Category: Festival Line-Up Announcements

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE, NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS AND MORE CONFIRMED FOR T INTHE PARK 2012

By on Feb 21, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News
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FLORENCE + THE MACHINE, NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS AND MORE CONFIRMED FOR T IN THE PARK 2012

TICKETS ONSALE 9AM WEDNESDAY 29TH FEBRUARY

via www.TICKETMASTER.co.uk and 08444 999 990

 

As a teaser for the dedicated army of T in the Park fans eagerly anticipating the big reveal of this year’s line up on Thursday 23rd February, festival organisers DF Concerts and founding partner Tennent’s Lager are thrilled to tickle their tastebuds ahead of the main reveal, by announcing [...]

Melt! Festival announce first wave of acts for 2012

By on Feb 21, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

Melt Festival announces first wave of acts for 2012
13th to 15th July 2012
www.meltfestival.de

Melt! announce the first wave of international acts that will perform at the festival’s 15th edition from 13th to 15th July 2012. Acts including Gossip, Justice, Two Door Cinema Club, The Whitest Boy Alive, and M83 will perform beneath the iconic giant diggers, Bloc Party will celebrate their reunion with a very special performance and electronic music purveyors Richie Hawtin, Ellen Allien and Modeselektor will curate and host [...]

KISS, QUEEN, FAITH NO MORE HEADLINE SONISPHERE 2012

By on Feb 20, 2012 in Featured, Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

SONISPHERE KNEBWORTH has announced three headliners and the first batch of bands for its 2012 event, with tickets available fromwww.sonisphere.co.uk from 9am Thursday 23rd February.

 

Shooting rockets. Blood spitting. Face Paint. Shiny Boots and utterly jaw dropping triumphant live shows:  SONISPHERE is proud to announce KISSas Friday’s headliner. With a reputation for being perhaps the most flamboyant and entertaining band on the planet, the American Kings will bring their stage extravaganza to SONISPHERE as their only European performance of 2012. While many bands have been chasing the eye liner [...]

INITIAL METEOR CAMDEN CRAWL DUBLIN LINE UP ANNOUNCED!

By on Feb 18, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

May 11th & 12th 2012 marks the launch of the METEOR CAMDEN CRAWL DUBLIN, a brand new live music event, taking place in 15 Dublin venues between Camden Street and Temple Bar. Rather the opposite of what its ‘pub crawl’ title implies, this Crawl is a music connoisseur’s dream. The eclectic line up will boast more than 100 hotly tipped International and Irish live acts, along with some very special guests. METEOR CAMDEN CRAWL DUBLIN 2012 will be a marvelous [...]

Beverley Festival headliners confirmed

By on Feb 18, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News
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Beverley Festival headliners confirmed

www.facebook.com/BeverleyFolkFestival

The headline acts for the prestigious Beverley Festival (Folk, Acoustic, Roots) have now been announced, revealing some of the top names from the British folk, and mainstream music scene. The festival has always managed to provide a top rate programme of artists, with a varied range of musical genres to suit all tastes.  2012 looks set to demonstrate that this success story is to continue.

 

The festival kicks off on Friday (15th June) with folk-rock [...]

The Make-Up reform,Ultramagnetic MCs for London I’ll Be Your Mirror

By on Feb 16, 2012 in Featured, Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

 

Reformation of THE MAKE-UP (UK exclusive),
the legendary ULTRAMAGNETIC MCs (UK exclusive),
HARVEY MILK, BILL WELLS & AIDAN MOFFAT
+ More New Additions For
I’ll Be Your Mirror, 25-27 May at London’s Alexandra Palace

On the weekend of the 25th-27th May 2012 at Alexandra Palace, London, All Tomorrow‘s Parties present the second UK I’ll Be Your Mirror festival.

Tickets are on sale now via ATPFestival.com.

Today ATP announce some fantastic new additions to all three days of the event – highlighted by the reformation of THE MAKE-UP [...]

THE CURE,RADIOHEAD,THE STONE ROSES HEADLINE OPTIMUS ALIVE

By on Feb 15, 2012 in Featured, Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

Optimus Alive
Lisbon, Portugal
13th – 15th July 2012
http://www.optimusalive.com/en

THE STONE ROSES

THE CURE

RADIOHEAD

TO HEADLINE OPTIMUS ALIVE FESTIVAL, LISBON, PORTUGAL

 

First acts announced:

Caribou
Florence And The Machine
Justice
Mazzy Star
Metronomy
Mumford and Sons
Paus
Radiohead
Snow Patrol
The Cure
The Kooks
The Stone Roses
Returning to Lisbon, Portugal for its sixth year with its unique combination of world-class international line up and prime location a stone’s throw from both Lisbon city centre and the beautiful coastline, Optimus Alive continues to cement its place as [...]

