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Bestival Only A Handful Of Tickets Left

• 8th Jul 2009

With little sister show Camp Bestival already all sold out, you’re going to have to pull your fingers out if you want to join us on the Isle of Wight for Bestival’s ‘Year of the Spectacular’, as there are literally just a few tickets left. The remaining tickets are only available from Wightlink, so get yourself to their website ( link) or call them on 0871 376 1000 to make sure you can celebrate the festival season’s glorious swansong with us at Robin Hill Country Park.

Rob da Bank says – “This ain’t no marketing shenanigans, folks, this is time at the bar, the final furlong, the last lap, the final frontier and the end of the road for all you non ticket holders! What with a recession going on and some mega competition we're pretty chuffed to sell 40,000 tickets with 2 months to go. We won't say it again – this is your last chance.”

Taking place from 11th -13th September, Bestival’s sixth outing promises to be a truly legendary weekend. With a brand new site layout, our new Afterburner Stage & Blastival show, the Outer Space fancy dress theme, Heavenly Healing, the Pamper Lounge, Kids Garden, tea, cakes, amazing food and an eye-popping line up that includes Massive Attack, Kraftwerk, Elbow, MGMT, Fleet Foxes, Seasick Steve, Klaxons, Lily Allen, Soulwax, La Roux, Bat For Lashes, The Big Pink, Chase & Status, Toddla T, Appleblim and oh, so much more, all sprinkled with a very generous helping of Bestival magic, it really is going to be our best one yet, so don’t miss out!
As well as a full weekend of wizardry, Bestival-goers turning up to Robin Hill on the evening of Thursday 10th September will be treated to an extra-special screening of the 25th Anniversary Special Edition of the greatest rockumentary of all time, This Is Spinal Tap. Released on 7th September on DVD and Blu-Ray with a host of extras, This is Spinal Tap: the 25th Anniversary Edition will be going one louder in the Big Top and as if that wasn’t enough, the first 100 people to arrive at the screening will receive a special goody-bag! The screening will be preceded by a special Never Mind the Buzzcocks-style quiz testing some special guests on their knowledge of the film whilst post-screening fun will see a ukelele band playing a selection of Spinal Tap faves and DJs rocking the dancefloor. We can’t wait!

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Live Acts:
65 Days Of Static / 2020 Sound System / A Child Rasputin / Alessi’s Ark /Altern8 / Baddies / Bastila / Bat For Lashes / Bjorn Again / Black Acid /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 / Dirty Projectors / Doves / Drums Of Death / Dub Pistols / Eat Static / Ebony Bones / Efterklang / Elbow / Esser / Fight Like Apes / Filthy Dukes / Fleet Foxes / Florence & The Machine / Frankmusik / Free Peace / Fresh Legs / 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 / Lemonade / Lily Allen / Little Boots / Lizzy Parks / Lucky Elephant / Maps / Man Like Me / Massive Attack / Metronomy / MGMT / Michael Nyman / Micachu & The Shapes / Mika / Music From The Penguin Café / Napoleon 111rd / Natty / Ohbijou / Orkestra Del Sol / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Skint And Demoralised / Passion Pit / Peggy Sue / Pivot / Pole / Polly Scattergood / Rox / Seasick Steve / Shanklin Freak Show / Skibunny / Soulwax / Sound Of Rum /Speech Debelle / Sportsday Megaphone / Squarepusher / Stardeath And White Dwarfs / Sunny Day Sets Fire / The Acorns / The Adventurists/ The Beat / The Big Pink / The Big Hairy Band / The Cuban Brothers / The Dawn Chorus / The Duloks / The Ghost / The Hat / The Horrors / The Hot Rats / The Mummers / The Pretty Things / The Shutes / The Subs / They Came From The Stars I Saw Them / Tinchy Stryder / VV Brown / Wave Machines / Workhouse / Xo-Man

DJs / MCs:
2manydjs / A1 Bassline / A Skillz / Alix Perez / Annie Mac Presents / Annie Nightingale / Beardyman / Beat Boutique / Benga / Benji B/ Bloody Beetroots / Bobby Friction / Brian Monaco (Kitchen Party) / Broken Heart DJs / Cagedbaby / Carl Cox (old Skool Set) / Caspa / Chase And Status / Chris Coco And Pete Gooding / Coki /Coley (Luv Jam) / Daisy Heartbreaker / Derrick Carter / Diplo Mad Decent Soundsystem / DJ Charge / DJ Dan (Propaganda) / DJ Derek / DJ Food / DJ Yoda / Dublime Presents – Appleblim, Martyn, 2562 & Reso / Fabio & Grooverider / Fake Blood / Feeling Gloomy DJs, / Firas (Filthy Few) / Flying White Dots / Foamo / Freemasons / Fear of Theydon / Friction / Gaz's Rockin Blues / Gilles Peterson / Goldie Locks / Grum / Hijack/ Hudson Mohawke / Huw Stephens / Jaguar Skillz / Jaymo And Andy George / Johnno (Bugged Out) / Joker / Justin Robertson / Karl Hyde & Rick Smith (Underworld) / Kasra / Krafty Kuts / Kry Wolf / Krysko / L Vis 1990 / Lee Mortimer / London Elektricity / Luke Pritchard (Kooks) / Michael Cook / Monsters At Work DJs / Outmode / Paul Trouble Arnold / Plastician / Price (Dpr Recs) Raffertie / Rachel Barton / Riva Starr / Rob da Bank / Ross Allen / Russ Cuban / Scuba / Sombrero Sound System / Skream /Tayo / The Correspondence / The Heavenly Jukebox / The Loose Cannons / Tim Boogaloo / Toddla T / Tom Middleton / 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 Gramaphone (Island Band) / The Shoots / Wightlight Orchestra