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Razorlight to headline OsFest

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

Headliners Razorlight have been announced for OsFest the Shropshire music festival which has expanded to four days taking place from Friday 1st until Monday 4th June 2012 atOswestry Showground, in Shropshire.

Razorlight who headline on Sunday are the first act announced, new acts will be announced now on a regular basis. The festival will offer a range of music and dance acts, both well known and emerging talent. For the line-up details as available please click here.

Event Director, Carly Jackson said, “We are absolutely delighted to have Razorlight at Osfest and only in our 3rd Year, whatever next!

“Last year’s highlight for me was singing along to Example’s ‘Watch The Sun Come Up’ this year I am already looking forward to getting in my wellies and jumping along to ‘America’.

“We still have plenty of surprises up our sleeves which will be released shortly, stay tuned!

“We are going to be celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee in style and I am sure everyone will be very grateful for the extra day off on Tuesday!”

OsFest will transform the 37 acre Showground site into a Festival Village with several camping areas, a food village, VIP hospitality suites, a main stage, funfair, music workshops and many other attractions aimed at a wide and varied audience.

Early bird tickets are on sale until Valentines Day. An adult ticket is priced at £59.50 for a full weekend camping ticket or £65 without camping. Under 16 camping tickets (for children from 11 – 15 years inclusive at the date of the festival) are priced at £55, or £55 without camping. Children aged under 10 years tickets are free. ID will be required when exchanging tickets for wristbands. To buy tickets, click here.

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Dizzee Rascal to headline Nottingham’s Splendour 2012

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

Rapper Dizzee Rascal will headline Splendour, Nottingham’s annual family friendly music festival, which returns for its fifth year at Wollaton Park on Saturday 21st July.

Joining him on the bill will be Razorlight, Katy B, and Levellers who headline the second stage, no other acts announced yet, but expect some local bands to also get a taste of the festival experience as well.

Councillor Jon Collins, Leader of Nottingham City Council said, “Being able to bring Splendour back for a 5th year is great news for the City Council and great news for the City. It¹s become one of the region’s most popular and high profile music events and attracting such a world class headline act shows that Splendour is making waves nationally and internationally. It’s a great event, in a great location, with great music, a great family feel and at a really great price. We’re really pleased to be able to work with our partners DHP to put on such a good show for Nottingham.”

Tickets last year sold out. Tickets are priced at £37.50, or £27.50 for adult Citycard holders (City of Nottingham resident), a teen aged 11-17 year old ticket is priced at £27.50, or £15 if a Citycard 360 holder (City residents), and all children under 10s have free entry. Tickets go on sale Wednesday 1st February, and eFestivals will have links to buy tickets then.

Set in the stunning grounds of Wollaton Hall, the festival has grown to become one of the region’s biggest music events, attracting around 15,000 people of all ages.

Splendour feature three live music stages, a comedy stage, special entertainment for children, bars, food stalls, fairground rides, kids are and more. There’s no camping – the deer won’t have it.

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Arthur Brown, Strawbs, Big Boy Bloater, for Rhythm Festivals

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

More line-up additions and more details have been announced for the three linked Rhythm Festivals held over the August bank holiday weekend at Mansion House, Old Warden Park, near Biggleswade, in Bedfordshire which has been 3 Festivals in 1.

The latest acts to be confirmed are Scott Matthews, Arthur Brown,Strawbs, Big Boy Bloater, Here & Now, The Men They Couldn’t Hang,Three Bonzos And A Piano, Eddie And The Hot Rods, Damh the Bard, Cherry Lee Mewis, Leatherat, Lucy Zirins, King Hammond, and Mitch Laddie Band.

There’s also more details of the stages at the three in one event, the Rhythm Festival is to have 2 stages: Big Rhythms and Happy Rhythms whilst the two new events, Rhythm Folk and Rhythm & Blues will each have their own areas, dominated by two huge big-top stages. Camping and lots of other attractions will be shared.

Festival Director Jim Driver said, “I’m really excited to welcome exciting new performers like New Folk star Scott Matthews, emerging Folk-Rock heroes Leatherat and young Blues guitar phenomenon Lucy Zirins to Rhythm Festival. There’ll be plenty more. There’s a lot of great music being created right now and I want to present just as much of it as we can. It’s the best of both worlds. Rock icon Arthur Brown may be in his sixties, but his current stage act is one of the most exciting I’m ever seen. The same goes for Wilko Johnson and Eddie & The Hot Rods who have never been on better form. I’m genuinely very excited about the wealth of talent we’ll be presenting at Rhythm Festivals 2012, vintage and brand new. It’s going to be the best year ever.”

