TAKING place near the Lake of Mentieth from July 13 to July 15, Doune The Rabbit Hole is a gem on Scotland’s festival scene. Its music line-up is a winning alliance of festival stalwarts such as The Orb and Dreadzone, hot contemporary names such as This Is The Kit and activist-rapper Akala, stars of the Scottish indie scene such as Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert and We Were Promised Jetpacks, and a gaggle of eccentrics and experimentalists out to widen your ears.

Celebrating their 30th anniversary this year are crusty folk-rock favourites Levellers, whose spot at Doune will be their only Scottish performance this year. Also making their only UK appearance in 2018 are English psychedelic-rockers Temples and Atari Teenage Riot, the provocative Berliners who are guaranteed to make one hell of a racket.

Also on the bill are wonky soulsters Fauves, post-punk trio Bas Jan (a recent signing to Pictish Trail’s Lost Map label), multi-instrumentalist Richard Youngs, metal heavies Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and The Cosmic Dead, a four-piece from Glasgow who describe themselves as “a psychonautal cosmodelic buckfaustian quartet”.

“It was great to get Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs on there,” says Doune director Jamie Murray of the line-up, which is programmed in partnership with Glasgow promoters Synergy Concerts. “I’m also really excited we got Banana Oil. I had known [drummer] Laurie Pitt’s other bands, like Golden Teacher and think they are really great.”

Making skronking, underground jazz wigouts, Banana Oil say they are “like the Mothers of Invention without all the toxic masculinity”.

“I love having more experimental stuff at the festival, that’s also a big part of what we do,” says Murray.

“Children seem to love experimental music, maybe because they don’t have all those preconceptions.”

With generous concessions for young people, free tickets for under-12s, activities for children and a separate camping area, Doune is renowned its warm welcome to families – including those with canine members.

“All the food and drink areas will have bowls, water and treats,” says Murray, who co-founded Doune The Rabbit Hole back in 2010. Originally the festival was held near to the titular village, a place which has seen tourism surge in recent years due to the “Outlander effect”.

Murray continues: “We pride ourselves on the fact that the atmosphere of the festival is as important as the live music. I’m overjoyed that we have Levellers playing their only Scottish date.”

July 13 to July 15, near the Lake of Mentieth, Cardross Estate, Stirling, weekend tickets: £80 to £90, day tickets: July 13: £35, July 14 and July 15: £50, concessions for young people, under 12s go free. www.dounetherabbithole.co.uk