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Line-up announcements Live 10/04/10
Fed up with a hundred news stories with individual line-up announcements? Us too, so here they are, as they happen...
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10th April 2010
New event LED kicks off with this wondrous line-ip:
David Guetta // Leftfield // Soulwax // Goldfrapp // Calvin Harris // Friendly Fires // Audio Bullys // Aphex Twin // Tiga // Annie Mac
9th April 2010
Brainlove adds five bands to its line-up
APPLICANTS // SUDDEN WEATHER CHANGE // TRADEMARK // GOLD BLOOD // TRASH KIT
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ATP - "The Nightmare Befor Christmas" announces its first batch of names:
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR // BARDO POND // THE EX // DEERHOOF // TIM HECKER // MIKE WATT (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Stooges) // SCOUT NIBLETT
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Guilfest adds the follwing acts to its fab line-up:
LEVEL 42 // 10cc // THE BLOCKHEADS // THE BLACKOUT
8th April 2010
A load of stuff from Latitude:
THE WATERFRONT STAGE: Daniel Kitson & Gavin Osborn: Stories for the Starlit Sky
CABARET ARENA: The Crack presents: Miss Behave // Phil Kay // Paul Zenon // Kalki Hula Girl // Raymond and Mr. Timpkins // Tom Flanagan // Jon Hicks
POETRY ARENA: John Stammers // THePETEBOX
FILM AND MUSIC ARENA: The Kominas
COMEDY at LATITUDE: Funny Women Awards Showcase // Terry Alderton
OBELISK ARENA: The Unthanks // Race Horses
THE WORD ARENA: Jonathan Jeremiah
6th April 2010
Well I hope you've all recovered form stufing your faces with choclate over the weekend.
Lots of lovliness for RockNess today:
Friday: CRYSTAL CASTLES // DERRICK MAY // MARK KNIGHT // OPTIMO // SUBCULTURE // SENSU // HIGH CONTRAST // A SKILLZ // FRIDGE MAGNETS // LUCA
Saturday?: TINIE TEMPAH // ALABAMA 3 // FREESTYLERS // FERGIE // GARY BECK // EDIT SELECT // VECTOR LOVERS // GOLDIELOCKS // BOOM MONK BEN // PETEBOX // B-TONE // TANGO IN THE ATTIC // STARSMITH // THE CORONAS
Sunday: BLONDIE // THE MACCABEES // NORMAN JAY // BARRY ASHWORTH // DAVID E SUGAR // DANANANANAYKROYD // FENECH SOLER // BENKI BOKO // VENDOR DEFENDOR // GENERAL JIMMY // PMCQ // KIDS ON BRIDGES // JAPANESE POPSTARS
SPECIAL GUEST STAR: KEVIN BRIDGES
1st April 2010
A few acts added the the fab 2000trees festival:
Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit // Errors // Twin Atlantic // Sonic Boom Six // Left Side Brain // Goldheart Assembly // Sparrow & the Workshop // Emily Breeze // Urusen.
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The Garden Festival in Coatia have the following announcment to make:
Rob da Bank // Killer Whale (The Arthur Russell Project) // 2020 Soundsystem // Qool DJ Marv // Metro Area (Darshan Jesrani) // The Revenge // Harri and Domenic // Seth Troxler // Jamie Jones // Sebo K // Floating Points // Filthy Dukes // Cuban Brothers // Alex from Tokyo and many more.
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Latitude adds these chaps to it's line-up:
LAURA MARLING // HOCKEY // CORINNE BAILEY RAE // HERE WE GO MAGIC // MUMFORD & SONS // SWEET BILLY PILGRIM // KASSIDY // GIRLS // NADINE SHAH // KURRAN AND THE WOLFNOTES // MATTHEW P
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The wonderful Big Chill finally gves up its goods:
20:20 Soundsystem // Alice Russell // Andreya Triana // Andy Weatherall // Appleblim // Ashley Beedle & Darren Morris Present MAVIS (Live) // Bebel Gilberto // Breakage // Breakestra // Craig Charles Fantasy Funk Band // Crazy P (DJ) // Dâm-Funk // Daniel Wang // DJ Derek // Easy Star All-Stars // El Diablo's Social Club // Foreign Beggars // Futureboogie // Gilles Peterson // Greg Wilson // Henrik Schwarz // Hospital Records presents… High Contrast // London Electricty // Danny Byrd // Netsky // Joker // Kelis // Kruder and Dorfmeister // Layo and Bushwacka! // Little Dragon // M.I.A. // Mad Professor // Magnetic Man // Martyn // Massive Attack // Matthew Herbert's One Club // Mr Scruff // N-Type // Nicole Conti Jazz Combo // Norman Jay // PBR Streetgang // Phenomenal Handclap Band // Plan B // Redlight // Roots Manuva // Roy AyersvSeth Troxler & Jamie Jones b2b // Smoove and Turrell // Starsmith // Taylor McFerrin // Tensnake // Terry Callier // The Black Seeds // The Bug (Live) // The Heatwave // The Shoes // Theo Parrish // Tinie Tempah // Toddla T with Serocee // Top Shelf Jazz // Wax Tailor // Zero 7 (DJs)
31st March 2010
Kendal Calling get into the mix today with this announcement:
CALVIN HARRIS // WILD BEASTS // THE FUTUREHEADS // OK GO // DUB PISTOLS ON MAIN STAGE!