Also new this year and available to ticket-holders for all three Rhythm Festivals are Fringe Theatre performances in the The Old Dick Theatre and an extensive programme of Literary & Poetry Events. Comedy (again programmed by Jesterlarf Comedy Club of Cambridge) will return in 2012 as will other old Rhythm favourites, including the Groovy Movie Picture House (free solar-powered cinema), DJ Wheelie Bag in the Tavern Bar and more children’s entertainment, including Panic Circus and the Junior (London) Olympics. Many more new attractions, and big name acts for these attractions will be added in the coming weeks.

Rhythm Festivals offers three days of three festivals in one plus a host of ‘fringe events’, will return for its seventh year over August bank holiday, from Friday 24th until Sunday 26th August 2012 at Mansion House, Old Warden Park, near Biggleswade, in Bedfordshire.

All three festivals will operate simultaneously over the August Bank Holiday Weekend in different parts of the same 500 acre site, with some shared facilities (children’s entertainment; camping, toilets and showers; certain bars and entertainment) plus unique, specialist stuff in the Folk and Blues Fields. A “Land Train” is being booked to ferry people around.

An early bird adult all events weekend ticket is priced at £99 (includes free youth/ child when bought together) with additional youth/child (aged 5-17 years) tickets priced at £60. Infants (under 5 years) are free when accompanied by adult ticket-holders. Camping and accommodation extra.

A Rhythm Folk Festival or Blues Festival Pass only pass (bought before 31/05/12) is priced at £70, with youth/child (aged 5-17 years) tickets priced at £35.

Camping is priced at £36 per tent, a caravan/campervan ticket is priced at £50, and a single room with 3 nights basic student accommodation with bed & breakfast (one person only) is priced at £75.

Tickets will soon be on sale for individual events (probably priced at £60-£75 for the weekend) and there will be a combined pass for all three events costing around the price of two.

Early Bird All Festival weekend tickets will stay at £99 until 1,000 has been sold (only 216 left as of 8am 27/01/2012) and then the price will rise to £119. Day tickets are not yet on sale.

To buy tickets, click here.

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first 15 acts confirmed for Hevy including six UK exclusives

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

The south-east’s Hevy Music Festival has announced no less than six UK exclusives in the first salvo of acts confirmed to play at the fourth year of the annual festival.

The exclusives are Converge, Will Haven, the Rhode Island hardcore act Verse who reformed this year, The Chariot, Trapped Under Ice, and Pianos Become The Teeth.

Also confirmed are Protest The Hero, Deaf Havana, A Wilhelm Scream, Deez Nuts, Set Your Goals, Balance and Composure,Sharks, Last Witness, and Crocus.

Hevy will also have after-hours DJs every night, a load of Front girls, stalls from clothing brands, and more.

The headliners and more than sixty bands are still to be announced across 4 stages at the festival which also features live extreme sports displays and more and takes place atLympne Wildlife Park, in Kent from Friday 3rd until Monday 6th August 2012.

Weekend tickets are priced at £96 including camping, and free entry to Port Lympne Wild Animal Park for the weekend. To buy tickets, click here.

Please note that this is an age 14+ only event.

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hip-shaking musical line-up for Camp Bestival

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

Hot Chip will headline Friday night at this summer’s Camp Bestival 2012.

Camp Bestival has announced there will be ‘Saturday Night Fever’ with Kool & the Gang, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers (confirmed yesterday), and Earth, Wind & Fire Experience feat Al McKay.

Other live acts include Jimmy Cliff, Rizzle Kicks, Adam Ant And The Good The Mad And The Lovely Posse, Little Dragon, Bellowhead,Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, The Cuban Brothers, Breakfast with Henry Rollins (spoken word), Spector, Delilah, StooShe, P Money, Youngman, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, Dub Pistols, The Shellac Collective, DJ Yoda & The Transiberian Marching Band, Clement Marfo & the Frontline, Scroobius Pip, Random Impulse, and Frankie Rose.

Also confirmed are Liz Green, Three Bonzos And A Piano, Prince Fatty, We Were Evergreen, 2:54, Gabrielle Aplin, Pearl And The Beard, Blues Brothers UK, Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo, The Moonflowers, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, Duke Special, This Is The Kit, and Folk Idol this year will present The Folk Olympics.

For dance fans there will be DJ sets from Warm & Electric Minds, David Rodigan MBE presents RAM JAM, The Japanese Popstars, Jaguar Skills, Camo & Krooked, Greg Wilson,Zed Bias, Mosca, Ben UFO, Stopmakingme, and Balearic Brothers.

