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Through the Insider website.

Big thanks go out to Rufus White, Molly Micklethwait White, Mathew White (no relation as far as we know), Ben Addis and Henry Ryder for the extraordinary work that has gone into this year's website.

Huzzar.

Line up now full.

Thanks to the many many folk who have submitted bands in the 48 hours since the website went up. If you don't hear from us it's not because we don't love you it's simply that there have been so many submissions that we don't even have time to listen to everyone and, while we may look a bit confused, actually our line up is pretty much finished.

Plus it's spring time, it's a lovely day and we have lots of stuff to go and invent.

The Line Up and the website.

Which comes first - the line up or the website?

It seems they are coming together, in an explosive crescendo of organisational blissfulness.

The line up is in the expert hands of Gordon Reilly and features choice curation throughout the weekend. We have Sunday afternoon presented by Lau, record company showcases, a few of our old favourites and a rake of hot new talent, a full (and yet provisional and open to alteration) line up announcement is on the cards for next week.

And the website? The site is all texted up and schemed out and contains outstanding Victorian artwork by Rufus White - it just might be released tomorrow with tickets going on sale after the weekend.

Lets talk about trees.

Considering where we are we feel it's very important to...

Going down the pub.

Friday we are heading down the Old Bridge Inn to see Insider favourites Donna Maciocia and Paul Gilbody in their latest collaboration, MaGoodBody, then next Tuesday we are going back to see The Vaccines.

Why go anywhere else?

The Board of Backwoods reconvenes.

Three months exactly before Insider 2011 we took a wander round Inshriach on a beautiful day in the snow. It reminded us how amazing the Backwoods stage and bar is and got us totally stoked up about our plans for this year.

We then convened in the Backwoods board room (ahem - The Old Bridge Inn) and hammered some of the finer points of the line up into shape. With any luck its only days before the Insider website version 1 goes live and we make some sort of announcement.

If you see increasingly peculiar moustaches around Aviemore over the coming months it may have something to do with everyone getting it Victori-on.

Insider website and tickets.

People keep asking whether we are selling tickets yet, who is playing or even if we have sold out but the truth is we don't like to hurry these things. The Insider website is about to leap into shape, the cogs of design, production and planning are turning and once we are ready we will do a mail out, hit you with a line up to die for (which we will actually finish 2 days before the festival) and put tickets on sale.

See you in June.