The xx / Fever Ray / Richie Hawtin presents PLASTIKMAN: added to BESTIVAL 2010

18/02/2010 by admin.

Before the addition of The xx, Fever Ray and Richie Hawtin, we were convinced that Rob da Bank’s Bestival MAY contain the best line up for any festival to be held in the UK this year. Now with the addition of these three deservedly acclaimed artists, it’s safe to to say that Bestival contains the best line for any festival to be held in the UK this year. Keep the 9th - 12th September 2010 free for this…

Taken from the Bestival website…

“Staying on course to deliver the closest thing to festival nirvana this side of rock ‘n’ roll heaven, Rob da Bank and the Bestival crew are just too excited to be able to hold in the latest mega-mungus line-up announcement for our seventh outing any longer. With the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Flaming Lips, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem and Gil Scott Heron already out of the besti-bag, we have got some absolute belters joining the bill for the first Robin Hill Country Park adventure of the teenies!

Rob da Bank says: ‘OK, check this out for a triple whammy - my joint favourite band of last year The xx playing what will be a very rare UK festival appearance on our very own Isle of Wight, the audio-visual phenomenon that is Fever Ray with her ONLY UK festival this year and to cap it all one of the most important electronic wizards about, Richie Hawtin bringing his Plastikman guise to the Big Top. Selfishly these are three of the most played artists round the da Banks’ at the moment and if you don’t already own all the music get it now and get ready for September!’
Winners of a truck load of coveted accolades, including The Guardian and Rough Trade Shops’ Album of the Year, for their sublime debut album The xx will be taking the ferry to the Isle of Wight to blow you away with one of only three UK festival appearances this year that will see them baring the spellbinding lyrical interplay and evocative riffs that have deservedly made the masses fall head over heels for them. Aside from blowing us all away in the Big Top on Friday the band will also be loading Saam Farahmand’s groundbreaking, super-future ‘xx: a Sculpture of the Album’; a 3D physical interpretation of their music, into their van. Utilising film, light and sound via three specially created audio-visual units this will play all weekend in Bestival’s very own permanent cinema onsite … and you won’t see it at any other UK festies!”

The festival is to be held at Robin Hill Country Park, Isle Of Wight.

Visit the Bestival website for more information.

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