{"id":57845,"date":"2026-08-01T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/james-force-to-pull-out-of-belladrum-headline-slot-as-tim-booth-loses-voice\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:58:00","slug":"james-force-to-pull-out-of-belladrum-headline-slot-as-tim-booth-loses-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/james-force-to-pull-out-of-belladrum-headline-slot-as-tim-booth-loses-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"James force to pull out of Belladrum headline slot as Tim Booth loses voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester indie band James have been forced to pull out of their headline set at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival after frontman Tim Booth lost his voice.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Festival producer Dougie Brown said it was rare to lose a headliner but Razorlight had been asked to step up to the slot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scots singer Cammy Barnes is to play Razorlight&#8217;s spot on the main stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the event, near Beauly, between Thursday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown said health came first and recognised James fans would be disappointed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barnes played Bella on Thursday and was asked to take Razorlight&#8217;s slot due to the crowd he drew. He was in Glasgow when he got the call.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c77g67l0zl4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester indie band James have been forced to pull out of their headline set at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival after frontman Tim Booth lost his voice. Festival producer Dougie Brown said it was rare to lose a headliner but Razorlight had been asked to step up to the slot. Scots singer Cammy Barnes is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[16182,16183,2718,7290,2112,655,9697,3869,5445,1131],"class_list":["post-57845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-belladrum","tag-booth","tag-force","tag-headline","tag-james","tag-loses","tag-pull","tag-slot","tag-tim","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57847,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57845\/revisions\/57847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}