{"id":579031,"date":"2026-08-01T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579031\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:37:09","slug":"party-animals-flock-to-belladrum-for-final-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579031\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Party animals&#8217; flock to Belladrum for final day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Music fans have arrived for the final day of Belladrum, dressed to the Highland festival&#8217;s theme for this year &#8211; party animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the event, near Beauly, between Thursday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester indie band James, whose hits included Sit Down and Laid in the 1990s and Getting Away With It in 2001, will headline the main stage later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bassist Jim Glennie said their performance could include a taster of some of the music from a new album the band is working on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The weekend so far has seen performances on the Hot House main stage by Callum Beattie, Mika, The Human League, Rizzle Kicks and Scouting for Girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music fans have arrived for the final day of Belladrum, dressed to the Highland festival&#8217;s theme for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-579031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}