Preview: Loopallu Festival 2013

One of the most charming and revered festivals on the Scottish summer calendar is Loopallu, set in the idyllic village of Ullapool 57 miles north west of Inverness on Friday 20^th and Saturday 21^st September. It’s been the home for an enticingly intimate event which has boasted a line-up punching well above its weight year upon year, and that reputation will only increase with chart topping The Enemy as the focal point in 2013.

The Coventry rockers have been firm fixtures on the festival circuit since they crashed into the album charts at number one with We’ll live and die in these towns in 2007, a gritty take on the urban nightmare of the working class. They’ve since gone onto have two further top ten albums and represent the epitome of no nonsense indie group, with an unrivalled stage presence and persona.

The next name sees the Midlands class savviness shifting a generation with the presence of Birmingham based The Beat, who thirty years before the Enemy tore into the charts were making their own musings on a very different British landscape. Their mixture of two tone and ska made for a humorous slight on a particularly bleak period in British history, as the country became defined by the policy making of Margaret Thatcher, muse for many musicians (The Beat included) for all the wrong reasons.

Also playing will be Roddy Woomble and The Moulettes, with plenty more line-up announcements planned for the upcoming weeks as it shapes up to be the one of the sharpest choices to end Festival season in September.

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