Bestival organisers 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.
Driven by the refined and effortless cool of
Bryan Ferry, one of pop music’s most revered frontmen, Roxy Music’s catalogue of boundary-crushing songs that include Virginia Plain, Street Life and Love Is The Drug are sure to blow the Bestival faithful away.
And the much-anticipated 2010 fancy dress theme will be
Year Of The Fantastic…
“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 & 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, Sergeant 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”…Even more amazing music to be announced includes alt-folk sensations
Mumford & Sons. One of Camp Bestival 2009’s most incandescent delights,
Chic (featuring Nile Rodgers), are set to wow the Robin Hill crowd with their peerless disco-funk. Plus there will be Bristolian rhyme messiah and all-round musical maverick
Tricky.
Tricky Photocredit SETH DINNERMAN
There’s so much more to tickle your fancy; The Temper Trap, Sub Focus, Cornershop, Alex Metric 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 and The Bikini Beach Band.
There will be DJ sets from Mylo, Dave Clarke, Erol Alkan’s, Aeroplane, DJ Yoda, Skream, High Contrast with MC Wrec, Tom Middleton, Todd Edwards, DJ Zinc, Joker, Jackbeats, Shy FX, Caspa & Mc Rod Azlan, Adrian Sherwood, MC Dynamite, Jakwob, Chris Coco, Villa, Reggae Roast, The Autonomic Showcase (featuring dBridge, Instra:mental and SP:MC), Breakage, Feeling Gloomy, Fear of Theydon and Sombrero Sound System plus Paddy Freeform.
And there is still one more headliner to announce!