PLUS: EROL ALKAN // DJ YODA // PLUMP DJ’S // HIGH CONTRAST // SCRATCH PERVERTS // ELITE FORCE // JUSTIN ROBERTSON // DANNY BYRD / DOORLY // ESKIMO TWINS // EMALKAY // PEOPLE GET REAL // RICH REASON // KEN EVIL // ASH HOWELL // CRAIG CHARLES FUNK & SOUL SHOW // LANCASHIRE HOTPOTS
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The excellent Standon Calling announces the following:
Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo Liars // Efterklang // The Phenomenal Handclap Band // The Phantom Band // Clock Opera // Sound of Rum // Delirium Tremens // Yearner Babies // Gilles Peterson // These New Puritans // Fucked Up // Pantha du Prince // Delorean // Esben and the Witch // Gold Panda // Factory Floor // Egyptian Hiphop // Bo Ningen // Summer Camp // North Atlantic Oscillation // The Megaphonic Thrift // Revere // The Violet May // Tom Ravenscroft // Mr Fogg // White Heat DJs // God Don’t Like It DJs // A Hawk And A Hacksaw // Joe Gideon and the Shark // Anna Calvi // The Ruby Suns // Eddy Temple Morris // Dave Haslam // Jagz Kooner // Radioproof // Tim Fanucci // CantMixWontMixShdntMixDontMix // Plants and Animals // Gabby Young and other Animals // Anthony Joseph and the Spasm Band // Erland and the Carnival // Jesca Hoop // The Fabulous Penetrators // Fran and Josh // Pica Pica // Tristram
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Bestival has the following exciting acts:
GREG WILSON // JACK BEATS // JOY ORBISON // BETH JEANS HOUGHTON // JAMIE WOON // UNICORN KID // JAGUAR SKILLS // BEARDYMAN // CHARLI XCX & CALLUM NEGUS FANCEY (LET'S GO CRAZY PROMOTER) PLUS EVEN MORE LIVE MUSIC FROM: Steve Mason // New Young Pony Club // Darwin Deez // Mount Kimbie // Errors // Chrome Hoof // Silver Columns // Rox // Muchuu AND DJ SETS FROM: Zero 7 (DJ Set) // Tensnake // Disco Bloodbath // DJ Hojo Hits and the Sunday Best Forum Allstars // King Roc - PLUS: La Roux Is This Year's Fantasy Fancy Dress Judge
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Oxegen gives you these bad-boys:
DIZZEE RASCAL // JULIAN CASABLANCAS // LAURA MARLING // JAMIE T // EARTH WIND & FIRE // GROOVE ARMADA // THE BLACK KEYS THE CRIBS // CHASE & STATUS // THE STRANGLERS // FOX AVENUE
30th March 2010
Germany's Melt serves up this little lot:? 1000 Robota | The Big Pink | Bonaparte | Danger (live) | Darwin Deez | Delphic | Dirty Projectors | Douster | Edu K | Friendly Fires | Goldfrapp | Daniel Haaksman | Health | Hercules And Love Affair | Holy Ghost | Hurts | Jamie T | Johnossi | Kele | Kings Of Convenience | Kode 9 vs. Martyn | Jamie Lidell | Midlake | Miike Snow | Ewan Pearson | Shout Out Louds | Skate | Tiefschwarz | Tommie Sunshine | Tiga | Martina Topley-Bird | Yeasayer
They will be joined by:? A-Trak | Matias Aguayo & Band | Ellen Allien | An Horse | Ata | Black Rose (Henrik Schwarz & Jesse Rose live) | Blood Red Shoes | Booka Shade | Boris | Bratze | Chromeo | Carl Craig feat. Mike Banks | Chris Cunningham | Clues | Crookers | Delphic | Marcel Dettmann | dOP | Egotronic | Fake Blood | Fred Falke live | Marcel Fengler | Roman Flügel | Foals | Four Tet | Frittenbude | Sascha Funke | Get Well Soon | Hemmann & Kaden live | Nick Höppner | Ja, Panik | Jackmaster | Jamie XX | Jamaica | Markus Kavka | Ben Klock | Oliver Koletzki | Monika Kruse| Lindstrøm & Christabelle | Mala | Massive Attack | Miike Snow Modeselektor feat. Bonaparte live | ND Baumecker | Norman Nodge | Pantha Du Prince | DJ Pete | Popof live | Post War Years | Prosumer | Riton | Saalschutz | Schlachthofbronx | DJ Shadow | Shed live | Sinden | Steffi | Die Sterne | Tama Sumo | Matthias Tanzmann | Tobias Thomas | Tocotronic | Two Door Cinema Club | The Very Best | Ricardo Villalobos | Joris Voorn live | Wareika | WhoMadeWho | The XX
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Awesome - check this out from Pukklepop:
Iron Maiden // Queens Of The Stone Age // Placebo // 2manydjs // The Prodigy // Soulwax // Blink-182 // The Kooks // Jónsi // Boys Noize // Limp Bizkit // The Flaming Lips // Pendulum // Mumford & Sons // NOFX // Goldfrapp // Diplo // Fake Blood // White Lies // Major Lazer // Richie Hawtin presents Plastikman live // Hot Chip // Digitalism // Magnetic Man // Gojira // Noisia // D.I.M. // Parkway Drive // The Low Anthem // Au Revoir Simone // Boris Dlugosch // Four Tet // Switch // Djedjotronic // Ill Nino // These New Puritans // OK Go // Les Petits Pilous live // Nero // Martyn // High Contrast // Caspa & MC Rod Azlan // Benny Benassi // Beach House // Housemeister // Kylesa // Lonelady // Sleepy Sun // Speech Debelle // Joker & MC Nomad // Renaissance Man // Jack Beats // General Fiasco // Cymbals Eat Guitars // Aeroplane // Jakwob // Two Door Cinema Club // L-VIS 1990 // Megafaun // Riva Starr // Ou Est Le Swimming Pool and many more…
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DOVES // WILD BEASTS // F CK BUTTONS // GIRLS // STEVE MASON all join the The Green Man line-up.
Full line-up so far...
Alasdair Roberts // An Horse // Bear In Heaven // Beirut // Billy Bragg // Caitlin Rose // Cass McCombs // Darwin Deez // Doves // Egyptian Hip Hop // Erland & The Carnival // Field Music // Fionn Regan // First Aid Kit // Flaming Lips // F ck Buttons // Girls // Henry's Funeral Shoe // Jack Northover // Je Suis Animal // Joanna Newsom // John Smith // Lone Lady // Lone Wolf // Matthew and the Atlas // Megafaun // Memory Tapes // Mountain Man // Neon Indian // O.Children // Pete Greenwood // Silver Columns // Simone Felice // Sleepy Sun // St Just Vigilantes // Steve Mason // The Smoke Fairies // The Unthanks // The Wave Pictures // These New Puritans // Voice Of The Seven Thunders // Wild Beasts
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Moseley Folk Festival:
Donovan // Johnny Flynn // The High Llamas // Alasdair Roberts // The Low Anthem // The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain // Turin Brakes // The Divine Comedy // Fyfe Dangerfield and Erland & The Carnival.
These tickets are well worth the money.....
