Bestival 2010: The Year of The Fantastic

Exciting times in the Bestival bunker as we announce even more acts, including Roxy Music, plus a visionary fancy dress theme - Fantasy!  This year's show is going to be an earthly paradise beyond compare... Bestival 2010: The Year of The Fantastic!

More live music from: Roxy Music / Mumford & Sons / Chic feat. Nile Rodgers / Tricky / The Temper Trap / Sub Focus (live) / Cornershop / Alex Metric (live) / The Jim Jones Revue / Everything Everything / Memory Tapes / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Erland And The Carnival / Example / Gaggle / Deer Tick / Sparrow and The Workshop / Summercamp / Crystal Fighters / Egyptian Hip-Hop / Phosphorescent / Portico Quartet / Race Horses / Neon Indian / North Atlantic Oscillation / Mademoiselle Caro & Franck Garcia / Jamie Woon / The Bikini Beach Band

And more DJs: Mylo / Dave Clarke / Erol Alkan / Aeroplane / DJ Yoda / Skream / High Contrast & MC Wrec / Tom Middleton / Todd Edwards / DJ Zinc / Joker / Jack Beats / Shy FX / Caspa & MC Rod Azlan / Adrian Sherwood / MC Dynamite / Jackwob / Chris Coco / Villa / Reggae Roast / Autonomic Showcase feat. Dbridge, Instra:mental & SP:MC / Breakage / Feeling Gloomy / Fear of Theydon / Sombrero Sound System / Paddy Freeform

Please check the artists section of this website for the full list of acts announced so far...

Bestival Tickets available now from:
Ticketline: www.ticketline.co.uk / 0844 888 4410
NB: Ticket Payment Plan available - pay a quarter of the total ticket cost (plus booking fees) now, with the further three payments spread across the following three consecutive months.

Bestival Ticket + Ferry Travel Deals:
Red Funnel: www.redfunnel.co.uk/bestival  / 0844 844 9988
Wightlink: www.wightlink.co.uk/bestival  / 0871 376 1000
 
Rob da Bank says: "Well it's the Year of the Fantastic at Bestival and it doesn't get much more fanbleedingtastic than Roxy Music. A lifelong fan of it all from the Seventies and Eighties, Roxy have always been at the vanguard of creating imaginary worlds in music all backed up with some of the best music of the 20th century. Add in Besti faves Mumford and Sons, the legend that is Tricky, Nile Rodgers bringing possibly the funkiest band alive Chic to the Island and loads more from Cornershop to Sub Focus, Skream to garage god Todd Edwards and we're really taking shape now. Come and join us!"

We are incredibly pleased to announce that real life legends Roxy Music will be playing a hit-packed set on the main stage on Saturday night. One of the most influential acts of all time, the punks, new romantics, electro-poppers and more that have followed in their wake all owe a huge sonic and sartorial debt to this truly timeless act. Driven by the refined and effortless cool of Bryan Ferry, one of pop music's most revered front-men, Roxy Music's catalogue of boundary-crushing songs, that include Virginia Plain, Street Life, Angel Eyes and Love Is The Drug are sure to blow the Bestival faithful away.

Commenting on their appearance Bryan Ferry said: "The Isle of Wight has a strong festival tradition, and it seems a great idea to have fantasy as this year's Bestival theme. I'm also really looking forward to seeing Nile Rodgers and Chic again".

Roxy Music have given us an exclusive-never-been-released 15-minute long 'Serge Santiago epic-edit' of their classic single 'Angel Eyes' to give away to you all alongside some new collage artwork created especially for us (& you) by the band! Click here to download (for a limited time only)

Having kept it a closely guarded secret we can now unveil the incredible and much anticipated fancy dress theme for our Year of The Fantastic...
 
Rob da Bank says: "Roll up roll up tribe of the Bestivalites: descend from your starships, rise out of the seabed, fall from the stars, unleash the Magick and release your imagination into our 2010 world of FANTASY. Open the gates and welcome in Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, The Lord of the Rings, hobbits, trolls, elves, fairies, the Odyssey, King Arthur, Merlin, the Dong with the luminous nose, William Morris, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Willy Wonka, Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Harry Potter, Spirited Away, The Time Machine, Star Wars, the Incredible Hulk, Magick, the supernatural, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Lord Ganesh, Fantasy Island, Caractacus Potts, Tarzan, Veruca Salt, Zombies ... the only limit is how far your mind's eye can see!"

