Bearded Theory

Happy Christmas

Thank you for your amazing support in 2015 and we hope you have a wonderful Christmas period with your family and friends.

Our Christmas present to you is to announce a few more names for our ninth festival. We are delighted to be welcoming PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED to headline the Saturday night. Their legendary frontman John Lydon will be bringing his customary swagger to the Pallet Stage, along with PiL’s incendiary back catalogue. Joining them and completing the days billing are Jamaican reggae legends BLACK UHURU.

A quick update regarding the final bands for the Pallet. Friday night we have one band contracted but we are not allowed to announce yet and another we haven’t quite got over the line. On Sunday are close to securing our final headliner and second biller but it will be a New Year announcement for both of these.

The MAGICAL SOUNDS crew have been busy and we have a huge line up to announce and arguably the biggest in the Magical history.JUNO REACTOR will bring their legendary full live show to top the billing on Saturday, also performing on Saturday is DJ LUCAS (TWISTED), MANMADEMAN, MERV PEPLER (EAT STATIC), OOOD, ED TANGENT, AUDIOADDICTZ, MUTATED PONY, MAD MICK and ENGINE, EARS.

The infamous and legendary OTT & THE ALL SEEING EYE top Sunday and we also welcome THE ORB, ASTRALASIA, LOOP GURU, NITEWORKS, INDIGIO HERDER, USHTI BABA and REV DREAD SUNDAY SERVICE.

STRONTIUM DOGS headline Friday and will be joined by CHRIS LIBERATOR AND STIRLING MOSS, FESTIVAL FAVOURITES SUBGIANT, GLOWBONES, DOGHOUSE (SICKNOTE). DARK CITY SISTAS, CLUMSY, BENJI303, CRYSTAL GEF and DRUM MACHINE.

The Woodland welcomes our friends the 3 DAFT MONKEYS who complete Saturdays line up, FLUTATIOUS who join us on the Sunday and ATILLA THE STOCKBROKER who jumps on board Fridays line up. The Woodland has a handful of names to announce including Sundays closing headliner.

We have full listings due out next month to finalise all stages including our brand new stage MAUI WAUI (see picture below). The full line up for the Maui Waui, Convoy Cabaret and Woodland Comedy will be released next month.

Gail is back with her motley crew to run the crazy Something Else Tea Tent and open mic, amazingly this is Gail’s 9th year with the festival. The festival school is back on the Friday and the Children’s Village will once again be free of charge to all parents. Thornbridge are back again for their 5th year at the festival bringing award winning ales at pub tariffs. Following on from feedback we are putting a bigger selection of real ales and ciders into the Woodland area. We also have an exciting new cabaret tent but we are sorting out some finer details with this. The site art budget has been doubled and will be brought together by our friends at Labyrinth Arts along with them producing a wonderful healing area.

We have repositioned the car park so you don’t have any ramps or road crossings and its much closer to the campsite than last year. Apologies, we fluffed that up last time around. We also have the same toilet contractor back again to make sure we are sparkling for the whole festival. We also have looked at sorting out the public transport to the festival and we are delighted to have coaches picking up in 18 locations plus running a shuttle service from Litchfield. Every person that uses the service we will protect 5 square foot of the rain forest for 10 years. Please use the service as it’s taken us ages to get this sorted and it will save parking charges. The quiet camping will be in a much bigger area along with access camping. It’s great to see these areas being used and being available to those that need it.

Would you like the chance to perform at Bearded Theory 2020? The One Big Showcase stage will be in its 3^rd year in 2020, offering unsigned and up and coming acts the chance to perform to sell out festival crowds. 2019’s One Big Showcase stage saw a hugely diverse line up deliver excellent performances across the three days, read all about it here.

Run in association with the Academy of Music & Sound, the One Big Showcase stage could be the platform your act needs to take it to the next level.

To be in with a chance of playing you will need to complete the sign up form below.

Entries will be taken up until December 31^st 2019.

Successful entrants will be invited to perform via email following the closing date in December.

APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED

We finally bring comedy to the Woodland Stage for the first time in 2018 and we are delighted to have secured some amazing comedians for Friday and Saturday night. Comedians will take to the stage after the music has finished at midnight and provide you with another option for your late-night antics.