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Dot to Dot adds to their list of fab acts:
WILD BEASTS // FIONN REGAN // FIELD MUSIC // LIGHTS // THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE // DISASTER / ROX // JOHNNY FOREIGNER // DEAD CONFEDERATE // DAN SARTAIN
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Ok, so Reading and Leeds announce their line-up:
All Time Low // Arcade Fire // Band of Horses // Biffy Clyro // Billy Talent // Blink 182 // Crystal Castles // Cypress Hill // Delphic // Dizzee Rascal // Enter Shikari // Foals // Frank Turner // Gaslight Anthem // Gogol Bordello // Guns N' Roses // Kele // Klaxons // LCD Soundsystem // Limp Bizkit // Lostprophets // Modest Mouse // Mumford and Sons // NOFX // Paramore // Pendulum // Phoenix // Queens of the Stone Age // The Big Pink // The Cribs // The Drums // The Libertines // The Maccabees // Two Door Cinema Club // We Are Scientists // Weezer // Yeasayer // You Me At Six
Here's the Libertines playing at Reading back in 2003
29th March 2010
Future Music announces its programme:
Ryoji Ikeda - test pattern [live set] // Mika Vainio [live] // Konono No.1 [live] // Bass Clef [live] // Jon K // Ross Adams // Plaid // Synnøve Persen // Omar Souleyman [live] // Mark Ernestus & Paul St. Hilaire // King Midas Sound [live] // Demdike Stare [live] // Andy Votel // Conor Thomas // Moldover [live] // Atau & Adam [live] // Grum // Starsmith // MAY68 [live] // Made in China // Oscar Wildstyle // L-Vis 1990 // Roska // Oneman // Dusk & Blackdown // Kyle Hall // meandyou. DJ's // The Hacker // Ali Renault [live] // Peter Mangalore // Musclehead // Boomkat presents - with Special Guests
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Lounge on the Farm are having it this year with this delectable lot:
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas // Toots & The Maytals // DJ Yoda // Courtney Pine // Fionn Regan // Kitty // Daisy & Lewis // Tunng // The Crazy World of Arthur Brown..... plus many more
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Creamfields had a little announcement for us over the weekend:
Satruday
ALAN HARTLEY // ALEX METRIC // ANDY C // ANDY GEORGE // ANTHONY PROBYN // ARMIN VAN BUUREN // AUDIO BULLYS // BENGA // CASPA // CMWMSMDM // CROOKERS // CRYSTAL FIGHTERS LIVE // DAVID GUETTA // DEADMAU5 // DEAN ORAM ON DRUMS // DJ ELLESSE // DJ MEHDI // DOM CHUNG // EDDIE HALLIWELL PRESENTS ED-IT // ERIC PRYDZ // EROL ALKAN // FENECH SOLER LIVE // FERRY CORSTEN // FRICTION // FUNK D'VOID // GARETH EMERY // GARETH WYN // GENERAL JIMMY // GQ, IC3, SP:MC, MAD RUSH // GRAMOPHONEDZIE // H2 // HIGH CONTRAST // HYPE // JAYMO + // JEMMY // JOE & WILL ASK? // JOHN JONES // JOHN O'CALLAGHAN // JOKER // JORIS VOORN // JUDGE JULES // KEN EVIL // KISSY SELL OUT // LADY V ON SAXOPHONE // LEE ELLIS // LOUIS LA ROCHE // LOZ // LUKE CARR // MAD PROFESSOR // MAGDA // MAY68 LIVE // MC DYNAMITE // MIX HELL // MUCKY BEATS // NERO // OCELOT // PETE TONG // PHIL FAVERSHAM // POPOF // PROSTITUTES + POLICEMEN // RICH REASON // RICHIE HAWTIN PRESENTS PLASTIKMAN // ROB CASSON + ANDY CURRIE // ROB H // ROD AZLAN // RUSKO // SARAH LOUISE // SÉBASTIEN LÉGER // SWITCH // THE JAPANESE POPSTARS // TIM OWEN // TOM MIDDLETON // WEZ CLARKE
And Sunday...
A*S*Y*S // AFRO JACK // ALAN HARTLEY // ALEX KIDD // AN21 // ANDY MAC // ANDY NORMAN // ANDY WHITBY // ANNE SAVAGE // ANNIE MAC // AXWELL // BENJI BOKO // BOOTEK LIVE // CALVIN HARRIS // DADA LIFE // DEAD AUDIO BOY // DEAN ORAM ON DRUMS // DEAN RIGG // DIRTY SOUTH // DUBFIRE // DUTCH MASTER // EVIL NINE // GOLDIEROCKS // HERNAN CATTANEO // JAMES ZABIELA // KIM FAI // KUTSKI B2B // LADY V ON SAXOPHONE // LAIDBACK LUKE // LEFTFIELD // LISA LASHES // MAJOR LAZER // MARCO CAROLA // MAX VANGELLI // MR PAUL // MS DYNAMITE // NICK WARREN // PAUL VAN DYK // RARESH // RASCAL // RIVA STARR // SAM CANNON // SASHA // SEBASTIAN INGROSSO // SHOWTEK LIVE // STEPHANIE JAY // STEVE ANGELLO // STYLE OF EYE // SVEN VÄTH // THE PETEBOX LIVE // THE SUBS LIVE // THE TEA STREET BAND LIVE // TIËSTO // YOUSEF // ZINC
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Off the Tracks announces 4 additions to its line-up:
The beat // The Ukranians // The Popes // Martin Simpson
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Brighton's The Great Escape has this little lot to add to it's line-up:
The Big Pink // The Walkmen // Fionn Regan // Sunshine Underground // These New Puritans // Reverend Soundsystem // White Rabbits // You Say Party We Say Die! // andsoiwatchyoufromafar // Chapel Club // Harper Simon // Summer Camp // Fenech-Soler // Mount Kimbie // Goldheart Assembly // Feldberg // Tinashe // Born Ruffians // Thomas White // Violens // Jaguar Love // Princeton // Bridezilla // Kid Adrift // Silver Columns // Sharks // Hesta Prynn // The Neat // Dead Wolf Club // Tweak Bird // Final Flash // Samuel and the Dragon // John Talabot
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Lovebox adds these acts to its already fab line-up:
Paloma Faith // Yeasayer // Mystery Jets // Tim Westwood // Holy Ghost // Roxy Music // Grace Jones // Dizzee Rascal
They will be joined by: MARK RONSON AND THE BUSINESS // HOT CHIP // THE MACCABEES // BOOKA SHADE // PEACHES // CHROMEO // CROOKERS // NOISETTES // ELLIE GOULDING // CHASE AND STATUS // RIVA STARR // WILD BEASTS // HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR // PADDED CELL // TINASHE // HOLY GHOST
Hop Farm has some stunning news:
Bob Dylan // Mumford & Sons // Seasick Steve // Peter Doherty // Laura Marling
....we're definitely up for going to this festival - and to get us in the mood (er, sort of) we've dug out this ancient clip of Bob playing the Newport Folk Festival from 1964. if you're unfamiliar with Bob Dylan, we can confirm that his singing voice hasn't improved with age.
26th March 2010
One Love have some additions to their line-up:
Lutan Fyah // Benjamin Zephaniah // Michael Prophet // Soothsayers meets Red Earth Collective // Bo Marley
Latitude makes the folloing announcement:
Florence + The Machine // Belle and Sebastian // Vampire Weekend // The Temper Trap // James // Spoon // Midlake // Dirty Projectors // Frank Turner // Wild Beasts // Noah And The Whale // Yeasayer // Chief // Darwin Deez // Archie Bronson Outfit // Lupen Crook // Active Child (aka Pat Grossi) // Wendy Cope // John Cooper Clarke // Bret Easton Ellis // Arthur Smith // Emo Philips // Ardal O’Hanlon // Rich Hall // Tommy Tiernan
...hang on - didn't they already do this?
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Relentless Boardmasters has this little lot for your listening pleaseure:
Newton Faulkner // Seasick Steve // Xavier Rudd // Plan B // Ou Est Le Swimming Pool // Alan Pownall // Leftfield // Chase and Status Live // Tinie Tempah // Example // French Horn Rebellion // Fenech-Soler // Matthew P
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Relentless NASS announces this bunch.
