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Here’s a link to a pdf on Scribd of the provisional Co-op Verb Garden programme for this year’s Tartan Heart/Belladrum Festival. http://www.scribd.com/doc/101675290/Programme-v3-0-Publicity I’m performing both a version of The Fairly Good Show (mostly songs and a bit of poetry) and, with Jon Beach from Fiddlers in Drumnadrochit, one of the great Scottish whisky bars, the…
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Two days working in Inverness, staying at the eccentrically excellent Anderson in Fortrose, and reacquainting myself with Dolphinsludge, Queen of the Highland Fleshpots. The quilted shooting jacket, with its bandolier of shotgun cartridges, is for age eight or thereabouts. Hidden corners of Inverness still display aspects of the landed gentryism lurking around the Highlands. But…
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It must have been sweet revenge for Joe Gibbs and Rob Hicks to see Belladrum sell out this year, and, under mostly sunny skies, deliver the best atmosphere of any festival I’ve been to. Both the Outsider and connect Festivals owed – being charitable – a great deal to the Belladrum inspiration, yet both were…
