Kaiser Chiefs, Happy Mondays and Sugar Hill Gang rock Dalkeith
The award-winning band were supported on the main stage by a first-class roster including one-time Libertine Pete Doherty, Happy Mondays, and iconic American hip-hop pioneers The Sugar Hill Gang, best known fro their 1979 hit Rapper’s Delight and Alan McGee’s Sunday Session Opening Party.
Also playing at yesterday’s festival were bassist and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, Peter Hook, British Sea Power and The Lorelei, Patersani, The Mechanical Alarms and Tamzene.
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Hide AdTickets for the sell-out festival were priced at £45 and £55.
It was billed as a festival for all the family and there was plenty of children’s entertainment on offer, including circus workshops, face painting, crafts and a funfair.
And Dalkeith Country Park was also the setting for another family-friendly music festival on Saturday.
It was a chance for fans of 80s music to indulge in some nostalgia and relive their youth by listening to Marc Almond, Billy Ocean, Tony Hadley and Go West.
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Hide AdOther performers at the Let’s Rock retro festival included Heaven 17, ABC, Altered Images and Midge Ure.
Let’s Rock has been staging festivals offering a retro blast from the 1980s since 2009 at venues across England.
This weekend’s event at Dalkeith was their first in Scotland.
Altered Images singer Claire Grogan said: “It’s always really nice for me to be back home and have family and friends in the audience.
“I’m always more nervous playing Scotland as I don’t want to let the home side down.”