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Futureheads-Curated Split Festival Announces Line Up

• 16th Jun 2011

Ashbrooke Sports Club is the venue for this year's Split Festival in Sunderland, which takes place across September 17th and 18th.

Curated by The Futureheads, with guitarist Ross Millard at the helm as Split's Music Programmer, this is the third year for the festival and promises to be its best yet.

Artists confirmed so far include The Drums, Dutch Uncles, B>E>A>K>, We Beat The System, The Charlatans, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Ganglians, Hyde & Beast, Leatherface and Dauntless Elite, with many more yet to be announced.

Martin Blunt of The Charlatans commented: “We’re really looking forward to playing at Split Festival and I think that it will be one of the last festivals we’re doing for some time because after that we’ll be in the studio. We’ve got Frankie and the Heartstrings on before us and I’ve heard a lot of good things about them and I think we’ll be up early doors anyway for Split, so I’ll go and have a wander round and check out the up and coming acts, as I know there will be some good ones playing.”

Ross Millard noted: “We’re incredibly excited about The Drums. It’s pretty exclusive and for Split and Sunderland to boast that is pretty amazing. It was really important that on the Saturday night we’ve got a new band that has an immense level of excitement around them and they are the band that is summing up the modern element of Split Festival this year, with the other side of the coin being Sunday night’s headliners, The Charlatans, who have innumerable anthems.

”At the end of the Sunday when everyone is getting a little bit emotional and a little bit carried away with themselves, on come the Charlatans to play you through a greatest hits set and it couldn’t really be better. That’s something which is really important about Split, we got someone valid to close the festival on Sunday night, it’s Glastonbury-esque, they have these great legacy performers who close Glasto and now we’ve got one of our own at Split.”

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MSD