Bestival Lineup Announcement
Bestival curator, Rob Da Bank, today revealed a slew of new artists booked to play at Bestival 2011 on the Isle of Wight. The new announcements included Public Enemy, Pendulum, Pete Tong, Doorly, Annie Mac, Noah & The Whale, Mogwai, PJ Harvey, Village People and many more. In a series of tweets, he announced the following live acts would be playing the festival:
- Pendulum
- Noah & The Whale
- Public Enemy
- Graham Coxon
- The Maccabees
- PJ Harvey
- Ms Dynamite
- Los Campesinos!
- The Drums
- Kelis
- Mogwai
- Chromeo
- Village People
- Paloma Faith
- Claire Maguire
- Toots & The Maytals
- SBTRKT
- Patrick Wolf
- Global Communication
- Big Audio Dynamite
- Cut Copy
- Metronomy
- Zola Jesus
- Modeselektor
- Jungle Brothers
- Caravan Palace
- Venetian Snares
- Health
- Beardyman
- Asian Dub Foundation
- Wretch 32
- Gentleman’s Dub Club
- Macka B & The Roots Ragga Band
- Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
- Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip
- The Unthank
- L-Vis 1990 & The Neon Dream
- Ed Sheeran
- Frankie & The Heartstrings
- Dry The River
- Eat Static
He also announced the following DJs wwould be playing the three-day fancy-dress spectacular:
- Fatboy Slim
- Groove Armada
- Annie Mac Presents…
- Pete Tong
- Andy C & MC GQ
- Skrillex
- Joy Orbison
- Doorly
- Claude VonStroke
- Emalkay
- Hi Tek Soul (Ft Kevin Saunderson & Derrick May)
- Derrick Carter
- Weatherall
- Congo Natty
- Loefah
- DJ Derek
- Tensnake
- Julio Bashmore
- Bok Bok
Tickets are available here. This promises to be the biggest Bestival line-up yet, after their historic win of the Best Major Festivals award at last year’s UK Festival Awards. We interviewed Rob Da Bank at Bestival’s annual party at Koko on Saturday, read the whole interview later on today, only on BlagSound.com.
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