Barnes drove for four hours to get to Bella, near Beauly in the Highlands, and arrived 10 minutes before he was due to go on stage.<\/p>\n
“The security guard at the front of Belladrum wouldn’t let me in. I said: ‘I’m playing the main stage’, but she said my name wasn’t on the list.<\/p>\n
“I drove past her. I felt awful, she was running after the car.”<\/p>\n
Returning to Glasgow on Sunday, Barnes finished his “mad weekend” in style performing with Delta Goodrem, who had hits in the early 2000s including Born to Try and Innocent Eyes.<\/p>\n
“That was a crazy experience,” said Barnes. It was the first time I’ve worn a suit on stage, which was cool.”<\/p>\n
He added: “She was so, so nice. She’s an absolute Australian superstar, so it was fun for me to get the opportunity to do that with her.”<\/p>\n
Barnes said he was living a dream he had held since his first gig when he was 16.<\/p>\n
“I’m 36 now. It has taken me 20 years to get to playing the main stage of festivals.<\/p>\n
“Twenty years of absolute hustle, of not selling gigs.<\/p>\n
“Most normal people would have quit and done something else.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barnes drove for four hours to get to Bella, near Beauly in the Highlands, and arrived 10 minutes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-728810","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\/728810","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=728810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}