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Festival Line-Up Update: Pinkpop, Forbidden Fruit, Chester Rocks and more

By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 13 March 2014

Ooooooooooh, so. Those Rolling Stones have done the FLUU double, and popped up on not one but (and you can tell where I’m going with this) TWO line-up updates of late: those at Belgian one-dayer TW Classic AND rose-tinted Dutch skirmish Pinkpop. Perhaps Keith will do a live recital of his new true-life kids’ book as an encore. Perhaps not.

Following on from that exclusive, we have further such FLUUs from the Cambridge Folk Festival, rockin Chester fest Chester Rocks, Scottish paradise Eden Festival, juicy Irish indie event Forbidden Fruit, Hampton Court Palace’s annual courtyard bash, and hot Scots ticket Howlin Fling…

CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds, Cambridge, 31 Jul – 3 Aug: Eddi Reader, Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, Oysterband, Julie Fowlis, The Fisherman’s Friends, Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle, Peatbog Faeries, North Mississippi Allstars, Hot 8 Brass Band, Yves Lambert Trio, Belinda O’Hooley & Heidi Tidow, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Jim Moray’s Silent Ceilidh, Brian McNeill, My Darling Clementine, Whapweasel, New Rope String Band, The Rails, Old Swan Band, Megson, The Young’Uns, The Mischa Macpherson Trio. www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk

CHESTER ROCKS, Chester Racecourse, 6-8 Jun: Razorlight, Dizzee Rascal, The Feeling, The Hoosiers, The Fallows, The Suns, The Maydays. www.chester-rocks.com

EDEN FESTIVAL, Raehills Meadows, Moffat, Scotland, 13-15 Jun: De La Soul, Artful Dodger, Bez’s Acid House, Howard Marks, Heatwave, The Nextmen, JFB, Jus Now, Electric Swing Circus, Prince Fatty feat The Horseman, Gypsy Disco, Will And The People, Mungos Hi Fi, Asbo Disco, Dreadsquad, Beans On Toast, Federation Of The Disco Pimp, Jinx In Dub, Monk3y Logic, The Black Diamond Express, Duncan Disorderly & The Scallywags, Solko, Biggles Wartime Band. www.edenfestival.co.uk

FORBIDDEN FRUIT, Royal Hospital Grounds, Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland, 31 May – 1 Jun: Flaming Lips, Bell X1, Flying Lotus, Fuck Buttons, Nils Frahm, Young Knives, Vann Music. forbiddenfruit.ie

HAMPTON COURT PALACE FESTIVAL, Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, 11-25 Jun: Van Morrison. www.hamptoncourtpalacefestival.com

HOWLIN FLING FESTIVAL, Isle Of Eigg, Scotland, 18-20 Jul: Adult Jazz, Alexis Taylor, Beth Orton, Damian Helliwell’s Metta, eagleowl, Eugene Tombs, GEESE, Golden Teacher, Gulp, Ichi, Insect Heroes, Jens Lekman, Jonnie Common, Kid Canaveral, Luke Abbott, Massacre Cave, Meursault, Miracle Strip, Monoganon, Oliver Coates, Operator, The Phantom Band, The Pictish Trail, Prehistoric Friends, Rachael Dadd, Randolph’s Leap, RM Hubbert, Rozi Plain, Sam Amidon, Seamus Fogarty, Steve Mason, Synaesthete, Tuff Love, WOLF. lostmap.com

PINKPOP, Landgraad, Limburg, Netherlands, 7-9 Jun: The Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys, Biffy Clyro, John Mayer, Haim, Kodaline, Bombay Bicycle Club, Paolo Nutini, Clean Bandit, Rob Zombie, Flogging Molly, Portugal. The Man, Twenty One Pilots, The Kooks, White Lies, Limp Bizkit, John Newman, Jett Rebel, Gogol Bordello, Ghost, Ed Kowalczyk, Bonamassa, Les Djinns. www.pinkpop.nl

PURBECK FOLK FESTIVAL, Wilkswood, Swanage, Dorset, 21-24 Aug: Lloyd Cole, Eddi Reader, The South, Chris Wood, Emily Barker And The Red Clay Halo, CoCo And The Butterfields, Gren Bartley, John Langan, Caravan Of Thieves, Aimee Mackenzie, Alex Roberts, Odi, Dan Whitehouse. www.purbeckfolk.co.uk

SUNDOWNER SESSIONS, Lusty Glaze Beach, Newquay, full dates TBA: The Feeling. www.lustyglaze.co.uk/sundownersessions

TW CLASSIC, Festivalpark, Werchter, Belgium, 28 Jun: The Rolling Stones, Simple Minds, Seasick Steve, Triggerfinger, Arno, Admiral Freebee. www.twclassic.be/en

WOOD FESTIVAL, Braziers Park, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, 16-18 May: Sweet Baboo, Alessi’s Ark, Jackie Oates, Oliver Wilde, The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band, O’Hooley & Tidow, Nick Cope, Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou, Spires, Co-Pilgrim, Rachael Dadd, Edd Keene, Nick Jonah Davis, Jali Fily Cissokho, Paul McClure, Vikesh Kapoor, Trent Miller, Jack Day, Count Drachma, Knights Of Mentis, Juila Meijer, Art Theefe, Jordan O’Shea, Macamu, Oxford Ukuleles. www.woodfestival.com