Bowling for Soup // Hadouken // The Skints // Imperial Leisure // Backbeat Soundsystem // Chase and status Live // Plan B // Tinie Tempah // Wiley // Devlin // Ghetts // ANDY C with MC GQ // NERO and MC JAKEs // FRICTION // DANNY BYRD // CRISSY CRISS // KLIMAX and BENNY MC // CASPA & Rod Azlan // KRAFTY KUTS // JAGUAR SKILLS // KIDDA // TEK-ONE Live // CHARLIE G / FREERANGE DJS // BENNY MC & CRISIS // Qemists Soundsystem // Young Guns // Telegraphs // This City // Plus guest DJ sets from // Goldierocks // Ghost Of A Thousand // Crazy Arm // Chickenhawk // Plus guest DJ sets from // Gallows (Lags) // Howling Les
24th March 2010
Electric Picnic:
ROXY MUSIC // LEFTFIELD // MASSIVE ATTACK // MUMFORD & SONS // LCD SOUNDSYSYTEM // THE FRAMES // IMMELDA MAY // PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED (PIL)/ THE NATIONAL // GIL SCOTT-HERON // THE WATERBOYS // BOOKA SHADE // STEVE EARLE // ADRIAN CROWLEY & much much more...
@frost_ie said: you see the Electric Picnic line up? It's actually not crap for once!
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This year's Berlin Festival treats one of the coolest citys in the world to the following acts:
2manydjs live // Erol Alkan // Atari Teenage Riot // Boys Noize // Caribou // D.I.M. // Djedjotronic // Fever Ray // Gonzales // Herman Düne // Housemeister // LCD Soundsystem // Les Petit Pilous // Peaches´ Lazershow // Port O´Brien // Soulwax // Strip Steve & Das Glow // Superpunk - more to be announced soon!
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Hawkwind // Hadouken // Chase & Status (DJ Set) // Kid Creole & The Coconuts will be joining Orbital // The Human League // Status Quo // N-Dubz // Just Jack. at this year's Guilfest.
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If you do one thing this Summer - go to The Garden Party - check out the line up:
LIVE ACTS: 2020 Soundsystem // Crazy P // Henrik Schwarz // Ichisan & Nakova // Introducing // Killer Whale (The Arthur Russell Project) // Subb-an // Tensnake // The Cuban Brothers
DJ SETS: Adam Regan // Adam Shelton // Alex from Tokyo // Ame // Andy Blake // Bobby Beige // Bonobo // Borka // Christophe (Redux) // Daddy G // Dave Beer // Dave Jarvis // Deano Ferrino // Discomendments // Dixon // DJ Lenny (OPM) // DJ Strangefruit // Dolan Bergin // Dom Chung // El Diablos // El Harvo // Emma Chibuku // Faze Action // Felix Dickinson // Filthy Dukes // Floating Points // Florian Keller // Geddes // Greg Wilson // Harri and Domenic // Horse Meat Disco // Ilija Rudman // James Hillard // James Holroyd // Jamie Jones // Jim Stanton // Jimpster // Joe 90 // Jogarde // Karen P // Kelvin Brown • Kid Bongo // Matty J & Ben Terry (Tirk Records) // Metro Area (Darshan Jesrani) // Mr Scruff // No Fakin DJ's // Ole Smokey // PBR Streetgang // Pete Herbert // Phat Phil Cooper // Qool DJ Marv // Red Rack Em // Rob da Bank // Rub n Tug // Sam Redmore // Sean Brosnan // Sebo K // Seth Troxler // Shur-i-kan // Soul Jazz Sound System // Ste Hodge // Stu Patterson // Terry Farley // The Revenge // The Roller Boys // Thomas Brunner // Tristan Da Cunha // Yam Who?
OK - now visit the site, turn the volume up to ten, close your eyes and feel the smile stretch across your face.
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Some "World" music for Roskilde:
BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA // MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND // ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU
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Summer Sundae's 10th weekender add a load of acts to it line-up:
The Future Heads / The Low Anthem / Tunng / Frightened Rabbit / Turnin Brakes / Los Campesinos! / The Invisible / Fionn Regan / Johnny Flynn And The Sussex Wit / Liam Frost / Errors / Lissie / Isbells / The Megaphonic Thrift / Swimming / Autohype / Rugosa Nevada
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Joining Faithless and Dizzee Rascal at this year's Global Gathering are:
2 Many DJs (LIVE) // Chase & Status (LIVE) // Armin Van Buuren // Carl Cox // Above & Beyond // Eric Prydz // Steve Angello // John Digweed // Sasha // Paul Oakenfold // Booka Shade (Live) // Loco Dice // Sander Van Doorn // Markus Schulz // James Zabiela // Fedde Le Grand // Digitalism // Adam Beyer // Dubfire // Subfocus (Live) // Simian Mobile Disco (DJ Set) // Mark Knight // Joris Voorn Andy C // Sidney Samson // Judge Jules // Fake Blood // Kissy Sell Out // Marco Carola // Gareth Emery // Scratch Perverts // Stanton Warriors // Chuckie // Timo Maas // Goldie // Darren Styles // Caspa // John O’Callaghan // Josh Wink // Funkagenda // Lisa Lashes // Jaguar Skills // Hype // Joker // Count & Sinden // Friction // Guy J // Noisia // Joy Orbison // Shy FX // Zinc // Nero // Spor // Nic Fancuilli // Fabio & Grooverider // Tidy Boys // Geeneus feat Katy B & Tipper // Umek // Jerome Isma-ae // Emalkay // Yousef // Plastician // Simon Patterson // Fresh B2B Brookes Brothers // Hazard // AN21 // N Type // Tall Paul // Sbtrkt // Andy Whitby // Menno De Jong // Nicky Blackmarket // Chris Fortier // Bryan Gee // Jon 00 Fleming // Alex Kidd // Heartless Crew // Kutski // Doorly // Micky Slim // Paul Thomas // Hixxy // Kim Fai // Jon Rundell // Pete Jordan // Mark Eteson // Squad E // Breeze & Re-con // DJ Sy & Chris Unknown // Gammer & Dougal // Kevin Energy // Scott Brown // Joey Riot // Force & Junior // Supreme // Al Storm // Stylus & Audiojunkie // Clodhopper Bubble // Mark H // Garry K
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23rd March 2010
T in the Park has some exciting news for you guys:
Groove Armada // Rodrigo Y Gabriela // Shed Seven // Kate Nash // Chipmunk // We Are Scientists // The Black Keys // Sven Vath // DJ Yoda // Adam Beyer (DJ)
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Download add this little lot to their line-up:
Coheed and Cambria // Airbourne // HIM // Dillinger Escape Plan // Cinderella // Steel Panther // We Are The Fallen // 36 Crazyfists // A Day To Remember // Whitechapel // Hell Yeah // The Blackout // Dommin // Taking Dawn // Job For A Cowboy // Saxon // RATT // Unearth // Lawnmower Deth // Rise To Remain // August Burns Red // Y&T
Here's a clip of Rage playing to hordes of unwashed fans at Reading in 2000 - possibly one of the best festival sets of all time!
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22nd march 2010
The Eden Sessions announce:
Martha Wainright and Paolo Nutini are added to a blockbuster bill alongside Jack Johnson // Mika // Doves // Mumford & Sons // Calvin Harris and Audio Bullys with more to be announced.
