Category: Line-ups – UK Festivals
MORE ACTS ADDED TO BRISTOL DOT TO DOT 2012 BILL
Bristol Dot to Dot festival, which takes place in various venues on 2 June, has added a whole host of new acts to the bill. Cloud Nothings, The Internet, A Plastic Rose, All The Young, Doldrums, Two Wounded Birds, Here We Go Magic, Hyde & Beast, The Dunwells, Eugene Francis Jr, Last DinosaurS, O Children, [...]
CHAI WALLAHS REVEALS ITS LINE-UP FOR GREEN MAN FESTIVAL 2012
Chai Wallahs will return to Green Man Festival this year, with another top musical line up and all round good late night times. Confirmed for this year’s Chai Wallahs is former 247 Magazine cover star Gabby Young and Other Animals, Yes Sir Boss, Dizraeli and the Small Gods, Hidden Orchestra, Cocos Lovers, Sheelanagig, Smerin’s Anti [...]
NEW ORDER, PRIMAL SCREAM AND SPIRITUALIZED FOR NEW FESTIVAL NO.6 IN WALES
The breathtaking Welsh fairytale village of Portmeirion will provide astonishing backdrop for a brand new festival this year – Festival No. 6 – with New Order, Primal Scream and Spiritualized all confirmed to play. The first wave of artist announcements also sees DJ performances from Francois K (Deep Space), Erol Alkan, Mr Scruff (Keep It [...]
THE FUTUREHEADS ADDED TO NOZSTOCK FESTIVAL 2012 LINE-UP
North East indie-popsters The Futureheads will headline this year’s Nozstock Festival, which takes place in Bromyard, Herefordshire from July 27-29. Sunderland post-punk power quartet The Futureheads burst onto the scene in the early noughties. After a string of releases it was their cover version of Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds Of Love’ that firmly etched them into [...]
THE MACCABEES ADDED TO BEACHBREAK LIVE 2012
Beach Break Live 2012 have added special guests, The Maccabees, to their biggest line-up yet The Maccabees are the apple of the music industry’s eye for 2012 and the Brighton boys will be performing on Sunday 17th June at the UK’s student festival, their album Given To The Wild has achieved huge critical and commercial [...]
CHASE AND STATUS ADDED TO EDEN SESSIONS LINE-UP
Chase & Status have been confirmed as the latest acts to be headlining an Eden Session on Wednesday July 4. Special guest on the evening will be Labrinth. The London duo, otherwise known as Saul Milton and Will Kennard, are returning to the Eden Project, Cornwall having headlined the sell out Eden Arts Cafe and [...]
TICKETS STILL LEFT FOR THE GREAT ESCAPE IN BRIGHTON
There are still tickets left for the UK’s answer to SXSW festival – The Great Escape in Brighton. The citywide festival, in a similar vein to Bristol’s Dot to Dot, London’s Camden Crawl and Cardiff’s SWN, has pulled in some massive headliners this year – as well as no shortage of up and coming bands and what’s [...]
FULL LINE-UP ANNOUNCED FOR HOP FARM FESTIVAL 2012
Richard Ashcroft has been unveiled as the final headliner for this year’s Hop Farm Festival – another UK festival exclusive for the Kent event. He joins the likes of Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and the New Blood Orchestra and Suede. Organisers have now revealed the full line up for the festival, which takes place on June [...]
NOAH AND THE WHALE + THE VACCINES TO PLAY EDEN SESSIONS 2012
Noah and the Whale and The Vaccines will co-headline an Eden Session on Wednesday July 11. Indie folk band Noah and the Whale released their third studio album Last Night on Earth last year. The album hit number 8 in the UK charts, following 2008 debut record Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down (number 5) [...]
SOMERSET TO HOST NEW STRUMMER OF LOVE FESTIVAL
Strummer of Love, a one-off, unique festival to commemorate the late, great Joe Strummer is to be held at a beautiful, secret location in the middle of the Somerset countryside this summer. Taking place on the weekend of 17-19 August, the event will mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Strummer, the legendary Clash [...]
