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www.supergrass.com |
| Indie icons Supergrass are a seasoned festival band who will be headlining Wizard’s Friday night main stage.
The band have been together for more than ten years and have seven albums under their collectively cool belts. Three of those albums are platinum sellers and their current record, out on March 24th titled Diamond Hoo Ha, is receiving rave reviews in the music press.
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www.officialdamned.com |
| Most folk will need no introduction to The Damned. They are the pioneers of punk who have thirty years of legend making in their wake. The indestructible and irrepressible Captain Sensible and singer David Vanian promise to light up Wizard's festival sky with an explosive show. A definite once in a lifetime experience. |
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www.alabama3.co.uk |
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Regarded as the best live band in the country Wizard is over many moons to announce Alabama 3 as the Saturday night headliner for our Voodoo stage.
The band have danced, swaggered and strutted their way across every major festival stage in the UK and this year it is North East Scotland’s turn to be partied up and shaken down by the marvellously entertaining Brixton Town Posse. Simply unmissable.
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www.dreadzone.com |
| Festival supremos Dreadzone will be bringing their own unique mixture of human rhythms, dub bass colliding with dance beats, live guitar and bubbling electronics, all united by energetic MCing and sweet reggae vocals an absolute must for the dance loving hip swaying festival goer. |
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www.proudmary.co.uk |
| Firm Wizard favourites Proud Mary are legendary country/rock/blues music specialists. They will be performing exclusively at the New Deer showground in what can only be described as a must see performance by the cult band. |
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www.thecinematics.com |
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Glasgow based quartet The Cinematics will be performing their infectious indie beat-box driven tunes which have earned them great respect as live performers. Exciting, fresh and up for it The Cinematics will be bringing another dimension to an already incredibly diverse line-up.
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| Chris Helme |
www.myspace.com/chrishelmesolo |
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Chris Helme was formerly the frontman for The Seahorses which was John Squire’s project following The Stone Roses demise. However more recently Helme has been making his mark as a solo performer and with his band The Yards. A hugely talented singer/songwriter this will be a rare and intimate appearance which is one of the highlights on Wizard’s bill.
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| McCusker/Drever/Woomble |
www.roddywoomble.co.uk |
| Three pristine Scottish musicians can be found in the trio that is McCusker/Drever and Woomble. McCusker is the highly regarded traditional musician who is rated throughout folk-land as one of the most naturally gifted multi instrumentalists of his generation. Folk hero and Lau band member Kris Drever is a singer songwriter of the highest calibre who has carried folk music into the 21st century. The superband trio is completed by Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble. This exclusive appearance at Wizard is one of the biggest attractions on our bill so far, a Scottish supergroup in the making if ever we saw one. |
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| Flood Of Red |
www.myspace.com/floodofred |
| Emo screamo band Flood Of Red have also been confirmed to make their very loud presence felt!! The Glasgow based band have a massive following in Aberdeen, the UK and Europe and are currently on a sell out tour of Scandinavia. Miss them at your peril......agh............! |
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| Parka |
www.myspace.com/parkamusic |
| Glaswegian quartet Parka’s star is in the ascension with the release of their debut album on May 6 and a whole host of festival appearances planned for the summer. Their flamboyant take on rock and roll riffs and over the top live shows are putting this band right to the top of everyone’s list as THE band to watch over the coming months. |
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| The Amigos |
www.theamigos.org |
| Latino dub movers and shakers The Amigos are on board for a performance at this year’s event. Renowned as dynamite live performers the band will be letting sparks fly when they join the bill for a rock and roll circus of an evening on Wizard’s main stage on the Saturday night. |
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| Tom Morton |
http://beatcroft.blogspot.com/ |
| The well known Scottish broadcaster, writer and musician Tom Morton will be joining the Festival bandwagon as our compere for the event hosting both the Voodoo Main Stage and the Evening Express’s Freedom Stage. Tom, who currently presents one of BBC Radio Scotland’s most popular daytime music shows, The Tom Morton Show, will also be performing a set of his own original material on one of the stages at the festival. |