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It's all about EXIT festival today - check this little lot out:
The Chemical Brothers // Mika // Placebo // Missy Elliott // David Guetta // Röyksopp // LCD Soundsystem // Pendulum Live // Ricardo Villalobos // Behemoth // Crystal Castles // Suicidal Tendencies // The Exploited // A-Trak // Black Rose (Jesse Rose & Henrik Schwarz) // Boys Noize // Brodinski // Busy P // Crookers // DJ Mehdi // Dirty South // Does It Offend You, Yeah? // Erol Alkan // Foreign Beggars // Hudson Mohawke // Jamaica // Josh Wink // Juvelen // Laidback Luke // Lollobrigida // L-Vis 1990 // Midnight Juggernauts // Moderat live // Obojeni Program // Ost & Kjex live // Ritam Nereda // Riva Starr // SebastiAn // Solomun // The Twelves // We Have Band // Al & The Blackcats // Antenat // Arigo Pentrado // Ashen Epitaph // Awaiting Fear // Bambi Molesters // Bombarder // B King + Andrea // Caligari // Clark // Concrete Sun // Consecration // Citizen X // Dargoron // Dead Trash + Frajle // D-Bridge // Decapitated // Decontrolled // Direct Control + Kalson // Disdained // Dozer, Dr Vokoder // Ex Deo // Gemmy & MC Nomad // Grasshopper // G.U.B // Help Me Jones // High Control // Hitman // Instra:mental & MC:SP // Joker // Ida Engberg // I Divine // If Senses Fear // the Inspector Cluso // Inje // In From the Cold // Iva Starkova // Kawasaki 3p // Killo Killo // Koh // Kolaps // MAD Goya // Metatron // Moment of Clarity // Petrol // Pinch // Punished // Radiolokator // Retro + Vito // Romantic Jurgen // Rustie // Samrt // S.A.R.S // Shortpant Romance // SMUT // SOK 91 // Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team // Space eater // Starsmith // Stuttgart Online // Sweet Sorrow // The Good Guys Live // Tamerlan // Tide // Tibia // Tim Exile // To Moj Tim // Toy Corner // Tesla Boy // Vehementer // Veliki Prezir // Vox Populi // Welicoruss // Wannabe A Star // Zea
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One Love has a few additions to their line-up:
Lutan Fyah // Michael Prophet // Lloyd Brown // Tippa Irie // Gappy Ranks // Earl Sixteen // Soothsayers // Mafia and Fluxy // Bo Marley // Vincent Nap // DJ Syte // The Uplifter // Mellow Star // The Stints // Hot Dub Bikini Party // Dub Heart // Dub Mafia // Shedcore // Zimbaremabwe Mbira Vibes
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Gorillaz are set to play at this year's Roskilde... can't wait for that one.
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Sidmouth Folk Week has a staggering line-up this year:
Show of Hands // Eliza Carthy & Saul Rose // Julie Fowlis, Heidi Talbot with John McCusker and Boo Hewerdine // Breabach // KAN // Brian Finnegan // Aidan O'Rourke // Andy Cutting (with special guest June Tabor) // Nic Jones // Martin Simpson // Pete Coe // Jim Moray // Jackie Oates & Belinda O’Hooley // Faustus // Nancy Kerr & James Fagan // Jon Boden // Sam Carter // John Jones and Ray “Chopper” Cooper // Alistair Anderson // Coope Boyes and Simpson // Hannah James & Sam Sweeney // Rachael McShane // Spiro // The Wilsons // Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner // Roger Watson // Brian Peters and Lucy Kearney & Jonny Farrell // Koshka // Saduto // Daimh // Bellowhead // Shooglenifty // Salsa Celtica // Cordelia’s Dad // Bedlam // Tickled Pink // Polkaworks // The Committee Band // Chalktown // Mr Gubbins’ Bicycle // The Tiggerz (featuring Simon Care and Laurel Swift) // Blowzabella // Toothless Mary // Spiers and Boden Ceilidh // The Bristol Players // Stick Shift // The Watch // Belshazzar’s Feast // Adam Hughes // Mike Courthold // Michael Barraclough // John Howson // Sidmouth Traditions // Sheila Stewart MBE // Four Star Trio // The Orchard family // Vic and Viv Legg // Jim Eldon // The Watchorns // Alistair Anderson // The Instep Research Team
19th March 2010
The Wonderful Wickerman festival has just announced their line-up:
Ocean Colour Scene // The Saw Doctors // The Futureheads // Codeine Velvet Club // The Fratelli’s front man Jon Lawlor // The Grass Mountain Hobos // The Undertones // Ed Tudorpole // Back to the Planet // Strawberry Blondes // Doll and the Kicks.
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2000trees opens its doors early to a Very select few and treats them to this little lot:
The Brute Chorus // Six Nation State // Lets Tea Party // Wojtek Godzisz // Che // John Crampton and Howard James Kenny.
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Glade adds the following acts to is already storming line up:
Jeff Mills // Magnetic Man // Green Velvet // Autechre // Krafty Kuts vs. A Skillz // Holy Ghost! // Boy Better Know // Skream b2b Benga // DJ Zinc // Seth Troxler // Craig Richards // Clark // Plastician // Fuck Buttons // The Field // Wolf + Lamb // X-Press 2 // Avalon // DJ Friction // London Elektricity // 65daysofstatic
Want to get into Glade for free this year?
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Maverick has a treat in store for anyone in Suffolk in early July:
KIM RICHEY // THE ORBITSUNS // DAYNA KURTZ // BRIGITTE DEMEYER // CHRIS SCRUGGS // HANK WANGFORD // STEPHANIE LAMBRING // CHRIS COOK // PHIL LEE // LAST TRAIN HOME // PETER COOPER & ERIC BRACE // AMANDA SHIRES // ROD PICOTT // POLICE DOG HOGAN // DREW NELSON // THE GOOD INTENTIONS // NORTON MONEY // BRIGITTE DE MEYER // RAYBURN ANTHONY // SUZI RAGSDALE // HUNGRYTOWN // DAVE ALLEN // ROOSEVELT BANDWAGON // THE RAGGED STRING BAND
17th March 2010
JÓNSI (SIGUR RÓS) joins the Bestival line-up and their Thursday night 'BACK TO THE PHUTURE' party featuring HEAVEN 17 should get evenryone properly in the mood to party the weekend away.
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GROOVE ARMADA headline this year's The Great Escape. They will be joined by:
Blood Red Shoes // The Slits // The Fiery Furnaces // Everything Everything // I Blame Coco // Egyptian Hip Hop // Detroit Social Club // Daisy Dares You // Surfer Blood // General Fiasco // Theophilus London // Frankie & The Heartstrings // Alessi's Ark // Ganglians // The Pack A.D // Warpaint // Art Vs Science // The Agitator // Citadels // Gold Panda // Goldhawks // Trembling Bells // Here We Go Magic // Dan Smith // Vuk // Frontier Ruckus // Rural Alberta Advantage // The Crookes // Othello Woolf // Polly Mackey & The Pleasure Principle // Ramona // Rich Aucoin // Rubber Kiss Goodbye // Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees // Sophie Madeline // The Charkas // Wax Fang // Artisan Guns // Lights Go Blue // Manna // MAY68 // An Emerald City // Ingrid Olava
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Roskilde add Wild Beasts and Kasabian to their storming line up - this festival just gets better and better.
