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Hercules And The Love Affair And Example Added To Lounge On The Farm Line Up

• 8th Jun 2010

Kent's finest award winning festival, Lounge on the Farm is set to announce their Friday night headliner plus another raft of amazing acts that will join Martha Reeves and the Vandelllas, Toots & The Maytals, DJ Yoda, Beardyman, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Slow Club and Jakwob for their triumphant 5th birthday celebrations. Set on Merton Farm just outside Canterbury and taking place on the weekend of 9th – 11th July this year's Lounge on the Farm will feature a host of Theatre and Comedy attractions as well as probably the most delicious food available at any festival anywhere, ever!

With their Saturday and Sunday headliners already confirmed Lounge on the Farm are ecstatic to be able to announce that Hercules And Love Affair will be heading up Friday's line up in the Cow Shed. Disco doyens par excellence, Andrew Butler's band of New York movers and shakers will lift the roof of the main stage with their Gamble and Huff style strings and proto-acid house grooves. Having released one of the best albums of 2008, the band are currently putting the finishing touches to their sophomore set, so expect a mix of classics and some box-fresh beats to keep you reaching for the lasers!

Adding his weight to proceedings is lyrical tour de force Example. A self confessed proponent of dysfunctional electro-pop, Example will also be celebrating the release of his second album 'Won't Go Quietly' at Lounge on the Farm which means we can look forward to super-slick rhymes, bouncing beats and heavy pop hooks. As the penultimate main stage act on the main stage on Friday you can be sure he 'Won't Go Quietly'. Confirmed to headline the Furthur Stage on Saturday night is musical voyager Jah Wobble. From PiL, Invaders of the Heart, Chinese Dub Orchestra and The English Roots Band, Wobble's bass odysseys are as legendary as the man himself and are sure to be taking you much Furthur. Setting up Toots & The Maytals for Lounge on the Farm's 2010 finale will be UK Ska legends Bad Manners. One of the best loved bands from the 2-Tone movement, Buster Bloodvessel and his merry band of Ska 'n' B cohorts will be delivering a salvo of treasured treats including Lip Up Fatty, My Girl Lollipop and their incendiary version of the Can Can. Bad Manners are sure-fire party starter and no mistake.

Other acts joining the bill include Sunderland's latest indie exports Frankie and the Heartstrings who will be making the journey to England's garden showcasing the angular art-stomp-pop that has seen them singled out as ones to watch by the likes of the NME. Neo-psychedelic post-punksters The Television Personalities will also be on hand to demonstrate just why they have been such a huge influence on the likes of Alan McGee, Battles and MGMT. A bona-fide cult band that has been consistently releasing records since 1978, The Television Personalities are a true gem and definitely ones not to miss.

BBC Radio 1's man with his finger on the indie pulse, Huw Stephens, will be hosting the Sheep Dip on Sunday introducing a wealth of new and undiscovered talents, including quirky Brightonian leftfield popsters Pope Joan,Young Legionnaire, who feature ex Yourcodenameismilo man Paul Mullen, Bloc Party's Gordon Moakes and La Roux's drummer William Bowerman and Frederick Macpherson's (Ok.Eagle.Lion.Man / Les Incompetents) new all-conquering Club Royale.

With a tractorful of non-musical highlights including the Country's finest festival food offering and brand-new Comedy & Theatre stages keep checking link to keep up-to-date with all that's happening at Kent's bestest Music Festival