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Festival line-up update – 4 Mar 2013

By | Published on Monday 4 March 2013

Fuji Rock Festival

Ushering in CMU’s five-times weekly FLUUs this time is Japan’s ultra-cool Fuji Rock fest, as has just nonchalantly named its headliners as Nine Inch Nails, Björk and The xx. No big deal. Underneath that lot, its initial listings feature Death Grips, DJ Shadow, Flying Lotus, Tame Impala and Yo La Tengo, so that’s nice.

And since we’re talking Flying Lotus, I may as well say that he’s also been added to Belgian festival Dour’s chocolate box of live artistes, as have Trentemøller, Booka Shade and Nathan Fake. Dour’s bill at large also stars Simian Mobile Disco, Amon Tobin and The Smashing Pumpkins, by the way.

Oh, and one other thing. Plan B is to play this year’s edition of Rock Ness. He takes a headlining vantage point on the Scots fest’s overall roster (in line with Basement Jaxx and Example), and quite rightly too.

That all revealed, I have just one final thing to say, and that is this: stay fixed to the following list to find info on artist additions to venerable (and Keane, Seth Lakeman and Squeeze co-headlined) Cotswolds idyll Cornbury, York-based enigma Galtres, Devonshire sea-sports rave GoldCoast OceanFest, hardcore-revel-in-a-zoo Hevy, brand new Bulgarian debutante Horizon, and amicable family fete WeyFest.

CORNBURY MUSIC FESTIVAL, The Great Tew Estate, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, 5-7 Jul: Keane, Seth Lakeman, Squeeze, Van Morrison, Bellowhead, Beverley Knight, Echo And The Bunnymen, The Proclaimers Amy Macdonald, Bo Bruce, Jack Savoretti, Lawson, Imelda May, James Arthur, Emilia Mitiku, King Charles, Lawson, Jack Savoretti, Lucy Spraggan, Osibisa, Tift Merritt, The Overtones, King Charles, Nell Bryden, Matthew Lee, Emilia Mitiku, Osibisa, JJ Grey, Velvet Stream, Staxs, Lucy Spraggan, The Riptide Movement, Sadie & the Hotheads, The Chipping Norton Allstars. www.cornburyfestival.com

DOUR, Plaine De La Machine À Feu, Dour, Belgium, 18-21 Jul: Flying Lotus, Trentemøller, Booka Shade, Gesaffelstein, Joris Delacroix, Nina Kraviz, UZ, Cashmere Cat, Jets live, Nathan Fake, Fantastic Mr Fox, Calyx & Teebee feat SP:MC, Black Sun Empire, Culprate, Zomboy. www.dourfestival.be

FUJI ROCK, Naeba Ski Resort, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, 26-28 Jul: Nine Inch Nails, Björk, The xx, Death Grips, DJ Shadow, Coheed & Cambria, Tame Impala, Yo La Tengo, Flying Lotus, Foals, Fun., Rocket From The Crypt, Of Monsters And Men, Daughter, Tom Odell, Toro Y Moi, Feed Me, Hot 8 Brass Band, Hurts, Jack Beats, Julio Bashmore, Killswitch Engage, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, CJ Ramone, Kyte, Maya Jane Coles, Modeselektor, Porter Robinson. www.smash-uk.com/frf13

GALTRES FESTIVAL, secret location, York, 23-25 Aug: The Stranglers. www.galtresfestival.org.uk

GOLDCOAST OCEANFEST, Croyde Bay, North Devon, 21-23 Jun: Bastille, Gabrielle Aplin, Willy Mason, Xavier Rudd. goldcoastoceanfest.co.uk

HEVY, Port Lympne Animal Park, Kent, 2-4 Aug: Hatebreed, Comeback Kid, Horse The Band, The Menzingers, Metz, Tigers Jaw, Circle Takes The Square, Code Orange Kids, Heights, Full Of Hell, Bossk, Palm Reader, Mine, The Catharsis. www.hevy.co.uk

HORIZON, Bankso, Bulgaria, 23-29 Mar: Jackmaster, Crazy P, Mark E, Kink-Live, Loefah, Alex Arnout, Phaeleh, Dark Sky, Ben Pearce, Maribou State, Icicle, Wookie, Eliphino, Route 94, Throwing Snow, No Artificial Colours, Mark Jenkyns, Hannah Holland, Max Chapman, Ashley Wild, Casino Times, Guy Andrews, Kasra, Eric Duncan (Rub N Tug), Randomer, Reggae Roast, Ossie, Darling Farah, Echer, Leon Vynehall, Biome, Klose One, Benton, Planas, Jonny Cruz, Cheeba, Young Marco, Mike Gill, Soft Rocks, Maison Sky, Strategy, Nick Nokolov, Rattus Rattus, Liubo Ursiny, 1000 Names, Dan Beaumont, Brodanse, Royce Rolls, Aartekt, Moniker. www.horizonfestival.net

ROCK NESS, Loch Ness, Cotland, 7-9 Jun: Plan B, The Temper Trap, Alabama 3, Carl Craig, Netsky, The Futureheads, Mark Henning, Alex Metric, Mat Zo, Redlight, Joris Voorn, Len Faki, Nic Fanciulli, Proxy, Harvey McKay, Animal Farm. www.rockness.co.uk

WEYFEST, The Rural Life Centre, Farnham, Surrey, 30 Aug – 1 Sep: Echo And The Bunnymen, Toploader, Roachford, Nine Below Zero, Leatherat, Robin Bibi Band, Spank The Monkey, Fake Thackeray. www.weyfest.co.uk



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