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The Acoustic Festival of Great Britain plans to entertain you lucky lot with these guys:
Donovan // Levellers // The Blues Band // Kate Rusby // Sandi Thom // Barbara Dickson // Leatherat // 3 Daft Monkeys // AzizvPapa George // Ezio // The Hamsters (1st time ever UNplugged) // Amy Wadge // Henry Priestman // Ed Tudor Pole // Pierre Bensusan // Justin Sullivan & Dean White (New Model Army) // Little Johnny England // Amy Wadge // The Coal Porters // The Monster Ceilidh Band // The Outcast Band // ortoPilot // The Monte Dons // Dog Days of Summer // The Beetroot Kings // Darren Poyzer // Kristy Gallacher .....& Many Many More
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16th March 2010
Blissfileds have just busted out the following:
Saturday Head-liner TBA
Band of Skulls // Ou Est le Swimming Pool (Friday Headline) // Dub Pistols // Fenech-Soler // Subgiant // James Yuill // Charlotte Hatherley // Beans on Toast // Chris T-T // Imperial Leisure // Randomer (Med School) // Subsource // Ryan O’Reilly // Kill It Kid // Birdpen // Turbowolf // ?The Jessie Rose Trip // Rebel Control // Echaskech // The Ashbies // Lanterns on the Lake // Malpas // Montage Populaire // Polly and the Billets Doux // Headstone Down // Mark Johnson // Kingman Country // The Red Stripe Music Awards Winner // Sean Brosnan // Sombrero Sound System // Olly Salter // Benzo // Marcus Muktarsingh // DJ Samson // Little Chief // Ally Wolf and Big O // Bloody Awful Poetry // Chess Club // The Bandangos DJ // DJ Chix // Kozmik Ken?………more to be confirmed!
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In celebration of 25 years of techno, Stop Making Sense is set to entertain anyone wise enough to travel to Croatia with the following artists:
LIVE: THE VERY BEST // DJANGO DJANGO // NATHAN FAKE // MATIAS AGUAYO // SON OF DAVE // WBEEZA // THE WORM // JOANA & THE WOLF // FRAN AND JOSH // LATIN DUB SOUND SYSTEM // LONGJON LA FLECHA // THE LOOSE FIT
DJ’S: CARL CRAIG // JUAN ATKINS // THEO PARRISH // FRIENDLY FIRES (DJ SET) // RADIOCLIT // TOY SELECTAH // OPTIMO // BENJI B // PATRICE SCOTT // KEITH WORTHY // KYLE HALL // ALLEZ ALLEZ // ISA GT // MARK E // REBOLLEDO // CHRIS COCO // RICHARD NORRIS // TAMA SUMO // JAMES PRIESTLEY // GILES SMITH // RUSS JONES // CAL JADER // SENSU // LAKUTI // GIRLCORE // FACT DJS // ALI TILLETT // ROB SUMMERHAYES // GRINGO DA PARADA // COUNT CHOCULA // TCHICKY AL DENTE // LEON LACE
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2000tress festival is set to blow everyone away with this bunch:
TREE HOUSE (main stage):
Headline acts: Frank Turner // The Subways
Others: Bombay Bicycle Club // Metronomy // 65daysofstatic // And So I Watch You From Afar // The Xcerts // Crazy Arm // Maybeshewill // Three Trapped Tigers // Flashguns // Skeletons and the Empty Pockets
LEAF LOUNGE (second stage):
Headline acts: Kill It Kid // Your Twenties
Others: Little Fish // Orphans & Vandals // Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun // The Dawn Chorus // Chris T-T // David Goo Band // The Tailors // Roundstone // OST // Vessels // Midnight Mile // A Genuine Freakshow // Lo-fi Culture Scene // Cats and Cats and Cats
GREENHOUSE (third stage):
Dan Heaver // Ben Marwood // Jake Morley // Shoes and Socks Off // Men Diamler // Daniel Conti // Side-step
DJ's, Aspen Sails // Oxygen Thief // May Fly Trio // Joe Summers // Ruth Bewsey // Carlos and the Jackal // Every Other Ones
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Peace & Love in Sweden has just announced this amazing lot.... SWEET!
Alice in Chains // D-A-D // Europe // Imperial State Electric // Jay-Z // John Fogerty // Kent // Kim Wilde // Mando Diao // Mastodon // Mew // NOFX // Patti Smith // Robyn // Sick Of It All // Tech N9ne // The Ark // The Hives // The Kooks // Them Crooked Vultures // Vitalic // Wolfmother
Here's a quick video of Mötley Crüe at last year's Peace & Love.
10th March 2010
Brighton's The Great Escape announces these acts:
Wild Beasts // Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster // Band Of Skulls // Stornoway // Lonelady // White Rose Movement // Seun Kuti (Brighton Festival Co-Promotion) // Canterbury // The Boy Who Trapped The Sun // Summer Camp // Think About Life // Jim Jones Revue // Codeine Velvet Club // Hook & The Twin // Young Guns // John & Jehn // Lucky Soul // Birds Of Tokyo // Chicken Hawk // Chief // Lauren Pritchard // Kassidy // North Atlantic Oscillation // Bo-Ningen // Larissa McKay // John Smith
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Roskilde adds this little lot to is fantastic line up:
BEACH HOUSE // DIRTY PROJECTORS // HEALTH
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Latitude treats you with the following:
Music
Florence & The Machine // Belle & Sebastian // Vampire Weekend // The National // The XX // Grizzly Bear // Empire of the Sun // The Maccabees // Rodrigo y Gabriela // Charlotte Gainsbourg // The Horrors
Comedy
Emo Philips // Ardal O'Hanlon // Rich Hall // Tommy Tiernan // Marcus Brigstocke // Arthur Smith // Richard Herring // Russell Kane // Holly Walsh // Sara Pascoe // Seann Walsh // Kevin Bridges // Charlie Baker // Doc Brown // Mark Olver // Joe Bor // Robin Ince // Adam Buxton // Rich Fulcher // Laura Solon // Jonny Sweet // Pappy's // Idiots of Ants // Cardinal Burns // Golden Lizard
Theatre
Royal Opera House // Royal Shakespeare Company // The Opera Group and London Sinfonietta // Bush Theatre // Lyric Hammersmith // Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse // Northern Stage and Company of Angels // English Touring Theatre // Les Enfants Terribles // Soho Theatre // nabokov // Red Shift Theatre Company // Shatterbox Theatre Company // Mouth to Mouth
Film and Music
Mark Lamarr // Geno Washington // The Jum Jones Revue // Riz MC MICroscope // James Rhodes // Modern Toss
Literature
The School of Life // Word Theatre // 5x15 // Bret Easton Ellis // Adam Foulds // Natasha Walter // Jon Ronson // Jon McGregor // Samantha Harvey // Philippa Perry // Jane Bussmann // Anthony Cartwright // Louise Stern
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Blues on the Farm announces this bunch:
Jay Tamkin band // Hokie Joint // Popa Chubby // Primo Blue // Geoff Achison & The Souldiggers // Connie Lush // The Hoax // The Stumble // Gypsy Fire
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Vicki Park's Field Day has the following:
Phoenix // Amiina // Beth Jeans Houghton // Caribou // Chilly Gonzales // Esben & the Witch // Flower–Corsano Duo // Gold Panda // Hypnotic Brass Ensemble // James Holden // Joker & MC Nomad // Max Tundra // Memory Tapes // Mouse On Mars // Pantha Du Prince // Silver Apples // and many more...
