Rockness at 20: how two Highland promoters pulled off the biggest festival since T in the Park
20 years ago this week, three promoters - and a cast and crew of thousands - pulled off one of the more audacious festival launches in UK history.
At a time when the brewery-backed T in the Park was the number one choice for the overwhelming majority of Scottish music fans each summer, an upstart on the banks of Loch Ness proved there was room for two.
In early 2006, Joe Gibbs and Robert Hicks were working on the Belladrum Tartan Heart festival - based a few miles outside of Inverness - and had begun scouting sites around Loch N... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
