The Connect Music Festival is a music festival that takes place at Inveraray Castle at Loch Fyne in Argyll, Scotland.
It is composed of five stages of music and two other areas:
- The Oyster Stage - Main Stage hosting the headline acts and other bands
- Guitars & Other Machines - More popular and less well known rock bands
- Manicured Noise - Electronic and Dance acts
- Unknown Pleasures - Ambient acts (playing through the night)
- The Double Six Club - A drinking and social area
- Circuses and Bread - Food and drink area
- Your Sound Bandstand - Unsigned Scottish acts chosen by the Your Sound Network
This is of no relation to the Connect Electronic music Festival which has taken place annually in Saskatchewan, Canada since 1996.
The first festival in 2007 damaged the Winterton shinty pitch, home of Inveraray Shinty Club, meaning that the pitch was unplayable for the rest of the 2007 season. [1]
2007 Line-up
Oyster Stage
Guitars & Other Machines
Manicured Noise
Your Sound Bandstand
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In no specific order
- We Are The Physics
- The Twilight Sad
- Invisibles
- Stopstarts
- Oscillation
- The Kazoo Funk Orchestra
- Le Reno Amps
- Yellow Bentines
- The Scarlet
- Early Songs
- Rick Redbeard
- Glasvegas
- Six People Away
- The Ads
- Jack Butler
- Frightened Rabbit
- Low Miffs
- Baillie And The Fault
- The Apple Scruffs
- Hi 5 Alive
- El Padre
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2008
In 2008, the festival changed its name to Hydro Connect.
The 2008 Hyrdo Connect Music Festival will take place on Friday 29th August to Sunday 31st August. The artists performing include Kasabian, Manic Street Preachers, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Amy MacDonald, Sigur Ros, Goldfrapp, Paolo Nutini, Mercury Rev, Gossip, Elbow, Duffy, The Coral, Ladytron, The Roots, Sparks, Crystal Castles, Young Knives and Joan As Police Woman. The full line-up can be viewed on the Official Website.
External links
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