Staying very much with the fantastical there's even more amazing music to be announced including, alt-folk sensations Mumford & Sons. Currently riding high on a crest of adulation for their acclaimed Sigh No More album, the band is a renowned live sensation that will add a sublimely rustic rock vibe to proceedings. One of Camp Bestival 2009's most incandescent delights Chic feat. Nile Rodgers are set to wow the Robin Hill crowd with their peerless disco-funk that spans not only their own amazing back catalogue but also takes in Nile Rodgers-penned solid gold hits from the likes of Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, David Bowie and Madonna. Plus there will be Bristolian rhyme messiah and all-round musical maverick Tricky who is currently mining a rich seam of form that will see him captivating one and all with his genre-smashing exploits. The Brown Punk don is a bona fide trailblazer who, from his debut album Maxinquaye all the way through to the recent Knowle West Boy, has never failed to capture the imagination.

As if that wasn't enough to get you writing off anything else but booking a trip across the Solent for the second weekend in September we have got so much more to tickle your fancy including Aussie atmospherics from The Temper Trap, live tear out action from Sub Focus, the majestic musical musings of sing-a-long geniuses Cornershop, plus we'll have BBC Radio 1's newest purveyor of late night beats Alex Metric playing live, heads-down psych-garage purveyors The Jim Jones Revue, off-kilter pop from Everything Everything, bloggers delight Memory Tapes, North London types Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, trad. Scottish and English folk turned on its head by Erland and The Carnival, dysfunctional electro-pop from the incredible Example and mesmerising ensemble singing from Gaggle. We'll also have gruff and grungy folk from Deer Tick, bittersweet drama from Sparrow and the Workshop, alternative rockers Summercamp, the wild and unkempt folk poetry of Crystal Fighters and lush, cascading, scuzz-rocking from the hotly tipped Egyptian Hip-Hop, one-man indie folk/alt country band Phosphorescent, future jazz from Portico Quartet, Euros Childs' protégés Race Horses, lo-fi ramshackleness from Neon Indian, the unprecedented sounds of North Atlantic Oscillation, Gallic new wave house from Mademoiselle Caro & Franck Garcia, soulful singer songwriter Jamie Woon and surf noir from The Bikini Beach Band. 

Extra hands in the air DJ manoeuvres will come courtesy of the inimitable Mylo, techno don Dave Clarke, Erol Alkan's phantasy sounds, the blissful Aeroplane, deck-wrecker DJ Yoda, the incredible Skream, liquid funkster High Contrast with MC Wrec, the visionary Tom Middleton, Garage doyen Todd Edwards, the legendary DJ Zinc,  bass chieftain Joker, turntable virtuosos Jack Beats,  junglist Shy FX, dubstep playas Caspa & MC Rod Azlan, soundsystem warrior Adrian Sherwood, the inimitable MC Dynamite, remixer du jour Jakwob, chill out maestro Chris Coco,  heads down action from Villa, the killer riddims of Reggae Roast, The Autonomic Showcase featuring dBridge, Instra:mental and SP:MC, the devastating Breakage, the Feeling Gloomy crew, Sunday Best's very own Fear of Theydon and Sombrero Sound System and freestyle spinner Paddy Freeform.


BESTIVAL 2010 TICKET INFO

Bestival Tickets available now from:
Ticketline: www.ticketline.co.uk / 0844 888 4410
NB: Ticket Payment Plan available - pay a quarter of the total ticket cost (plus booking fees) now, with the further three payments spread across the following three consecutive months.

Bestival Ticket + Ferry Travel Deals:
Red Funnel: www.redfunnel.co.uk/bestival  / 0844 844 9988
Wightlink: www.wightlink.co.uk/bestival  / 0871 376 1000

Adult Weekend Tickets: £150

Student Weekend Ticket: £140
(valid NUS or ISIC ID (only) required at the box office)

Age 13 to 15 Child Weekend Tickets: £75

Age 12 & Under Child Weekend Tickets: FREE
(but you MUST obtain a ticket)

Campervan Tickets: £60
(per vehicle)

Please visit the tickets page of this website for full ticket info and our terms and conditions

Also, we've started a new blog cleverly entitled the Besti-blog which is updated daily with the latest news, views, mix-tapes and features from the lands of Bestival, Camp Bestival, Sunday Best and Rob da Bank. Check it at www.besti-blog.blogspot.com

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