Bestival
Just announced......... Carl Cox Drops It Old Skool
For The Bestival Massive
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Karl Hyde & Rick Smith (Underworld) - exclusive DJ set
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DJ sets from Tom Middleton Krafty Kuts, A Skillz, Jaguar Skillz and the Heavenly Jukebox, with live shows from Mr Hudson and The Library, Vetiver, Paloma Faith, The Field, Skint And Demoralised, Drums Of Death, Black Acid and Dirty Projectors
There’s just four months to go until we unveil the full majesty of this year’s Bestival! With a brand new site layout and some absurdly groovy new attractions, Bestival HQ is a hive of furious activity, putting the finishing touches to another madcap marvel. Always endeavouring to create an incredible experience we have lined up two rather tasty exclusives that are guaranteed to rock the party!
First up, bona fide master of the ones and twos (and threes – he’s a three-deck wizard) Carl Cox will be stepping up to the turntables to throw down an awesome old skool set in the Big Top. 100% certain to whip any crowd into a giddy mess Carl was the first person to be crowned ‘Number 1 DJ In The World’ by DJ mag and his sets have never failed to tear it up, from Awesome 3 and King Bee to Shades of Rhythm and Shut Up & Dance, Carl will be dealing solely in classic dancefloor bombs in what will be a UK festival excusive.
And the exclusives don’t stop there. Last year’s Sunday night headliners Underworld had so much Bestival fun that they’re returning to Robin Hill Country Park for a world exclusive DJ set on the main stage, counting down to Kraftwerk’s Saturday night headline slot. It’s the first time Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have made manoeuvres on the wheels of steel together as Underworld at any festival worldwide, so make sure you don’t miss out.
From deep inside the Bestival bunker Rob da Bank says:
“Carl Cox and Underworld have both soundtracked my raving years and both have smashed it at Bestival before. I’m grinning like a fool at the prospect of Karl and Rick warming up the Bestival masses before Kraftwerk and Coxy tear the roof off the Big Top on Sunday night. I’ll make sure I’m not DJing at the same time as him this year!”
If that wasn’t enough, Bestival keep up the brill bookings with Mr Hudson and The Library, fresh from working on his album with Kanye West. Other ace new acts include the massively-tipped Paloma Faith, superb techno artist The Field, Richard Fearless from Death In Vegas’ new band Black Acid, Brooklyn’s finest Dirty Projectors, scary mutant beats man Drums Of Death (the debut of his new 3-piece live show), northern beat poet Skint And Demoralised, pumping breaks don Krafty Kuts, funky beatsmith Jaguar Skillz and The Heavenly Jukebox DJ wing of the much-loved indie label.
Last but by no means least is another dance music legend - Tom Middleton, who’ll be working his magic on the new Afterburner Stage straight after Kraftwerk. Who better than the man synonymous with deep groovesome aliases like Link, Global Communications, Jedi Nights and Cosmos to round off a dream sequence of electronic music pioneers, at what promises to be a golden festival moment for years to come.
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As you know Outer Space is this year’s fancy dress them so we’ve gone into interstellar overdrive getting together some very cosmic costumes and as ever there will be a host of magic treats to be had, which as part of our Year of the Spectacular will include Blastival. A fiery spectacle unfolding over three nights, the show blends astounding pyrotechnical pleasures with stunning street theatre. In its first major festival appearance, the performance will tell the tale of our hero Michael Santos, his magnificent machine Maximus and his dream to reach the stars.
There will also be the After Burner, a brand new 360-degree multi-stage arena that will come alive after dark and late into the night. Centred around a 10-meter tower built from jet engine components producing various effects with fire, smoke and water, the heart of the tower is a DJ booth producing the beat for the effects to synchronize to the mayhem!
With our luscious alternative camping, mouth-watering food concessions, tea and cakes and crazy japes there’ll be more madcap tomfoolery and eccentric partying than you can shake a stick at.
Confirmed so far............
Live Acts:
65 Days Of Static / 2020 Sound System / Alessi’s Ark /Altern8 / Baddies / Bastila / Bat For Lashes / Bjorn Again / Blindfold / Bloco Electro / Blue Roses / Casio Kids / Chase & Status / Chew Lips / Coopers Rage / Cordelier Club / Crazy P / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Delphic / Dent May / Dinosaur Pile Up / Diplo Presents Mad Decent Soundsystem – Boy 8 Bit, Buraka Som Sistema, Major Lazer, Rusko / Doves / Dub Pistols / Eat Static / Ebony Bones / Efterklang / Elbow / Esser / Fight Like Apes / Filthy Dukes / Fleet Foxes / Florence & The Machine / Frankmusik / Free Peace / Friendly Fires / Frightened Rabbit / Fujiya & Miyagi / Future Sound Of London / George Pringle / Golden Silvers / Goldie Lookin’ Chain / Goodbye Stereo / Heartbreak / Hockey / Introducing / It Hugs Back / Jack Penate / James Yuill / Joe Gideon & Shark / Just Jack / Kid Carpet / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / Klaxons / Kraftwerk / La Roux / Lily Allen / Little Boots / Lizzy Parks / Lucky Elephant / Maps / Man Like Me / Massive Attack / Metronomy / MGMT / Michael Nyman / Micachu & The Shapes / Music From The Penguin Café / Napoleon 111rd / Orkestra Del Sol / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Passion Pit / Peggy Sue / Pivot / Pole / Polly Scattergood / Rox / Seasick Steve / Soulwax / Speech Debelle / Sportsday Megaphone / Squarepusher / The Beat / The Big Pink / The Cuban Brothers / The Dawn Chorus / The Duloks / The Ghost / The Horrors / The Pretty Things / The Shutes / They Came From The Stars I Saw Them / Tinchy Stryder / VV Brown / Wave Machines / Workhouse / Xo-Man
DJs / MCs:
2manydjs / A1 Bassline / Alix Perez / Annie Mac Presents / Annie Nightingale / Beardyman / Beat Boutique / Bloody Beetroots / Brian Monaco (Kitchen Party) / Cagedbaby / Caspa / Chase And Status / Chris Coco And Pete Gooding / Coki /Coley (Luv Jam) / Daisy Heartbreaker / Derrick Carter / Diplo / DJ Charge / DJ Dan (Propaganda) / DJ Derek / DJ Food / DJ Yoda / Dublime Presents – Applebim, Martyn 2562 & Reso / Fabio & Grooverider / Fake Blood / Freemasons / Fear of Theydon / Friction / Gaz's Rockin Blues / Gilles Peterson / Goldie Locks / Huw Stephens / Johnno (Bugged Out) / Joker / Kasra / Kry Wolf / Krysko / London Elektricity / Monsters At Work DJs / Plastician / Price (Dpr Recs) Raffertie / Riva Starr / Rob da Bank / Russ Cuban / Sombrero Sound System / Skream / Tayo / Tim Boogaloo / Toddla T / Tru Thoughts (Robert Luis & Kinny) / Zane Lowe
Island Day:
Blank Beats / Cooly Haste /Goodbye Stereo / Guy Page Trio / Hugo Fruslinky / JC and Angelina / Joe Stilgoe / Lucid / Papa Do Plenty / Santa Spirita / Simon Shelley / Sun Down City / The Chancers / The Gramophone / The Kurves / The Operators / The Shoots / Wightlight Orchestra
And many more acts to be announced…