Blissfields Full Line – Up Announced

• 10th May 2008

Britain’s favourite small festival can announce the release of day tickets to coincide with the addition of new artists. The Mercury nominated sonic experiment Maps will join advancing new bands Noah and the Whale, Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit and the winner of this years’ yet titled Red Stripe Music Award.

This makes Blissfields 2008 truly the best year in its history and easily one of the most exciting small festivals in the country, offering the paramount balance of established names in music alongside the apex of emerging acts, playing to a crowd of astonishingly just 5,000 ticket holders. With the announcement of the daily bill, single day tickets are now available from www.blissfields.co.uk priced at just £30.00 / £35.00.

This year will also see a new addition to the Blissfields carnival; a mass birthday party. Join in on the biggest and most eccentric birthday party you’ll ever have where anybody celebrating their day over the weekend will get the chance to request songs and receive an essential birthday party pack while bands sing happy birthday to you. Even if it’s not your birthday, the atmosphere will be so electric you’ll feel as though it is.

From its launch in 2001 at the fields of founders Paul and Mel Bliss, Blissfields has captured the imagination of its patrons, growing each year until its climactic win at the 2007 UK Festival Awards where it bagged Best Small Festival as well as appearing on The Times’ Festivals of the Year list, also making their Top 5 Indie Festivals of 2008 along with the Observer’s top 20 festivals for 2008.

This may be the biggest year in its history but by no means has that quintessential magic gone, Blissfields 8 being the same enchanting boutique of past years with a bill that resplendently stamps it out in the summer calendar.

The Line-up is as follows:

FRIDAY 4TH JULY

THE WONDER STUFF
NOISETTES
MAPS
CHRIS T-T
OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN
SUBSOURCE
ROBOTS IN DISGUISE
LETHAL BIZZLE
LAZY HABITS
JOHNNY FLYNN AND THE SUSSEX WIT
ROSIE ODDIE AND THE ODDSQUAD

SATURDAY 5TH JULY

THE WHIP
INFADELS
PETE AND THE PIRATES
IMPERIAL LEISURE
NOAH AND THE WHALE
JIM BOB
SUBGIANT
THE WALLBIRDS
CAPTAIN PHOENIX
THE ALL NEW ADVENTURES OF US
TALK TAXIS – SUBLIMINAL GIRLS
MUMFORD AND SONS – DAVE HOUSE

Sunday 6th July

RONI SIZE REPRAZENT
THE RUMBLE STRIPS
SIXNATIONSTATE
SOWETO KINCH
THE PAN I AM
PEGGY SUE AND THE PIRATES
MONTY AND THE BUTCHERS
RSMA WINNER
BEANS ON TOAST
BLISSKRIEG – THE BRUT CHORUS