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T in the Park 2012 Earlybird Tickets on sale 9am Thursday

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 T in the Park 2011 went off in spectacular style in Balado to the tune of storming sets from Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, The Strokes, Beyoncé, Pulp and Tom Jones to name just a few, and rapturous applause from 85,000 of the most passionate music fans each day – another roaring success for everyone involved. 

 
2012 will see T in the Park bring the finest acts on the planet, world class musical performances, the biggest beats around and the most passionate music fans in the world together again for the best weekend of the summer and fans can secure their place now by taking advantage of the early bird sale.
 
Next year’s event will take place on 6th – 8th July 2012, and fans can secure their place at Balado early.  Early bird tickets go on sale for T in the Park 2012 at 9am on Thursday 14th July from Ticketmaster.
 
A limited number of T in the Park 2012 tickets will be available at 2011 prices with all ticket types available. To buy log onto www.tinthepark.com or www.ticketmaster.co.uk or call 08444 999 990.

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Bestival grows further still with Cocknbullkid, Nero & more added

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Rob da Bank says: “I spend my life thinking about who Bestival-goers would like to see at the show. The latest slew of acts highlights the sheer diversity of what people want to see at Bestival: I’m especially chuffed that The La’s have chosen Bestival to come back to the UK circuit and James Blake DJ-ing before Bjork will be a corker, no doubt. Roll on September!”

Following the announcement that Björk will be filling the final headliner spot at Bestival we are mega pleased to announce that legendary Merseyside beatniks The La’s will be getting the ferry across the Solent to join us at Bestival.  One of the most influential acts of the past 20 years, The La’s majestic eponymous debut album has inspired countless bands including Oasis and The Coral, so it’s an utter joy that they have ended nearly two decades on hiatus to entertain the Besti-crowd with their near mythical melodies in what is an exceptionally rare appearance. 

Other live acts joining the Bestival bill include Danish chanteuse Oh Land, AKA Nanna Øland Fabricius, who is currently taking the United States by storm with her cinematic take on timeless pop, alt hip-hoppers B. Dolan & Buddy Peace and indie rave Islanders Council Estate Super Models. There will also be appearances from Wolf Gang, Cocknbullkid, Tribes, Daughter, Lucky Elephant, Mad Dog, Skinny Lister, The Growlers and The Toy Hearts.

Action on the ones and twos comes courtesy of post-dubstep wunderkind James Blake who will be performing a rare DJ set to get the crowd in the mood for our Icelandic showstopper’s main stage finale on Sunday. Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek will be getting adventurous and eclectic under their Africa Hi-Tech moniker, plus there will be speaker shaking sets from Nero, Toddla T & Serocee, L-Vis 1990, Mike Pickering, Bip Ling, IDC, Fear of Theydon, Low Fro, Omid, Pete Gooding andPhil Mison.

In support of their brilliant new album, ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part 2’, the Beastie Boys have revisited their classic video ‘(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)’, inviting a jaw-dropping who’s who from the film industry, including Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Susan Sarandon, Will Ferrell, Jack Black and more to take part in ‘Fight For Your Right – Revisited’. So, we’re mega excited that we will be showing the new short film in full on the main stage and in the Big Top at Bestival. And that’s not all – the none-more generous Beastie Boys are offering the exclusive chance to win a pair of Bestival Tickets plus a copy of ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part 2’ on double white vinyl (and CD) and selected Beastie Boys back catalogue CDs plus a DVD Anthology. We’ll also select five runners-up who will receive a copy of ‘Hot Sauce Committee Part 2’ CD each. For a chance to win visit here and get involved!

Commenting on the film Beastie Boy Mike D told us: “It takes place in 1986 when the ‘Fight for Your Right (To Party)’ music video finishes shooting — and then the hi-jinks ensue.  In film terms, this is a period piece.”

 

The Beastie Boys

 
Just to get you even more excited about our fast-approaching shindig (September 8-11th, as if you didn¹t know!), we are teaming up with denim gurus Replay to give all you the chance to grab your very own ‘on the house’ pair of jeans which you can customise within the Replay Denim Studio at this year’s Bestival. 400 pairs are being given away to Besti-goers who can then have the unique experience of creating their own pair of jeans with specialised workshop tools. All you have to do is register online at www.replay.it/replayatbestival and then when you arrive at Bestival you can grab your complimentary pair of jeans and a festival-friendly gift bag. Share the love and tell your friends and, what’s more, as day turns to night the Replay Studios tent will be hosting live music and DJ sets.

Slipknot’s historic set to be transmitted live from Sonisphere Knebworth

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SlipknotThe webcasting of SLIPKNOT’s historic Sunday night headline set live across the world from KNEBWORTH, will go out live on Slipknot1.com as well as Sonispherefestivals.com. Set to be an epic and emotional occasion, this highly anticipated show will mark the band’s first appearance in the UK in over two years and their first British performance without founding member Paul Gray, who tragically passed away last year.
 