Festival organiser Rob da Bank said, “I can’t believe it’s still only January yet my heads firmly entrenched in a field in Dorset in July thinking about all the mighty musical offerings and other fun and games we have lined up for Camp Bestival. From Chic to Hot Chip, Jimmy Cliff to Little Dragon and Mr Tumble to Rizzle Kicks it’s another very diverse line up reflecting all the different ages and tribes that descend on Lulworth Castle each year! I hope to see you there.”

The family friendly event return from Thursday 26th to Sunday 29th July, the first week of the school summer holidays, at the picturesque setting of Lulworth Castle, set against the backdrop of England’s dramatic Jurassic coastline in Dorset.

Camp Bestival has a wealth of festival exclusives including Justin Fletcher aka Mr Tumble, Silly Olympics with Lost & Found, Shrek the Musical, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Bopps, English National Ballet, Kid Carpet and the Noisy Animals, Camp Bestival Summer Panto: Beauti and the Beast, Roundhouse Street Variety Show, and Truth About Youth. Plus exclusive food from Young British Foodies, and the Underground Restaurant.

Plus The Gruffalo show is also back with a theatrical adventure on Sunday morning on the Castle Stage. Being 747 will be performing their new scientific rock opera ‘The Clockwork Universe’ as well as slapstick comedy from The Bopps!, featuring Housemartins founder Stan Cullimore.

Stefan Gates The Gastronaut will be demonstrating his fantastic gastronomical experiments in the Little Big Top. Circus treats with Wookey Hole Circus, Howard Marks reading Kids Stories, Morris Dancing, and daredevil motorbike tricks on the Wall of Death.

Rob da Bank’s Youth Club set up on the Isle of Wight in partnership with the Youth Trust, is coming to Lulworth to offer up a selection of music and arts workshops.

The ‘Silly Olympic’ themed shin-dig will include a screening the opening ceremony live in the Big Top on Friday night complete with a Camp B torch. Lost & Found will also be back as the loveable Camp Bestival Blue Coats to host their own 2012 Silly Olympics.

From pea shot-put to their signature binocular football, there’ll be a wealth of crazy-Olympic games. The fifth Camp Bestival will be full of spectacle, good food, the offer of luxury camping and tons of fun for all the family with over 100 free things for kids to do and lots and lots of brand new attractions.

Early bird tickets are on sale. An adult weekend ticket with camping is priced at £170 or £180 if camping from Thursday, a weekend with camping child ticket for those 15 to 17 (on 26/07/2012) is priced at £100, or £105 if camping on Thursday. A weekend with camping child ticket for those children 11 to 14 (on 26/07/2012) is priced at £85, or £90 if camping on Thursday.

All teens (aged 11 to 17) MUST camp in the same area as their families with a maximum of 2 teens per adult (over the age of 30). All children under-11 (on 26/07/2012) can attend for free (but MUST HAVE a ticket). These ticket holders must be accompanied by a Ticket holding parent or guardian over the age of 21.

An advance car parking pass is priced £10 per car (or £15 cash on arrival), and campervan ticket is £80 per vehicle.

Early bird tickets are available on the family payment plan with one initial payment to be made on purchase followed by 5 monthly instalments, An adult weekend ticket requires an initial payment of £30 with 5 further payments of £30. Age 15-17 weekend ticket – initial payment of £17.50 with 5 further payments of £17.50. Age 11-14 weekend ticket – initial payment of £15 with 5 further payments of £15. Campervan Ticket – Initial payment of £13.33 with 5 further payments of £13.33. Car Park Ticket – Initial payment of £1.67 with 5 further payments of £1.67.

To buy tickets, click here.

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tickets on sale today for Steps forest reunion tour show

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

From 9am today tickets go on sale for Steps‘s reunion tour date at Westonbirt Arboretum, in Gloucestershire on Sunday 22nd July, as part of the forestry commission’s Forest Tour.

The pop group comprising Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer and Ian Watkins (aka H) reformed last year for a documentary series, and then announced a UK arena tour.

Now is your chance to buy tickets to see Steps perform some of their hit singles including ‘One For Sorrow’, ‘Heartbeat/Tragedy’, ‘Love’s Got A Hold Of My Heart’, ‘Deeper Shade Of Blue’, ‘After The Love Has Gone’, ‘When I Said Goodbye/Summer Of Love’ and ‘Stomp’ in a picturesque forest setting.

Tickets are priced at £36.

To buy tickets from Ticketline, click here.