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| Mark Morriss |
www.bluetones.info/ |
| We are very lucky to have Bluetones frontman and singer/songwriter Mark Morriss performing at the festival in what will be an exclusive Scottish event for the enigmatic and energetic leader of the Bluetones band. |
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| The Kazoo Funk Orchestra |
www.kazoofunkorchestra.com/ |
| The Kazoo Funk Orchestra is a menagerie of musicians who consider themselves to be as cool as jazz but as dance worthy as hip-hop and funk. The orchestra will be appearing in its current incarnation which has characters such as big beard and little beard. The band will be holding a good old musical free for all on Wizard’s Banshee stage over the weekend of the festival. |
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| DJ Andy Duguid |
www.myspace.com/andyduguid |
| DJ Andy Duguid is an up and coming techno trance DJ from Aberdeen who has been picked up and thrown into orbit by his recent fast ascent into the lofty attic spaces of techno club heaven. He has played Ibiza, Bangkok and Belgium but this summer he will be making an appearance at the Wizard Festival. |
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| Peatbog Faeries |
www.peatbogfaeries.com |
| Based on the Isle of Skye, the Peatbog Faeries have been described as ‘the future of Celtic dance music’. They incorporate many influences which take them from traditional jigs and reels through jazz, hip hop, reggae and more. This is high octane Celtic dance music so be prepared to dance! |
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| MacFloyd |
www.macfloyd.co.uk |
| Scottish astral rockers MacFloyd will be bringing a massive light show along to accompany their note perfect renditions of Pink Floyd’s greatest music. Known and respected throughout the UK for their genius musicianship this Scottish eight piece will be complete with backing singers and a stunning light show to enhance the “Floyd” experience. |
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| The Haze |
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| The Haze have been making waves for some time now on the indie music scene but this looks like it could be their year for a breakthrough. The Glasgow based five piece have supported some great acts like Idlewild, The Cult and The Hold Steady. The Haze are ones to watch out for this year. |
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| Honey Ryder |
www.honeyryder.co.uk |
| Honey Ryder will be taking to the stage in a first ever North East performance for the London based folk rock duo. Their music just oozes that oozes confidence so they were booked on the spot for what promises to be a rockin and rollin live performance. |
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| Kyte |
www.myspace.com/kyteband |
| Kyte have been described as “nu-gaze”…which means they make beautiful ethereal music that reaches the soul very quickly. Cult music magazine NME said they are: “Unashamedly epic and unrelentingly beautiful" and that they will “steal your heart as soon as look at you”. |
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| Edgar Prais |
www.myspace.com/edgarprais |
| Aberdeen band Edgar Prais have recently been tripping the light fantastic with a recent support slot for the Kaiser Chiefs during their now legendary warm up shows earlier this summer in the Highlands. Wizard organisers hope that this slot at the festival will help them on the way to a fantastic year ahead. |
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| Xcerts |
www.myspace.com/thexcerts |
| The Xcerts will be bringing their unique thrash guitar sound to Wizard following on from the performance of their lives at last year’s festival. Originally from Aberdeen, but based in Exeter, The XCerts are a pulsating mass of energy that will be taking the Wizard audience by the scruff of the neck and shaking them all about. It is safe to say that this band will be putting on a staggeringly good live show. |
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| Celtallica |
http://celtallica.com/index.html |
| Celtallica are just what it says on the tin, an eleven piece celtic funk rock band that have been given the honour of opening the festival’s main stage, The Voodoo Stage, on Friday August 22. The band is a collaboration of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire’s finest musicians. Consisting of, among other things, electric guitars, accordions, bagpipes and fiddles they promise to have the main arena rocking well before the sun goes down on the first night of the festival. |
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| The Dykeenies |
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| The hugely popular band, The Dykeenies will be joining the bill in the final weeks leading up to the festival. The band, described by NME as “Scotland’s biggest and best new band…a weird and utterly brilliant hybrid of The Killers and Panic! At The Disco. Only they’ll probably end up being bigger than both.” will be taking to the stage on Saturday in a major coup for the North East event. These guys are raring to go and this electric live act will have you jumping up and down with your arms in the air …….and that’s when they tune their guitars!. |
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