The band said of the upcoming performance: “England has always been a special place for this band from the very beginning. We can’t think of a better way to culminate our celebration of Paul’s life than to share it with the Maggots at Knebworth and the millions more watching around the world.  This is not to be missed.”

Says festival producer Stuart Galbraith:
 
“This is the first time Sonisphere Festival has been transmitted live across the web and represents yet another major stride in its commitment to harnessing the power of the internet to engage with the rock audience at large across the planet. Given that this is going to be such an important event for Slipknot fans the world over, we felt it only right to allow them all to share in what is set to be a historic experience, wherever they are.”

To tune in click to http://www.slipknot1.com

Camp Bestival – Dick and Dom to host main stage

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There will be headline performances from Blondie, Mark Ronson and the Business INTL and Primal Scream and must—see sets from the likes of Laura Marling, House of Pain, ABC, Katy B, Beardyman, Ed Sheeran andThe Cuban Brothers.
 
The little ones won’t know what’s hit ‘em with over a hundred free things for kids to do including appearances from Mr Tumble, Peppa Pig and Shrek The Musical and a wealth of entertainment from soft play and the Freestyle Sports Park to Comedy4Kids and Mini Discos. And with mouthwatering food including Kerstin Rodgers Underground Restaurant, and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s River Cottage Café and lots more amazing food stalls it’s set to be the best Camp Bestival yet.
 
Gearing up for another magical Camp Bestival weekend Rob da Bank said: “Whoop whoop it’s the sound of Camp Bestival! Three flipping weeks to go and I’m getting extremely excited. From Blondie and Screamadelica to underground restaurants, a sports park to whizz up and down on and, of course, our old chum Mr. Tumble, this is without a doubt our most psychedelic line-up yet. Who else could we add as the cherry on top but Dick and Dom, the funniest men in showbiz (if you’re about 8!)… The boys will be hosting the main stage on Saturday and generally larking about. Last chance for tickets so step up quick.”

In what can only be described as a proper coup, we’re ecstatic to announce that the incredible Dick and Dom will be hosting the main stage at Camp Bestival on Saturday 30th July! One of the greatest double acts to grace kids TV in the past decade, Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow is a stone cold classic that was enjoyed by kids of all ages and with their latest venture Dick and Dom’s Funny Business bringing them back to their rightful place on Saturday morning TV, there couldn’t be a better time for the dynamic duo to come to our festi-holiday paradise. 

Commenting on joining the bill Dick and Dom said: “We’re really looking forward to the festival this year, Camp Bestival has a great diverse line-up for kids and adults and we can’t wait to get stuck in. Make sure you come and see us on Saturday daytime on the Main Stage.”

 
Ensuring you can make your way to Camp Bestival in the finest eco style, Big Green Coach, the music travel company, is providing low cost and hassle free coach services from London Victoria to Camp Bestival (& back). So why not leave your car at home, sit back, relax, and let Big Green Coach take you to the heart of the Festival? 

You can buy coach-only tickets or coach tickets bundled up with Camp Bestival tickets, and you can choose whether to travel there on the Thursday or Friday. All return coaches leave on the Monday. For more information and to secure your Big Green Coach travel, please visit www.biggreencoach.co.uk/campbestival.
  
Coach travel is the most environmentally friendly way of getting to Camp Bestival and Big Green Coach makes it even greener with their commitment to plant two trees for every coach they bring to the festival.   So you can save money and the environment as return coach travel starts from just £34 and there are both adult and child fares available.  Let the Camp Bestival atmosphere start the moment you get on board with Big Green Coach!

New for Camp Bestival this year, our friends at Monkey Shoulder are busy building an incredible giant tree house out of old whisky barrels in the heart of the Magic Meadow. An oasis of calm amongst the festival mayhem, this wooden wonderland will be the perfect pit-stop to enjoy delicious Monkey Shoulder whisky cocktails and great food, whilst listening to an eclectic line-up of DJs. Make sure you swing by! The Monkey Mob are also giving away four tickets to Camp Bestival including ‘glam-camping’ in one of our luxury tipis. For your chance to win just visit www.monkeyshoulder.com/treehouse  Over 18s only please.

