The Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie to play Welsh festival
The Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie, will be making waves at Wales’s newest major sport and music festival this summer.
Broudie is best known as the man behind the Three Lions football anthem but his career in music has been so much more than that.
He will play at the Snowdonia Outdoor Festival at Bala, against a twilight backdrop of the shimmering waters of Llyn Tegid and the majestic Berwyn Mountains.
The festival which runs from August 11 to 13, blends top class pop – as well as the Lightning Seeds there are multi-million sellers Scouting for Girls along with Toploader and Cast – with the great outdoors.
It will feature a packed programme including trail-running, hiking, canoeing, paddle boarding, swimming, climbing, mountain biking and more with camping for over three thousand on the site at Gwernhefin Farm, alongside the lake, and 10,000 expected over the weekend.
Broudie said: “It will be great to be in Wales. There are a lot of reasons it’s special. There are plenty of connections between Liverpool and Wales and it will be good to get on the stage right down by the water and play. It looks great there and should be a fabulous festival."
Broudie sprang to prominence at the tail of the 1970s with the band Big In Japan which included Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Holly Johnson on bass and he has produced albums for a galaxy of Merseysound big names from Echo and the Bunnymen to The Coral and The Zutons.
There will be something for everyone with the list of activities and sporting events already drawn up including a 30 kilometre trail run and a 1500 metre open water swim on Llyn Tegid which plunges to a depth of 138 feet.
There will also be a mountain bike challenge and a sportive while the outdoor activities are very much designed for families and will include hiking, canoeing, stand-up paddle boarding, gorge walking, sailing, windsurfing, rafting, swimming, climbing, walking and mountain biking with climbing walls and airbags set up and bushcraft talks and other hands-on activities available.
To buy a ticket and find out more information, visit www.snowdonia-outdoorfestival.co.uk