To buy tickets from Seetickets, click here.

To buy tickets from Gigantic, click here.

To buy tickets from Ticketmaster, buy here.

The Forestry Commission is committed to taking woodlands to new audiences and making them relevant to people in new ways. The forest tour is self-sustaining, paying for itself, and any profit generated goes back into improving woodlands for both wildlife and the public to enjoy.

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tickets on sale for Henley’s 80s Rewind

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

Tickets go on sale from 9am today for this year’s 80′s Rewind Festival which will be held atTemple Island Meadows, near Henley On Thames,.

The 80′s Rewind Festival billed as a celebration of 80′s music and artists returns for its third year over the weekend of Friday 17th until Sunday 19th August 2012.

Saturday’s line-up is headlined by The Bangles, with support from Kool & The Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Rick Astley, Soul II Soul, Five Star, Starship, Heather Small, Jimmy Somerville, Sinitta, Right Said Fred, and Doctor & the Medics.

Sunday will be headlined by OMD, supporting line-up includes Lightning Seeds, Special Guest (TBA), Roland Gift, Tony Hadley, The Straits, Wong Chung, Marc Almond, John Parr, Midge Ure, The Christians, and T’Pau.

Although the festival opens on the Friday for camping, concessions, funfair and more, the main stage is expected to once again only be active on the Saturday and Sunday. Festival goers can also expect posh nosh, theme bars, and the usual 80s Rewind range of camping options. In addition to the Main Stage, the festival will have a host of other entertainment; funfairs and fireworks, street entertainers and a Kidzone, alongside theme bars, food courts, stalls, silent disco and Karaoke.

Tickets sold out last year. An adult weekend ticket is priced at £110 (or £95 without camping). A weekend child aged 12 years and under ticket is priced at £55 (or £47.50 without camping). Children aged 3 years and under go free. A standard campervan (up to 6m in length) pass was priced at £75, with passes for campervans over 6m in length priced at £150 – these have sold out. Day tickets are also available priced at £50 for adults, and £25 for children.

To buy tickets, click here.

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New Order to headline Serbia’s Exit Festival

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

New Order have been announced as one of the first headliners for the Main Stage for the 13th edition of Serbia’s Exit Festival.

New Order will be bringing ‘Blue Monday’ to Serbia on Friday 13th July. The first act announced for the Fusion Stage are Portuguese world music Buraka Som Sistema. Taking to the decks in the Dance Arena will be Luciano, Reboot, Kenny Larkin, Robert Dietz, and Maayan Nidam for a special Cadenza Records showcase on Friday 13th July.

These acts are just the first taster for a line-up which will feature around 400 international and Serbian performers on over 20 stages hosting a variety of musical genres ranging from rock, dance, indie, latino, reggae, electronica, chill out and regional music.

The dates for the 13th edition of Exit are confirmed as Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th July 2012, and the festival returns again to Petrovaradin Fortres, in Novi Sad, Serbia.

A four day pass ticket are priced at £95 with camping priced at an extra £25. To buy tickets,click here.

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‘Good Times’ for Camp Bestival as Chic confirm

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

Chic featuring Nile Rodgers have confirmed themselves for the ‘Silly Olympics’ themed Camp Bestival 2012.

The family friendly event return from Thursday 26th to Sunday 29th July, the first week of the school summer holidays, at the picturesque setting of Lulworth Castle, set against the backdrop of England’s dramatic Jurassic coastline in Dorset.

There will be a full programme of music (no acts have been announced yet for 2012), plus other entertainment including comedy, arts & crafts, spoken word, dance, and more. Chic’s Nile Rodgers has announced on the video below that they’re going to be taking everyone on an epic journey through one of the most booty-shaking back catalogues known to man when they play at Camp Bestival 2012.

Camp Bestival will be announcing the rest of this year’s line-up tomorrow morning.

Yesterday Camp Bestival announced what will be new there this year. This included Young British Foodies Tent will be on site a a festival exclusive. There will be a Wall of Death, and Morris dancing. The Olympics are covered with a screening of the opening ceremony live in the Big Top on Friday night complete with a Camp Bestival torch alongside Silly Olympic antics throughout the weekend with Lost & Found. Romantics can get married at the Big Love Inflatable Church.

This year the Come Dancing sessions have moved to a Belgian Spiegel Tent. There will be a Secret Emporium offering retail therapy with the milliners, jewellers, fashion designers and artists and goodies from some of the best British designers, and for food lovers the Underground Farmers Market curated by MsMarmitelover. The Wookey Hole Circus of under 18 year olds will present magic acts, aerial feats and juggling mayhem, and Square Peg Circus will present a dusk performance of their new outdoor show ‘Rime’.