TRILOGY OF US LEGENDS HEADLINE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 2012
The Isle of Wight Festival is known around the globe as one of the hottest dates on the cultural calendar, famed for being a truly remarkable celebration of eclectic music & fun in the sun. The Festival begins on 21 June 2012, the eve of the summer solstice and with such a spectacular line up, [...]
TRIO OF UK FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVES FOR HOP FARM 2012
Folk legend Bob Dylan will visit Hop Farm Festival 2012 along with the iconic Wiltshire-based singer/songwriter and WOMAD festival founder Peter Gabriel and the New Blood Orchestra and Britpop legends Suede, whose guitarist Richard Oakes is from the Westcountry. All three acts will be UK exclusive festival appearances – meaning you won’t catch them at [...]
LINE UP REVEALED FOR CHELTENHAM TREES ON FIRE FESTIVAL 2012
Following the success of the last two offerings, the Trees on Fire Festival returns triumphantly with a Spring related moniker Brought to you by 2000trees Festival and Cheltenham’s own istartedthefire records, the show brings you 17 bands and artists (from local performers to es…tablished touring bands) staggered over two stages for your listening pleasure Acts confirmed [...]
FRANK TURNER, TIM MINCHIN AND MORE ADDED TO EDEN SESSIONS 2012
Folk legend Frank Turner and Aussie funnyman Tim Minchin are among the latest stars to be added to this year’s Eden Sessions line-up. Turner will head up a folk-fused day of music (July 1) at Cornwall’s Eden Project, with Sleeping Souls, Bellowhead, Stornoway and local hero Seth Lakeman. Martin Williams, Marketing Director at the Eden [...]
GLOBAL GATHERING LINE-UP ANNOUNCED
Global Gathering returns for another weekend of sunshine, madness and dancing on Friday 27th-Saturday 28th July 2012. Boasting a great dance line-up with headline performances from Tinie Tempah, Chase & Status, Armin van Buuren, Skrillex, DJ Fresh, Magnetic Man and Friendly Fires, the festival will also feature new arenas hosted by UKF Bass Culture, A [...]
BOARDMASTERS ANNOUNCE FIRST ACTS FOR 2012 FESTIVAL
We’ve been keeping this under our hats for weeks now, but finally it’s official – the legend that is Dizzee Rascal and Brit Award winning Ed Sheeran will be headlining this years Boardmasters Music festival at Watergate Bay, Newquay. They will be joined by the likes of Maximo Park, Maverick Sabre and Zane Lowe plus [...]
HARD FI TO HEADLINE LEMONFEST SUMMER FESTIVAL
Indie rockers, Hard Fi, whose hits include ‘Cash Machine’ and ‘Living for the Weekend’ will be headlining Lemonfest 2012, joining Totnes based Cosmo Jarvis and the hotly tipped Ryan Keen on the packed festival line-up. The third installment of the one day music festival will take place on Saturday 30th June, at Newton Abbot racecourse [...]
HOME ACOUSTIC FESTIVAL AT DARTINGTON
The mystery and tradition of the East will meet the best of the West Country this summer when a vibrant line-up of global musicians gather at Dartington Hall, nr Totnes for the third HOME festival (June 22-23, 2012). Following a sell-out inaugural year in 2010, as a one day event, and an even bigger two-day [...]
BOOMTOWN ANNOUNCE NEXT BATCH OF ACTS FOR 2012 FESTIVAL
Second Wave of Heavy-Hitters have been confirmed for BoomTown Fair and they including Caravan Palace, Natty, Dirtyphonics and Jack Beats. They play alongside the previous announced acts including Reel Big Fish, Alborosie and Tanya Stephens. On top of these three top of the bill acts, BoomTown have ensnared the following additions to the line-up: For [...]
MORE ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR GREEN MAN FESTIVAL 2012
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, tUnE-yArDs, of Montreal and King Creosote & Jon Hopkins have all been added to this year’s awesome Green Man Festival line up. The festival, which takes place in Wales’ beautiful Black Mountains from August 17-19, marks Green Man’s 10th birthday. Two great top-secret main stage headliners are yet to be [...]
