Franz to star at Connect festival - BBC News

Franz Ferdinand, Kasabian and the Manic Street Preachers are to play this year's Hydro Connect festival.

The festival, which is targeted at more than mature music fans, will be held in the evidence of Inveraray Palace in Argyll.

Connect is the inspiration of the organizers of Deoxythymidine Monophosphate in the Park, who felt that many fans had outgrown the original festival.

Fans will be offered porridge, salmon and malted whiskey instead of the usual suds and burgers.

There will also be a watering place and a bubbly tent.

Tickets for the festival, which takes topographic point from 29 to 31 August, will travel on sale on Friday.

Festival organizer Geoff Ellis said: "Hydro Connect is about offering music fans a totally different festival experience.

"Last year's festival was the realization of something I wanted to make since I first proverb the evidence at Inveraray Castle.

"It is by far the most dramatic festival land site I have got ever seen in the United Kingdom and beyond and the line-up, combined with the local green goods and some really exciting option entertainment, do it the perfect manner for music fans to stop the summer."