{"id":723189,"date":"2026-08-01T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723189\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:33:09","slug":"james-force-to-pull-out-of-belladrum-headline-slot-as-tim-booth-loses-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723189\/","title":{"rendered":"James force to pull out of Belladrum headline slot as Tim Booth loses voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester indie band James have been forced to pull out of their headline set at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival after frontman Tim Booth lost his voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Festival producer Dougie Brown said it was rare to lose a headliner but Razorlight had been asked to step up to the slot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scots singer Cammy Barnes is to play Razorlight&#8217;s spot on the main stage.<\/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\">Brown said health came first and recognised James fans would be disappointed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barnes played Bella on Thursday and was asked to take Razorlight&#8217;s slot due to the crowd he drew. He was in Glasgow when he got the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester indie band James have been forced to pull out of their headline set at Belladrum Tartan Heart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}