SCOTTISH five-piece Idlewild will make their debut at the Ramsbottom Festival this year.

They will headline on Saturday with tracks from their new album, Everything Ever Written, along with classics spanning their 20-year career.

Idlewild formed in Edinburgh in 1995, but went into hiatus in 2010, before delighting fans three years later with a fresh line up and new album following some "well earned time off".

The band, featuring Roddy Woomble, Rod Jones, Colin Newton, Luciano Rossi and Andrew Mitchell will join Saturday headliners the Proclaimers and Sunday headliners the Wonder Stuff to make up a "nineties revival" weekend.

The three-day festival will also include performances by Ciaran Lavery, Tom Robinson Band and Mark Radcliffe's Galleon Blast. Irish soul songstress Grainne Duffy will also take to the stage along with folk-blues singer Marc O'Reilly and Manchester's own Space Monkeys.

Other performers include The Sundowners, Slow Readers Club, The Narrows, Rura, Flight Brigade, The Slytones, Houdini Dax, Edward II, Baked A La Ska, Bendrix, Moulettes and David Gibb.

Rod said: "It's been a really busy summer with festivals so it will be nice to do one more where we haven't played. From the look of the headliners it's like a '90s revival.

"We'll be playing a bit of a mix of new and old songs – some for the younger crowd and some for the fans from the start. You can assume the greatest hits are all the older classics but a lot of the new fans might not know them and have a different view on what they want to hear."

The band recently came out of a three-year break from the limelight.

Rod said: "We've been going 20 years next month so we did need some well earned time off. We'd been doing it for so long that we wanted to do other things because it was starting to feel a little tired and we felt that the music might get a bit formulaic.

"When we teamed up again and got some other people involved it didn't feel like that — it felt new and exciting. It's like it breathed a new life into the band.

"Taking a break can give you a new lease of life and reaction to the new material has been fantastic."

A lot has changed in the past two decades — specifically the effect digital music has had on the industry.

Rod said: "Without a doubt digital has had a massive effect on the music industry — some positive and some negative. You have to work a lot harder these days — we were spoiled back in the '90s when bands had support from labels. We were very lucky to have them on our side — a lot of bands don't have that luxury.

"That said I do think it is easier now to get music out there using things like social media. It's just harder to distinguish yourselves from the other million bands out there doing the same thing."

Rod has some advice to bands that are looking to break into the business.

He said: "You've got to go into the business with your eyes wide open. Don't go in it to make money — do it because you want to make music. If you enjoy it and you work hard you can make a living out of it.

"We are at a stage in our career where we are preaching to the converted with the fans at our gigs. They are our favourite to play where we can do a two-hour set. Festivals are much harder to judge because you're going out in front of people who might not have heard you before. But we don't take that too seriously – we have been there and done that. We're just happy to be doing what we do.

The Ramsbottom Festival is taking place on September 18, 19 and 20. For tickets and more details visit ramsbottomfestival.com.