Fake Festival will be biggest gig yet
South Inch event set for another sell-out
Perth’s annual Fake Festival is on course to sell out again, and organisers have admitted the Fair City stop has helped pioneer the event’s Scottish ambitions.
As only the second Scottish stop for the touring festival, the team behind the tribute act extravaganza have heralded its success and admitted Perth has been a stepping stone to adding further dates in Scotland.
Event manager Lee Storey told the Perthshire Advertiser: “This will be the third event held in Perth. We had one in Greenock before it came here, which was the first in Scotland.
“The whole event is based around providing a good, safe, family friendly festival in towns rather than the biggest cities, so that people don’t need to travel.
“At the last two events, we’ve had lots of great feedback. The event has been really well supported and has proved that it was a great decision coming to Scotland.
“It’s been really well received, and we have had particularly good comments from people from Dundee and Dunfermline, so we’ve began taking the festival there too.”
This year, tribute bands will perform the hits of Muse (Musest), Queen (Flash), Kasabian (Kazabian), Oasis (Oasish), Stereophonics (Stereotonics) and Green Day (Green Date) at the city’s South Inch.
The festival is upping its number of acts from three to six across the board, and Lee has put the expansion down to the success of previous events.
He added: “We’ve been running as a company for 11 years now and, as the name suggests, we have the country’s top tribute acts. We’ve established ourselves enough that people want to see more bands playing and to see them performing all day.
“The council have been great to work with and very supportive. We’re on track for this year’s plans, which are well under way.
Oasish will be playing in Perth
“This year’s event seems to be just as popular as ever. The last two events sold out, and there’s no reason that can’t happen again. There were over 1500 people at them.
“It’s a long drive for us up from Yorkshire but it’s definitely one that we’re looking forward to!”
The last two events sold out, and there’s no reason that can’t happen again