You can also expect a new take on the teddy bears’ picnic at Camp Bestival with the first ever Persil ‘Pass on the Love Picnic’ with festival-going mum of four, Jo Whiley.  Families are encouraged to bring along some long-forgotten soft toys, washed in the all new Persil 2in1 with Comfort, meet Jo and get their kids to swap toys with others, or donate them to Oxfam for another child to love. As well as their large picnic area there will be games, puppet shows and more, so mums can have a moment to relax and unwind, whilst the kids are entertained in the fun garden area. Make sure you check it out. www.persil.co.uk/kids-activities/pass-on-the-love/

Transgressive Records at Leeds Festival

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SBTRKTSBTRKT aka Aaron Jerome is already playing a DJ set at this year’s festival, but will close the Alternative Stage in Leeds with a live set.   Famous for remixing the likes of MIA, Basement Jaxx, Mark Ronson and Underworld, he has just released his eponymous debut album.   This is a rare opportunity to see this exemplary artist, or perhaps not, as he is usually performing from behind the tribal masks that have become his trademark.   Dancing will be obligatory …

Winner of the Guardian First Album Award for his debut‘Lucky Shiner’ GOLD PANDA aka Derwin Panda  has been one of the most acclaimed new artists of the last 12 months.   He started by building up a library of 

Gold Panda

original, dizzyingly eclectic electronic music incorporating a disparate mix of influences and source material. The results were gleaming instrumental hip-hop tracks saturated with bright colors and sublimely chopped-up vocal samples.

THREE TRAPPED TIGERS recently released their debut album ‘Route One or Die’ which NME described as “…the sound of imagination itself”.   The type of electronica put forward by the London trio defies classification but we call it music to enjoy yourself to and this will definitely be happening in the tent.

“Ice cold fucking synth music” is how BECOMING REAL describes his sound, we say it’s like a strand of early grime music he’s stretched, warping it into ever more pretty, frightening, ghostly shapes.  From starting out in a school band playing covers of Sonic Youth, Toby Ridler has evolved into one of the darkest new artists coming out of London.  You’ll be scared, but you’ll enjoy it!

Just some of the artists confirmed for this year’s festival – which takes place on on Friday 26th to Sunday 28th August at Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds – include:  MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, THE STROKES, PULP, MUSE, BEADY EYE, JANE’S ADDICTION, 2MANYDJS, THE STREETS, UNKLE Sounds, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO,  MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES, DESCENDENTS, PETER DOHERTY, THE HORRORS,  and THE MIDNIGHT BEAST.  On the Alternative Stage you can also find MARK THOMAS, RUSSELL KANE, TIM MINCHIN, HENRY ROLLINS, LEE NELSON, MARK WATSON, THE RUBBERBANDITS and ANDREW O’NEILL.

TRANSGRESSIVE & FRIENDS PRESENT ….
SATURDAY
 
Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit (live)
Pete & The Pirates (live)
Dry The River (live)
Goldierocks (DJ)
Transgressive / Rockfeedback (DJ’s)
 
SUNDAY
 
SBTRKT (live)
Gold Panda (live)
Three Trapped TIgers (live)
Becoming Real (live)
Transgressive / Rockfeedback (DJ’s)

Blockbuster lineup of cinema at this years Green Man Festival

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There’s a little celluloid something for everyone this summer in a packed programme of mind-bending movies and live music guaranteed to stimulate your senses – whatever time of day (or night) it is!

Lights…camera…action!

The Music Of Vernon Elliot performed by North Sea Radio Orchestra
Step back in time with The Clangers, Ivor The Engine and Bagpuss in a celebration of music from the classic kids TV shows made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin’s legendary Smallfilms Productions.

Optimum Classics
Late-night screenings of classics including Apocalypse Now, starring Marlon Brando, David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth and hit thriller Source Code.

The Beat Is The Law – Fanfare For The Common People
Documentary charting Pulp’s rise from ‘80s Sheffield obscurity to Glastonbury headliners, featuring interviews with Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley.

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde accompanied by Blue Roses
Celebrated Yorkshire folk songstress Blue Roses performs a live musical accompaniment to MGM’s seminal silent horror film.

Consumed – Inside The Belly Of The Beast
The UK premiere of a challenging and eye-opening new documentary about modern consumerist culture.

7 Inch Cinema/Ghost Box Records
Featuring the talents of Belbury Youth Club, a host of DJs, a video disco and a selection of shorts and archive clips to quicken the heart and chill the soul.

Singalongawickerman
Dust down your best Scottish accent and get your Pagan hymnbook primed for an interactive sing-a-long screening of classic cult horror film The Wicker Man.

In Chapters
Cardiff arts collective present four hours of film, music videos and live music, featuring the launch of former Gorky’s bassist Richard James’ new album.

PLUS much, much more including new Efterklang film An Island and live audio/visual performances from Emily Barker, The Real Tuesday Weld and film composer Harry Escott featuring a string quartet!

Whether it’s cartoons with the kids in the morning or losing yourself in a darkened room with a late-night cider, you can be sure it’s showing on Green Man’s silver screen this summer!