Liverpool Sound City announces initial line up

By on Feb 11, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News
PROGREEN

Liverpool Sound City, the 3 day international music, media and technology conference and live arts and music festival returns in May with another compelling line up.  Acclaimed for its bold and innovative programming and forward thinking conference, Liverpool Sound City is focused on the future, intent on bringing the best new music, film, art and more from all over the world to Liverpool.  With the inaugural New York Sound City show taking place in March and further international shows to be announced, this is an incredibly exciting [...]

Jazzwise to the Power of 15

By on Feb 10, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News
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Jazzwise 15th Anniversary Festival: March 12th-17th 2012

 

Ronnie Scott’s, 47 Frith St, London, W1D 4HT 

www.ronniescotts.co.uk

 

with Ron Carter, Empirical, Chris Potter, Troyka, [em] and Arun Ghosh

 

Jazzwise Magazine, the UK’s biggest selling jazz magazine, celebrates it’s 15th anniversary this March, and Ronnie Scott’s is delighted to present a very special ‘Jazzwise to the Power of 15’ festival from the 12th -17th March.  The festival, which has been jointly curated by Ronnie Scott’s and Jazzwise’s editor [...]

Burton Agnes Festival Line-Up Announced

By on Feb 10, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

The multi award winning Stacey Kent to headline the 6th Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival

 July 6th, 7th and 8th 2012

 

www.burtonagnes.com

 

The Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival returns for its sixth year set in the award winning grounds and Elizabethan Hall of Burton Agnes, East Yorkshire, YO25 4NB. Organised by the Hall’s sax-playing owner, Simon Cunliffe-Lister, the festival runs over three days showcasing some of the UK’s hottest jazz and blues acts [...]

BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR ANNOUNCE TEENAGE CANCER TRUST AS THEIR OFFICIAL CHARITY PARTNER

By on Feb 08, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News
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For the second year running, Teenage Cancer Trust is to benefit from Derbyshire’s Bloodstock Open Air festival. The festival is held over the weekend of August 9-12 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire and will be raising awareness and funds for the charity.

 

After s successful 2011, guest list donations will again be made to Teenage Cancer Trust with money going towards helping young people with cancer in the UK. There’ll also be many things across the weekend to raise awareness of [...]

The Apple Cart Festival Unveils Line-Up

By on Feb 08, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News
apple cart festival

The Apple Cart Festival
Sunday 3rd June 2012
Victoria Park, Grove Road, London E3
http://theapplecartfestival.com

*Announcement*

Adam Ant, Josh T Pearson, Gilles Peterson, Inner City,
Beth Jeans Houghton, Scritti Politti and more added to the music line up.
A host of exciting Magic Circle Magicians confirmed for 2012.
Penguin Books tent returns to The Apple Cart with interactive storytelling and a library.
Comics Miles Jupp and Bobby Mair added to the comedy bill.
The magical Art Car Boot Fair returns to Victoria Park.

Music

Adam Ant [...]

The Garden Festival Croatia – first wave of names released – 4th-11th July 2012

By on Feb 07, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

The Garden Festival Croatia
Announces First Wave of Acts

First headliners announced including Nicolas Jaar – live, Kenny Dope, Tiger and Woods and Ralph Lawson’s 2020 Soundsystem
Metro Area’s Darshan, Ben UFO, Greg Wilson, David August, Solomun, Space Dimension Controller, Laura Jones, Appleblim, Gavin Herlihy, Tim Sweeney  all star too, along with many others announced
14 Argonaughty boat and 8 Barbarellas club parties also revealed
Garden Festival and Electric Elephant announce the Double Whammy
After six years the party moves to a beautiful new [...]

NILE AND MAYHEM CONFIRM EXCLUSIVE UK APPEARANCES AT BLOODSTOCK 2012

By on Feb 02, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR has added another two fantastic acts to a line up already boasting the top names from the world of metal. The deadly double dose announcement comes in the form of Floridian death metal behemoths NILE and Norwegian Black Metal Legends MAYHEM, who both make their BLOODSTOCK debut.

 

With four critically acclaimed albums, a few EPs and several world tours under their belt, NILE has raised the bar for extreme metal bands musically, lyrically and conceptually. Guitarist/vocalist Karl Sanders [...]

Drake to headline Barclaycard Wireless Saturday 7 July

By on Jan 31, 2012 in Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

Barclaycard Wireless Festival is excited to announce that Grammy nominated recording artist Drake will headline the festival on Saturday 7 July.

UK superstar Example, Pennsylvanian rap lyricist Wiz Khalifa (this will be his only UK show of 2012) and London rap star Professor Green will also join the bill. With Rihanna already confirmed to headline Sunday 8 July, Barclaycard Wireless Festival is set to be an unmissable weekend in London’s iconic Hyde Park.

Canadian born rapper Drake is a bona fide superstar. [...]

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