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The Boys are Back At Isle Of Wight

• 23rd Feb 2010

The boys will be making sure everything is all Wight as Editors, The Courteeners, Reef, Noah and the Whale, Devendra Banhart and The Coronas join the impressive Isle of Wight Festival line-up.

In a bill already bursting at the seams, the boys will show the girls how it’s done as the mighty Editors, band of the moment The Courteeners and Irish four piece The Coronas play the Main Stage on Sunday while the recently re-formed Reef will do it for the boys over in the Big Top.

Flying the flag for the boys on Saturday, critics choice Noah and the Whale and American favourite Devendra Banhart will be a big draw in the Big Top.

With third album ‘In This Light And On This Evening’ debuting at No. 1 in the UK and delivering top ten placing throughout Europe, Editors are indisputably one of the biggest acts in the UK. Already million selling artists before the release of that third album, the band have a well deserved reputation for stunning live performances on big stages meaning their appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival will be a highlight for fans and newcomers alike.

Manchester four-piece, The Courteeners, ended 2009 by playing their biggest gig of their career to date as 10,000 fans flocked to see them – a number will increase as they perform at the Festival’s Main Stage on Sunday 13 June. Following the success of their debut album, ‘St Jude’, the band are tipped for big things this year with the release of their second album ‘The Falcon’.

A new decade heralds the return of the unstoppable force of nature that is Reef as the West Country’s favourite sons reform for a nationwide tour. The band formed back in 1993 and their second album produced the anthem ‘Place Your Hands’. A firm festival favourite, the band will rock the Big Top on Sunday.

Noah and the Whale are Charlie Fink, Doug Fink, Tom Hobden and Urby Whale. Formed in 2006, Noah and the Whale quickly gained a foothold on the London music scene being variously described as anti-folk, nu-folk and folk-pop. One thing is sure though, they captured the public’s imagination as the band’s debut album, the critically acclaimed, ‘Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down’ was an instant hit charting top 5 and being certified Gold within just four months.

Texas born Devendra Banhart exploded onto the international music scene in 2002 quickly winning a coterie of devoted plans as well as an unusually hefty amount of critical kudos right from the outset. The media acclaim and the size of his audience, both abroad and at home, earned by debut album ‘Oh Me Oh My’ was impressive to begin with and has increased dramatically with each subsequent release. Devendra is sure to add to this growing number as he performs with his band in the Big Top on Saturday 12 June.

The Coronas have slowly but surely been embraced by their ever growing contingent of fans as one of the best Irish bands to emerge in the past five years and this was proved to be the case at this years 10th Anniversary Meteor Music Awards as the band were up against stiff competition and won ‘Best Album’. Their first release, ‘Heroes Or Ghosts’ entered the charts through virtual word of mouth and the band have gone from strength to strength since then with their second album, ‘Tony Was An Ex-Con’ entering the iTunes charts at Number one. The four-piece pride themselves on being essentially humble, although confident that they can win over people who have never been to a Coronas gig before something they will prove as they play the Main Stage on Sunday.

From 11 – 13 June 2010, Seaclose Park will play host to 55,000 free-spirited festival goers as the Isle of Wight Festival returns with a star studded line up of world class acts including Jay-Z, The Strokes, Pink, Blondie, Florence + The Machine, Mr. Hudson, Crowded House, The Saturdays, Vampire Weekend, Suzi Quatro, Spandau Ballet, Daisy Dares You, Calvin Harris, I Blame Coco, Biffy Clyro, N-Dubz and many more.