 

Bloodstock Day Splits

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The line up/day splits so far is as follows:

Thursday 11th August

SOPHIE LANCASTER STAGE
ACHREN
XERATH
REVOKER
XERATH
ACHREN
JASON ROUSE 
STEVE HUGHES 
 
Friday 12th August
  
RONNIE JAMES DIO Stage
WASP
DEVIN TOWNSEND
KREATOR
CORONER
TRIPTYKON
POISON BLACK
FORBIDDEN
WOLF
THE DEFILED
 
SOPHIE LANCASTER STAGE
LAWNMOWER DETH
OCTOBER FILE
BYFROST
ARTHEMIS
ROMEO MUST DIE
CEREBRAL BORE
IMICUS
HAMMER HORROR FANCY DRESS

NEWBLOOD STAGE
UNKNOWN FEAR 
SHREDERTRON 
INNER FIRE
ENTRO-P 
PRIMITAI
RANNOCH 
SANTURNIAN
THE FURIOUS HORDE
DECIMATION
CRYOSTORM
TRAINING ICARUS
BREZNO 
 
Saturday 13th August
  
RONNIE JAMES DIO  STAGE
IMMORTAL
RHAPSODY OF FIRE
THERION
WINTERSUN
IHSAHN
FINNTROLL
TAROT
GRAVEDIGGER
SKELETONWITCH
 
SOPHIE LANCASTER STAGE
ANGELWITCH
THE ROTTED
DEADLY CIRCUS FIRE
HAMMER OF THE GODS
DEF CON ONE
BLAKE
DRIPBACK
KEITH PLATT 
STEVE HILL   
 
NEWBLOOD STAGE
BLUD VERA
ZOMBIE MILITIA
HAERKEN 
& Loads more TBC
 
JAGERMEISTER STAGE
AVENGE THEE & NAIME
FANTASIST
GUARDIANS OF ANDROMEDA
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE
 

Sunday 14th August
  
RONNIE JAMES DIO STAGE
MOTORHEAD
MORBID ANGEL
AT THE GATES
EXODUS
HAMMERFALL
NAPALM DEATH
PRIMORDIAL
HELL
1349
 
SOPHIE LANCASTER STAGE
CRIMINAL
AMARANTHE
POWER QUEST
SURVIVORS ZERO
HELLISH OUTCAST
NEMHAIN
STEVE HUGHES 
JASON ROUSE

NEWBLOOD STAGE
CANDID INIQUITY
TWILIGHT EMBRACE
SANGUINE
NORTHERN OAK
TALANAS
SACRED ILLUSION
And More TBC

JAGERMEISTER STAGE
AMARANTHE
OPERATION ERROR
INFERNO
PIG IRON
LAST IN LINE

Persil Pass on the Love Picnic @ Camp Bestival

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Jo WhileyWill you go down to the woods today? Or are memories of teddy bear picnics as distant as Stylophones, Space Hoppers and Rubik’s cubes? Well, happily the traditional teddy bears picnic is set for a refresh this year thanks to Jo Whiley and Persil 2in1 with Comfort.

This summer sees the launch of ‘Persil Pass on the Love’ picnics, where mums and their little ones are encouraged to get together with friends, bring along their once-loved-but-now-forgotten teddies  - newly washed – and swap them with other children to be cherished again!

We all know that kids quickly grow out of their teddies, so rather than throw them away, Jo is encouraging mums bring their old (but clean!) soft toys and then pass them on for another child to love – either by swapping with a friend or donating them to charity partner Oxfam.

To launch the campaign, Jo will be holding the first ever ‘Persil Pass on the Love Picnic’ at Camp Bestival on Saturday 30th July, providing a fun activity to keep the kids happy before the music gets started! At the award-winning kid-friendly festival, families will be able to see the DJ and TV Presenter take part, swap their newly-washed soft toys and join in on the first of this summer’s picnics.

Persil 2in1 with Comfort liquid detergent leaves laundry so soft that it can be used on even the most precious items, so that well-loved teddies stay clean, irresistibly soft, smelling gorgeous – and ready to attend a picnic!

Festival-lover Jo Whiley says “As a mum, I know how difficult it can be to find family activities over the summer, which is why I think the fresh take on once-retro teddy bear’s picnics is such an inspiring idea. Toys will not only be given a new lease of life but with Oxfam, they can be passed on for other children to enjoy. Please host your own ‘Persil Pass on the Love’ picnic with friends and family this summer and let us know how you get on!”

For your chance to win a family ticket to the first ever ‘Persil Pass on the Love Picnic’ at Camp Bestival visit www.persil.co.uk/kids-activities/pass-on-the-love. Alternatively from July 25th hold your very own picnic by getting an exclusive Persil picnic pack at www.netmums.com/persilpassonthelove. Among the picnic goodies in the pack is an Oxfam collection sack – and with over 700 shops across the UK, you will be able to pass on the love, the soft toys, and any other items you may want to contribute with minimum fuss!

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