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The Waterboys are the first headliners to be announced for the 2017 Hebridean Celtic Festival.

The festival will also feature singer songwriter and former X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan, as well as Tide Lines, a Scottish band with strong traditional influences who launched earlier this year.

It will be a third appearance at HebCelt for The Waterboys formed in 1983 by Mike Scott. Their first visit, in 2003, set a record for the biggest ever gig in the islands, and their return in 2012 was a huge sell-out success.

Their most recent album, Modern Blues which was released last year, was recorded in Nashville, produced by Mike Scott and mixed by the award-winning Bob Clearmountain, who has worked with hundreds of artists including Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Bryan Adams, Robbie Williams and Simple Minds.

The band will close the four-day festival on Saturday night, 22 July.

Mike Scott said: “I am delighted to bring my troupe of musicians back to Stornoway and Lewis for another fabulous bash at HebCelt!  We have some Americans in the band and I look forward to blowing their minds with the beauty of Lewis and the wildness of the people."

Lucy Spraggan, who describes her music as 'A-Flop' - a mixture of acoustic, folk, and hip hop, has three Top 40 albums and several sell-out tours to her name.

She appeared on the X Factor in 2012 and since then her audition video has been viewed 35 million times on YouTube.

Tide Lines are a four-piece band who were launched on social media in June and their debut single, Far Side of the World, entered the UK download charts less than 24 hours later.

The band consists of former Skipinnish members Robert Robertson, from Lochaber and Ross Wilson, from Mull; as well as Alasdair Turner, from Alness, and Fergus Munro from Glasgow.

First acts announced for Hebridean Celtic Festival 2017

8 December 2016