8th March 2010
Underage returns this year with the following act:
MIA // ANNIE MAC PRESENTS // TINCHY STRYDER // CASPA Feat. MC ROD AZLAN // CHASE & STATUS // ELLIE GOULDING // EGYPTIAN HIP HOP // DAISY DARES YOU // GOLD PANDA // HADOUKEN! // LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION // GENERAL FIASCO // LATE OF THE PIER SOUND SYSTEM // NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB // JAKWOB // IS TROPICAL // ROX // STORNOWAY // SUB FOCUS // TINIE TEMPAH // UNICORN KID
5th March 2010
Rockness announces their Friday headliners: PENDULUM & DAVE CLARK
They will be joined by the following artisits:
FATBOY SLIM * LEFTFIELD * THE STROKES / VAMPIRE WEEKEND / DOVES / IAN BROWN / 2 MANY DJ'S / CHASE & STATUS / FRIENDLY FIRES / ENTER SHIKARI . HADOUKEN / BOYS NOIZE / SOULWAX / ANNIE MAC / ZANE LOWE / ROB DA BANK / BOOKASHADE / THE BLOODY BEETROOTS / VITALIC / AEROPLANE / PLAN B / DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP / THE CUBAN BROTHERS / THE DUB PISTOLS / JAPANESE POPSTARS
Plus the first ever Scottish show by: CLUB 75 (XAVIER DE ROSNAY (JUSTICE) / CASSIUS / DJ MEHDI / BUSY P)
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The mulitfaceted Dot to Dot festival announces it's first batch of bands for this years event:
Mystery Jets / Ellie Goulding (Bristol / Notts) / Zane Lowe / Los Campesinos! / Beach House (Notts / Manchester) / Twisted Wheel / Liars / Blood Red Shoes / Washed Out / Egyptian Hip Hop / Jakwob / Chapel Club / Daisy Dares You / Lonelady / Doorly
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Heineken Open’er Festival
Pearl Jam, Kasabian, Massive Attack, Pavement, Hot Chip, The Hives, Mando Diao, Gorillaz Sound System and Tinariwen.
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Shhhh... The Secret Garden Party have something to tell us:
Gorillaz Sound System (DVJ) / Mercury Rev / Marina & The Diamonds / Skatalites / The Jessie Rose Trip / The Whip / Kate Walsh / David Rodigan / Bellaruche / Golden Filter / Apples/ Kid Bombardos / Charli XCX/ Death Metal Disco Scene / Pearl and The Puppets / The Crookes /Panda Su / more to announce...
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Bilbao BBK Live adds the following awesome bands to its incredible line up: Faith No More / Alice in Chains / Paul Weller / Skunk Anansie / Gogol Bordello / Dropkick Murphys / Volbeat / Rammstein / Pearl Jam / Manic Street Preachers / Slayer, Bullet for my Valentine / Rise Against / Jet / Coheed and Cambria / Rise to Fall and Capsula
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One Love line up includeds:
Luciano & Mikey General / ADHDJS Adrian Sherwood / Ambassadeurs Arkital Sounds / Aruba Red Bush Chemists and King General / Channel One Sound System feat: Mikey Dread and Ras Kayleb / Chris B Culture Hi Fi Daddy Colonel / David Rodigan Defcon 1 Don Letts / Dub Rockers Dubmatix / Earl Gateshead Horace Martin / Iration Steppas Ital Vital Kenny Knots / King Tubby's Hi Fi Kosine Lowki / Mungos Hi Fi Muscle Head Nereus Joseph Nick Manassah Papa Levi Radical Guru Reggae / Roast Roger Robin Roots Brothers Ruben Da Silva Saxon Sound System / Senior Sandy Trevor Sax Tribe Vibe / Trojan Sound System / Twilight Circus Dub Sound System / Unity Hi FI University of Dub/ Urban Sedated Records Vibronics
4th March 2010
The big news today is that Alice in Chains will be playing at Denmark's Roskilde festival. That will be incredible - they are an awseome live band. Check out the video below taken from Rock an Ring a few years ago.
V Festival adds Calvin Harris and the Doves to their expanding line up. Tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow from variuos outlets.
Summer Sundae tepmts us to join them with the following: TINCHY STRYDER / THE GO! TEAM / MUMFORD & SONS / LOCAL NATIVES / THE FALL / LAURA VEIRS / THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND / THE WHIP / WOODENTOPS / GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY / LOU RHODES / ERLAND AND THE CARNIVAL / A GENUINE FREAKSHOW / THE WAVE PICTURES
End of the Road is set to entertain it audienc with the hilarious Robin Ince
3rd March 2010
M.I.A, Paul Weller, LCD Soundsystem, Robyn, Motopsycho, The Cumshots an Casiokids are all added to the bill for Norways, fabulous Oya festival.
Oya's line-up currently looks like this:
Pavement, Iggy & The Stooges, Tony Allen, Big Boi, La Roux, The XX, Girls, Fools Gold, Raekwon, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Gaslight Anthem, Major Lazer, Lindstrøm & Christabelle, Converge, Surfer Blood, Serena Maneesh, Altaar, CCTV, Lidolido, Navigators, John Olav Nilsen Og Gjengen, Obliteration, Djerv, Susanne Sundfør, Purified in Blood, The Megaphonic Thrift, Blood Command, Kråkesølv, Pow Pow, Lucy Swann, Mhoo
Seasick Steve and Newton Faulkner will be joining Leftfield as headliners for the Relentless Boardmasters festival in August.
If you'e yet to see Seasick Steve live then you are in for a real treat - here he is performing in the NME tent at Reading a couple of years ago:
2 March 2010
Good news Pop fans, V festival announces their chart-tastic line-up:
Kings of Leon, Stereophonics, Paul Weller, Editors, Courteeners, Passion Pit, David, Cheryl Cole, Kasabian, Faithless, The Kooks, Paolo Nutini, Madness, Skunk Anansie, Pixie Lott, Prodigy, Pet shop Boys
Florence and the Machine, White Lies, Scouting For Girls, The Temper Trap, Amy MacDonald, Newton Faulkner, Shed Seven, Paloma Faith, Plan B, Mika, Groove Armada, Goldfrapp, Chase and Status, La Roux, The Charlatans, Sugababes, Ellie Goulding, Kate Nash, Imogen Heap
- Alabama 3 headline Off the Tracks
Joanna Newsom joins the Flaming Lips as headliners of the Green Man festival.
