’s, Cabaret Voltaire, Whistlebinkies), in no particular order :

We Were Promised Jetpacks,  Dry the River, Catfish And The Bottlemen,  Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward, Fisher, Hector Bizerk, Brown Bear & The Bandits, OK Social Club, Arches, The Birthday Suit, Young Kato, The Merrylees, The10:04’s, Jon-Paul Palombo, The Litigators, Blindfolds, The Phantoms, Darc, Steve Heron, Casual Sex, Echo Arcadia, The Last Battle, Misty Miller, Donnie Willow , Sunset Abbey, Jack Rowberry

Starts 1 pm – £17. Age restriction : 14+

Last few earlybird tickets on sale now (limited numbers for £17 for each day)  :
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/search.php?tm_link=tm_header_search&language=en-us&keyword=haddowfest

“Everytime we play Scotland the crowd are always 100% behind us, singing every word and enjoying themselves, so we always look forward to coming back.” – The Rifles

“We like rock n roll and we like you” –  The  Holy Ghosts

“Pumped to get back to Edinburgh for Haddowfest ! The city has always treated us so well. We opened for Plan B at the Picturehouse way back in the very early days of Dry the River and have toured all over the country as far as Ullapool,