Friday night we welcome TOM WRIGGLESWORTH, a multi award winning comedian who is best known for his live storytelling shows and BBC Radio comedy programmes which take a comical and emotional look at family. Master of mayhem, prop lunatic WES ZAHARUK, takes audience on a joy-ride of frenzy machine-gun anarchic physical comedy routines and maniac physical audience interaction. relationships. Winner of the first ever Jongleurs Competition and a seasoned regular on the circuit SUSAN MURRAY, who has emerged as one of the best female stand-ups in the UK. ROB MULLHOLLAND is genre-defying, boundary-pushing and outright hilarious, mastering the art of exaggerated anger. The evening will be compered by SULLY O’SULLIVAN who might just be the most successful Kiwi Stand-up you’ve never heard of.

Saturday, we are joined by sstylishly shirted, Yorkshire-born SCOTT BENNETT delivers wry observations on the absurdity of modern living, Britain’s Best Comedy Mind Reader DOUG SEGAL, musical comedy act DUNCAN OAKLEY and festival favorite SEAN PERCIVAL who has performed at the Edinburgh, Download, Reading, Leeds and Sonisphere festivals and as an established headliner he plays regularly at all major comedy clubs around the UK. Compered by Geordie comic BARRY DODD’S.

Ales

Stairway to Heaven -5%
Plum Porter – 4.9%
Roaring Meg – 5.5%
Jump Araand – 4.5%
Butcombe Gold – 4.4%
Illicit – 4.3%
Cocker Hoop – 4.6%
BG Sips – 4%
Ay Up – 3.9%
Golden Delicious – 3.9%
Cumberland – 4%
Top Totty – 4%
Cherry stout – 4.4%
Top Dog (Vegan) -5%
Youngs Special – 4.5%
Hobgoblin – 4%
Old empire IPA – 5.7%
Bridge Bitter – 4%
X – 10%
Black sabbath – 6%
Fist full of Hops – 4.5%
Pale rider – 5.2%
EPA – 3.8%
Snecklifter – 5.1%
Hobgoblin Gold – 4%
Chocolate Orange Stout – 4.5%

Ciders – Here are just a few of what ciders are on offer (THERE ARE LOADS MORE TBA)

Flavours as follows – Mango, Rhubarb, Wild Berries, Dandelion & Burdock, Peach Melba, Spiced Rum, Strawberry, Damson, Apple & Ginger, Gooseberry plus many more

Old Rosie
Wizards Sleeve
Family Reserve
Westons Perry
Dog Dancer
Black Dragon
Black Rat,Moonshine
Broadoak Perry
Rosies Pig

Lagers

Freedom Four – 4% (vegan & locally brewed)
Kaltenburg – 4%
Freedom Organic – 4.8% (vegan)
Warsteiner – 5%

We’ve made this year’s Facebook competition even better! We are giving away a fully furnished 4-man tipi for the weekend from Hearthworks Tipis & Yurts, £150 Thornbridge Brewery bar tab, 12 meals over the weekend from a selected food concession, 4 x official 2016 ‪#‎festival‬ T-shirts AND 2 free 2016 programmes & lanyards.

We don’t give away tickets as it isn’t fair on those who have bought them already.

To be in with a chance of winning, all you need to do is like and share this competition on Facebook, we’ve pinned it to the top of our feed so it’s easy to find.

The closing date is March 30th and we’ll be announcing the lucky winner on April 2nd!

https://www.facebook.com/beardedtheoryfestival/

Today The Wildhearts are proud to announce the release of Renaissance Men, their first full-length studio album in 10 years on Graphite Records.

“It’s The Wildhearts remembering what they do best” – 9 out 10, hailed Classic Rock, with Metal Hammer saying Renaissance Men is “the best thing they’ve made since their genius / batshit crazy debut, Earth Vs The Wildhearts, back in 1993. Actually, thats not true. It might be better.” While Planet Rock Magazine gave the album 5 stars and Vive Le Rock gave 10 out 10.

To celebrate the release of Renaissance Men, The Wildhearts unveil a NSFW video for the new single Let Em Go: https://youtu.be/hgwJf6vxXBY

“Let Em Go is a song about ridding your life of wankers. The Wildhearts feel it is healthy to demand quality friendship and get rid of all the shit from your life.” – The Wildhearts.

The Wildhearts classic line up of Ginger, CJ, Ritchie and Danny, recorded the energetic and diverse ‘Renaissance Men’ at the Treehouse Studio. Produced by Jim Pinder ‘Renaissance Men’ finds The Wildhearts at their full creative tilt delivering hard-hitting, retooled classic rock with a modern twist. Bristling riffs and jagged, riotous hooks are their poison and the 10 songs, including the radio hits Dislocated and Let Em Go are the perfect manifestation of the band’s immutable wit, charm and righteous anger.