Camp Bestival will offer a line up of exclusive shows, including an operatic Fantastic Mr Fox, mischievous duo The Bopps, the first Camp Bestival Summer Panto and the brand new Roundhouse Street Variety Show!

The healing area expands this year offering massages, wood fired hot tubs, relaxation and meditation with the David Lynch Foundation.

There’s a huge Kids Area filled with things to keep little ones of all ages entertained all day long in a jam packed haven for kids and their parents. Plus Lulworth Castle has its very own Animal Farm where the kids can get up close to their super-friendly animals.

Early bird tickets are on sale. An adult weekend ticket with camping is priced at £170 or £180 if camping from Thursday, a weekend with camping child ticket for those 15 to 17 (on 26/07/2012) is priced at £100, or £105 if camping on Thursday. A weekend with camping child ticket for those children 11 to 14 (on 26/07/2012) is priced at £85, or £90 if camping on Thursday.

All teens (aged 11 to 17) MUST camp in the same area as their families with a maximum of 2 teens per adult (over the age of 30). All children under-11 (on 26/07/2012) can attend for free (but MUST HAVE a ticket). These ticket holders must be accompanied by a Ticket holding parent or guardian over the age of 21.

An advance car parking pass is priced £10 per car (or £15 cash on arrival), and campervan ticket is £80 per vehicle.

Early bird tickets are available on the family payment plan with one initial payment to be made on purchase followed by 5 monthly instalments, An adult weekend ticket requires an initial payment of £30 with 5 further payments of £30. Age 15-17 weekend ticket – initial payment of £17.50 with 5 further payments of £17.50. Age 11-14 weekend ticket – initial payment of £15 with 5 further payments of £15. Campervan Ticket – Initial payment of £13.33 with 5 further payments of £13.33. Car Park Ticket – Initial payment of £1.67 with 5 further payments of £1.67.

To buy tickets, click here.

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new world music festival announced for Wales

Posted by dave787 on January 27th, 2012

A new world music festival has been announced for Wales. The inaugural Kaya Festival will be held in the grounds of the Vaynol Estate near Bangor, North Wales, and will take place over the Bank holiday weekend, from Friday 1st until Sunday 3rd June 2012.

Kaya hopes to offer an assortment of African, Jamaican, Caribbean and world musical flavours along with a diverse range of workshops, food stalls and festival activities.

Friday night will be Global DJ Night with international and local DJs, sound systems and live sound clashes including Snowboy, andFrankie Francis.

Saturday’s main stage plays host to Tony Allen, Kanda Bongo Man,Dele Sossimi, and Sona Jobarteh.

Sunday celebrating the culture of Jamaica and the Caribbean with Lee Scratch Perry, Studio One vs Trojan Sound System,Ska Cubano, and Dub Pistols.

Stages will host live music until midnight; cabaret, spoken word, acoustic live music, comedy until 1am; Kaya ‘After Hours’ music and themed nights until 3.30am.

On the Saturday Kaya are also holding a ‘Do Youth Day’ offering local teenagers a headline act, training and mentoring to celebrate the potential of young people in North Wales. The festival team aim to leave a positive ‘human footprint’ and there is an opportunity for 10 young people to get involved in the running of the festival to gain valuable work experience.

The festival is a new venture for business partners and musicians Thabani Nyoni and Dece Gambe. “2012 is a great year to kick off our new festival, we are offering something a bit different to the local and UK festival crowd celebrating diversity, music and art in beautiful North Wales,” said Thabani.

Keeping the festival affordable and leaving a sustainable economic footprint is important to the organisers. “We are keeping tickets prices at a reasonable level to encourage local people and families to attend. The Vaynol excelled when they hosted the BBC Radio 1 music festival, we perform regularly in North Wales, we wanted the opportunity to enjoy this fantastic location,” Thabani added.

Festival organisers are working with local companies to source goods and services from the North Wales area. “Larger impersonal festivals are being hit by the economic climate; there is still a place for smaller capacity cottage festivals that offer a unique music experience. We are looking forward to Bangor becoming the Kaya ‘home to the world’,” said Thabani.

A weekend camping ticket is priced at £75, Day tickets are priced at £45. There are no age restrictions for those attending the Kaya festival, but anyone under-16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult aged 18 or older. Children (0-12) get free entry but will still need a ticket. Tickets go on sale on Friday 3rd February 2012, and eFestivals will have links to buy them then.

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