Sunday Features...

In no particular order other than mildly chronological;

FEIS SPE, INSIDER PICNIC WITH ASSORTED JAZZHEADS, MARTIN GREEN, THOMSON & SALTER, DUNCAN DREVER, THE CONSULTANTS, HOPWOOD & BLACK, CHRIS BRADLEY, JARLATH HENDERSON, MACMASTER & HAY, JAMES MACENZIE, THE DUPLETS, ROSSCO GALLOWAY, INGE THOMPSON, GEESE, STATE BROADCASTERS, MICHAEL MARRA, ZOETROPE, LAU, HIDDEN ORCHESTRA, DJ DOLPHIN BOY, LETS TALK ABOUT TREES AND CHARLIE MCKERRON.

Saturday Features...

THE LAST BATTLE, ABAGAIL GREY, TRAPPED MICE, CROW ROAD, SAM LEE, THE BEVVY SISTERS, ROBIN ADAMS, ADOPTED AS HOLOGRAPH, DEAD MANS WALTZ, THE LITTLE KICKS, HOW TO SWIM, FRENCH WIVES, DONNA MACIOCIA, KITTY THE LION, BANANA SESSIONS, JOHN KNOX SEX CLUB, STANLEY ODD, ADMIRAL FALLOW, DJ NEM, WOODENBOX WITH A FISTFUL OF FIVERS, GECKO 3, LORD ROCHESTER, ASTROBOY, MIKE KEARNEYS KA-TET, THE HORNDOG BRASS BAND, PROVINYLIST KARIM.

And in various secret locations;

BLACK CATS, UNPEELED BANANAS AND OTHER STRANGE FRUITS, OVER THE WALL and BRONTO SKYLIFT

And that's just the tunes...

Friday features...

SOUTRA, MICHAEL MCLENNAN, THE INSIDER ORCHESTRA, DJ EAMONN, FINDLAY NAPIER, THE BONFIRE BAND, DUKE YOWIE, KETTLE OF KITES, HOMEWORK, RACHEL SERMANNI, NITEWORKS, WASHINGTON IRVING, DOWNTOWN WOLVES, MANS RUIN, MESUMA, ADAM HOLMES, CAPITALS, RURA, BONFIRE BAND, NEVADA BASE, KREEP AMONG OTHERS.

Full day by day line up coming tomorrow...

Get Steaming...

We have decided to run a charity auction on Saturday to benefit our favourite local Victorians, the Strathspey Steam railway. Anyone who decides to take the trip from Aviemore to Broomhill over the Insider weekend can do so for a childs price as long as they are in Victorian costume and we have 2 family passes valid until the end of the year as prizes for the moustache and flying machine awards.

Anyone who doesn't behave gets 2 years hard labour rebuilding their track out to Grantown.

Hidden Orchestra.

We are overjoyed to have Hidden Orchestra returning to the Insider.

A dress rehearsal.

Thanks to the many weddings we have had at Inshriach this month we can give you a taster of how the main stage field is going to look. It will have 2 less tipis and one more enormous saddlespan main stage, lots of furniture and revellers and a load more tents, food, a huge bar and ephemeral Victoriana but you start to get the picture.

Did someone say 3 weeks today?

Bring it Victori-on.

Thanks to Joe Maclay for the picture, click on it for a bit more detail.

The G2 Flying Machine awards.

Rally forth you inventors.

Thanks to Mike at G2 we are going to be honouring the pioneers of aviation with the Insider Festival Flying Machine awards. Great prizes and glory await the inventor of the cannyest machine.

There are some rules. We have already determined that a steam engine does not have the power to weight ratio required for flight so we recommend mechanical (ie human) power, or the power of witchcraft or alchemy. Airships, gliders and balloons are permitted. Your flying machine must be portable, excess weight is the enemy of flight in any case. You must be able carry the machine to the launching point at the top of a steep hill so do not make it the size of a horseless carriage and you must be able to to strap your machine firmly to your body. You will be inspected by a team of experts for mechanical integrity before flight and only be cleared for take off if we are satisfied these conditions have been met. Insider management cannot take responsibility for the loss of either aviators or their machines during flight but we are responsible for the safety of spectators underneath the flight path.

To win the award you will be required to make a flight of 100 feet, we allow a continuously downward trajectory at an altitude between 50 and 10 feet from the ground and you will be launched from a short but perilously steep runway approximately 60 feet from the ground. Flight stewards, supervisors and medical professionals will be on hand.

Chocks away.