Bestival's 'Twin' Festival - Melt!

The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has launched a brilliant new initiative, AIF Twin Festivals: A Cultural Exchange, which partners the UK’s leading independent festivals with their counterparts abroad. Based on the twin towns concept, festivals are paired with likeminded and similarly structured festivals from countries from around the world and Bestival is very pleased to announce that our twin is Melt!

2010 sees the 13th Melt! festival which returns as a three day event, 16/17/18 July 2010.  It's held in a giant industrial museum, Ferropolis, in the city of Gräfenhainichen, south east of Dessau in Germany, and features electronica dance music from pop and indie though to ambient beats and hip-hop, spread across 6 floors with more than 80 live acts appearing over the weekend, including the likes of Massive Attack, The xx, Booka Shade, The Wombats, Foals and Blood Red Shoes.

Check out www.meltfestival.de/en for the full line up and to buy tickets... we hope to see you there!