Their impressive line-up includes: Alasdair Roberts, An Horse, Beirut, Billy Bragg, Cass McCombs, Field Music, Fionn Regan, First Aid Kit, Henry's Funeral Shoe, Jack Northover, Matthew and the Atlas, Megafaun, O.Children, Pete Greenwood, St Just Vigilantes, The Unthanks, Voice Of The Seven Thunders
26 February 2010
- Lily Allen has joined the line-up for Wireless festival in London's Hyde Park
- 2000 Trees festival has a slew of confirmations: Bombay Bicycle Club, Metronomy, Crazy Arm, Kill it Kid, Maybeshewill and The Xcerts
- Roxy Music have been announced for this year's Bestival
25 February 2010
- Fatboy Slim and Armin van Buuren are going to be headling SW4 this year - Japandroids lead the confirmations for Roskilde this week, along with Killswitch Engage and Circle - After a few names were revealed earlier this week, a longer list of confirmations for The Camden Crawl has been revealed: Teenage Fanclub, The Drums, Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip, Babybird , Billy Childish, Cornershop, Delays, Speech Debelle The Sunshine Underground , Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Alex Metric (Live), Art Vs. Science, Autokratz, Best Coast, Betty And The Werewolves, Billy Vincent, Casio Kids, The Chapman Family, Chew Lips, Chickenhawk, Cosmo Jarvis Dead Meadow, Drums Of Death, Eliza Doolittle, Emily Barker, Gold Panda, Holly Miranda The Hundred In The Hands, Invasion, Jamie Woon, Kasms, Kurran And The Wolfnotes Leafcutter John, Lone Lady, The Lost Levels, Male Bonding, Nat Johnson & The Figureheads Polar Bear, Pulled Apart By Horses, Racehorses, Samuel And The Dragon, Sharks, Smoke Fairies, Todd, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Tubelord, Turbowolf, Veronica Falls and Wild Palms 23 February 2010
- First up this Tuesday, Seth Lakeman has been announced as the Sunday night headliner at Wychwood
- The first acts for The Camden Crawl have been confirmed as: Lonelady, Kurran & The Wolfnotes, Race Horses, Delays, Polar Bear and Dead Meadow.
Read our exclusive interview with Crawl founder Lisa Paulon
- Legendary guitarist Richard Thompson is curating this year's Meltdown Festival at London's Southbank Centre
- Eminem and Jay-Z are headlining T in the Park along with Muse. Other acts announced today include: 30 Seconds To Mars, Black Eyed Peas, Biffy Clyro, Black Mountain, Broken Social Scene, Calvin Harris, Carl Cox, David Guetta, Dirty Projectors, Dizzee Rascal, Ellie Goulding, Empire of the Sun, Erol Alkan, Faithless, Fake Blood, Florence & The Machine, Four Tet, Goldfrapp, Hot Chip, Gossip, John Mayer, La Roux, Mumford & Sons, Mayer Hawthorne and The County, Newton Faulkner, Paolo Nutini, Rise Against, Skunk Anansie, Slam, Stereophonics, Ritchie Hawtin's Plastikman, The Cribs, The Coral, The Courteeners, The Proclaimers, The Prodigy, The Stranglers, The Temper Trap, The View, Two Door Cinema Club, Vampire Weekend, Wolfmother
- RockNess have continued adding great names to their line-up, with Vampire Weekend, Doves, Ian Brown, Soulwax, Enter Shikari and Friendly Fires
- Lovebox have announced their first bands: Roxy Music, Grace Jones, Dizzee Rascal, Hot Chip, Mark Ronson & The Business and Empire Of The Sun
- A busy summer for Eminem... he's playing Oxegen as well, along with Muse, Kasabian, Jay-Z, The Black Eyed Peas, The Prodigy, Florence and The Machine, Paolo Nutini, Faithless, Stereophonics, David Guetta, Vampire Weekend, John Mayer, Calvin Harris, Newton Faulkner, Mumford & Sons, Hot Chip, Gossip, The Temper Trap, Empire Of The Sun, Goldfrapp, La Roux, Wolfmother, Rise Against, The Coral, Broken Social Scene, Ellie Goulding, Two Door Cinema Club, Armand Van Helden, Steve Angello, Simian Mobile Disco, Erol Alkan, Steve Aoki, A-Trak and Aeroplane. Isn't that the T in the Park line-up as well?
22 February 2010
- Roskilde is first with updates this week, confirming that Florence and the Machine will be performing at this year's gig. Also added to the bill is Swedish star Robyn.
- The Chemical Brothers seem to be making a comeback on the festival scene this year. They headline Exit festival along with: Mika, Royksopp, Crystal Castles, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Ricardo Villalobos, Moderat live, Josh Wink, Crookers, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan, Ed Banger's SebastiAn, Busy P and DJ Mehdi
- More confirmed for The Great Escape - Chew Lips, Dead Confederate, Japanese Voyeurs, Dam Mantle, Little Death, Violent Soho, Anna Calvi, Eskimo Joe , Chateau Marmont, Pony Pony Run Run, Think About Life, Basia Bulat, Gringo Star, Paul Dempsey, John Smith, Kid Bombardos, Ghost Bees, Let’s go to War, Young Rival, The Dutchess & The Duke and Philadelphia Grand Jury
- Live at Leeds have announced ten new acts: Goldheart Assembly, Just Handshakes (We're British), North Atlantic Oscillation, Lone Wolf,Piskie Sits, Lightspeed Champion, The Bacchae, Napoleon IIIrd, Sam Airey and The Sunshine Underground.
- A few comedian announcements for Altitude in France here: Al Murray, Phil Kay, Rich Hall, Rufus Hound (who obviously hasn't fallen out with Argumental opponent and Altitude founder Marcus Brigstocke too much!) plus Jonathan Ross' chat-show house band 4 Poofs & A Piano
19 February 2010
- Friday starts subtly, but 2000 Trees have announced that The Subways, who won the emerging talent competition for Glastonbury all those years ago, will be headlining this year's festival. Also confirmed today is: Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun, The Dawn Chorus, Chris T-T, Roundstone, The Tailors, Ben Marwood, and Dan Heaver
- A nice quote from 2000 Trees organiser Andy Rea: "I first saw The Subways five years ago and they were fantastic, even though little known back then. Always exciting, energetic and really working the crowd into a frenzy, this is sure to be a superb crowning glory to this year's 2000trees."
- Melt! festival in Germany has made its first line-up announcement for 2010. In alphabetical order: A-Trak, Matias Aguayo & Band, Ellen Allien, An Horse, Ata, Black Rose (Henrik Schwarz & Jesse Rose live) , Blood Red Shoes, Booka Shade, Boris, Bratze, Chromeo, Carl Craig feat. Mike Banks, Chris Cunningham, Clues, Crookers, Marcel Dettmann, dOP, Egotronic, Fake Blood, Fred Falke live, Marcel Fengler, Roman Flügel, Foals, Four Tet, Frittenbude, Sascha Funke, Get Well Soon, Hemmann & Kaden live, Nick Höppner, Ja, Panik, Jackmaster, Jamie XX, Jamaica, Markus Kavka, Ben Klock, Oliver Koletzki, Monika Kruse, Lindstrøm & Christabelle, Mala, Massive Attack, Modeselektor feat