The album cover for ‘Renaissance Men’ was painted by Eliran Kantor (Testament, Iced Earth, Sodom).

The honest and irresistible ‘Renaissance Men’ is an unequivocal triumph, which encapsulates and distills perfectly The Wildhearts’ live energy.

The album is available in usual CD and vinyl formats, with T-Shirt bundles available, plus limited edition orange cassette tape and a yellow vinyl exclusive to independent retailers.

To order, stream or download ‘Renaissance Men’ go to: http://smarturl.it/RenaissanceMen

‘Renaissance Men’ track listing

01 Dislocated.

02 Let ‘Em Go.

03 The Renaissance Men.

04 Fine Art of Deception.

05 Diagnosis.

06 My Kinda Movie.

07 Little Flower.

08 Emergency (Fentanyl Babylon).

09 My Side Of The Bed.

10 Pilo Erection.

To coincide with the release of ‘Renaissance Men’ The Wildhearts play an 8 date UK tour. This intimate tour will start tonight in Manchester at the Academy 2 and concludes at the Riverside in Newcastle on Sunday 12^th May.

The Wildhearts will be completing a series of instore signings while on tour, including Fopp in London’s Covent Garden, the day before their Brixton show.

May instore signings

Fri        3^rdManchester HMV @ 12.30pm
Sat      4^thEdinburgh Fopp @ 12.00pm
Mon    6^thCardiff HMV @ 1.00pm
Tue      7^thBristol HMV @ 5.30pm
Thur    8^thCovent Garden Fopp @ 6.00pm

Fri        10^thNorwich HMV @ 5.00pm
Sat      11^thLeeds HMV @ 2.00pm
Sun    12^thNewcastle HMV @ 2.00pm

Creatively brilliant, The Wildhearts play a distinctive fusion of hard rock, perfectly complimented by contemporary melodies. With a career spanning 30 years The Wildhearts helped change the landscape of British rock through the 90’s, and to this day they haven’t shown any sign of slowing down. Miss these shows at your peril.

The Renaissance Men tour dates

w/ support from Massive Wagons and Towers of London

Fri 3^rd Manchester Academy 2 SOLD OUT

Sat 4^th Edinburgh Liquid Room SOLD OUT

Mon 6^th Cardiff Tramshed

Tue 7^th Bristol SWX

Thur 9^th London Brixton Electric

Fri 10^th Norwich Waterfront

Sat 11^th Leeds Stylus

Sun 12^th Newcastle Riverside

Tickets are available at: https://www.omerch.eu/shop/thewildhearts

May

Thur 23^rd Blackpool Waterloo Music Bar SOLD OUT

Fri 24^th Derbyshire Bearded Theory’s Spring Gathering

Sat 25^th Lincolnshire Call of the Wild Festival

Sun 26^th Sudbury LeeStock Music Festival

June

Wed 26^thCarlisle Brickyard

Thu      27^th      Glasgow          Kelvingrove Bandstand           w/ Gun & Terrorvision
Sun      30^th      Gabu               Osaka                          Japan
July
Mon     1^st        Nagoya           Apollo Base                             Japan

Tue      2^nd       Tokyo              Duo Music Exchange Japan
Fri        12^th      Cheltenham    2000 Trees Festival
Thu      18^th      Liverpool         Grand Central
Fri        19^th      Kent                 Ramblin’ Man Fair

September
Sat 14^th Sheffield Rockin The Bowl

October

Thu      10^th      Holmfirth         Picturedrome
Fri        11^th      Helsinki           Virgin Oil and Co                    Finland
Sat       12^th      Stockholm       Fryhuset                                  Sweden
Thu      24^th      Amsterdam     Q Factory                                Netherlands

November
Fri 29^thBuckley Tivoli
Sat 30^th Madrid Sala Spain

http://www.thewildhearts.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TheWildhearts

Hello and welcome to our new website

We hope you find everything you need to know about Bearded Theory here and if you have any suggestions or feedback please log onto our forum.

The website will updated again once we announce the first batch of 2013 acts on October 26^th 2012.

Thank you for coming to visit our online home and we look forward to welcoming you in May at Kedleston Hall.

It’s that time of year…We’ve been nominated in the UK Festival Awards for the following categories for 2015:

Best Small Festival
Grass Roots Award
Best Family Festival
Best Toilets

We’re now relying on you all to vote for us and share the love for Bearded Theory

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