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Festival line-up update – 19 Mar 2012

By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 19 March 2012

GLOBAL GATHERING, Long Marston Airfield, Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire, 27-28 Jul: Tinie Tempah, Chase & Status, Armin Van Buuren, Friendly Fires, Magnetic Man, Maverick Sabre, Sub Focus, Nero and Modestep form but a fragment of the mass of acts just added to the Global Gatherin roster, which hitherto only hosted lone headliner Skrillex. www.globalgathering.com

GUILFEST, Stoke Park, Guilford, Surrey, 13-15 Jul: Musi-comic and ‘Matilda’ maestro Tim Minchin proves an apt supplement to GuilFest’s tenth anniversary billing, as also boasts the family-suitable presence of Olly Murs, Jools Holland and Jimmy Cliff. www.guilfest.co.uk

HEVY, Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent, 3-6 Aug: Announcing acts with such wild abandon as is only apt for a festival staged in the grounds of a zoo, Hevy staff declare brand new bookings including Sunday headliners Descendents, Cancer Bats, Rolo Tomassi, Shai Halud, Rise And Fall, Municipal Waste, Listener and This Is Hell, all of whom align with the already billed Converge, Will Haven, Deaf Havana, Protest The Hero and Set Your Goals. www.hevy.co.uk

ISLE OF WIGHT, Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, 22-24 Jun: Melanie C, James Walsh, Matt Cardle, Gretchen Peters and EnglanE represent the latest consignments to IOW’s Garden Stage. This lot supplement an existing line up featuring tri-headliners Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen, plus Elbow, Biffy Clyro, Noel Gallagher, Primal Scream, Example, The Darkness, Jessie J, Feeder and Professor Green also playing. www.isleofwightfestival.com

KAYA, Vaynol Estate, Gwynedd, North Wales, 1-3 Jun: This worldly arts and crafts three-dayer enlists Tinchy Stryder, Drymbago, Banda Bacana and EFA Supertramp to a bill also including the previously announced Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Tony Allen, Dub Pistols, Kanda Bongo Man, Ska Cubano and The Craig Charles Funk N Soul Club. www.kayafestival.co.uk

LEMONFEST, Newton Abbot Racecourse, South Devon, 30 Jun: Headlining act Hard Fi are joined by the lesser-billed likes of Cosmo Jarvis, These Reigning Days, Ryan Keen and lunar mod ensemble The Moons on Lemonfest’s fresh and only 2012 line-up. www.lemonfest.co.uk

MEADOWLANDS, Glynde Place, Glyne, East Sussex, 1-3 Jun: Speech Debelle, Lamb, LTJ Bukem and Fink lead the acts confirmed for this year’s Meadowlands, with Skinny Lister, The River Boys, Absent Elk, Maker and Caramel Jack not far behind. www.meadowlandsfestival.com

MEADOWS IN THE MOUNTAINS, Rhodopian Mountains, Bulgaria, 8-10 Jun: Crazy P, Will Saul, Bicep, Riot Jazz, Reggae Roast and Somethink Sounds will all be present at MITM’s inaugural dawning, with Mirko Hector, Dead Echo, Just Jack DJs and Lo*Kee also braced to grace the scenic fest’s twin main stages. www.meadowsinthemountains.com

OUTLOOK, Fort Punta Christo, Pula, Croatia, 30 Aug – 3 Sep: Croatia’s foremost bass fest confirms Skream, Zinc, Andy C, Disclosure and Roska & Jamie George as the latest acts to impact its capacious 2012 line-up list, as also features Phife of A Tribe Called Quest, Gold Panda, Joker, Goldie, Phaeleh and Fat Freddy’s Drop. www.outlookfestival.com

PRIMAVERA SOUND, Par Del Forum, Barcelona, Spain, 31 May – 2 Jun: Suede are fairly late additions to a near-capacity Primavera programme also starring Björk, The Cure, Franz Ferdinand, Laura Marling, The Weeknd, The Rapture, The War On Drugs, A$AP Rocky, Girls and Sharon Van Etten. www.primaverasound.com

RADIO 1’S HACKNEY WEEKEND, Hackney Marshes, East London, 23-24 Jun: Example, Lostprophets, Enter Shikari, Lethal Bizzle, Santigold and US rapper BOB further enrich the running at Radio 1’s Olympic free-for-all, as will also co-star Jay-Z, Deadmau5, Tinie Tempah, Taio Cruz, Florence And The Machine, Professor Green and a host of popular pop types. www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/hackneyweekend/2012/

SPRING STATION SESSIONS, St Pancras International, London, 22 Mar – 4 May: Staged in the bustling midst of London’s commuter/tourist rush hour, this year’s free-to-view Station Sessions will feature sets by Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, The Futureheads, The Wave Pictures and Alt-J across its assorted seven week programme. www.stpancras.com/station-sessions/festival

T IN THE PARK, Balado, Kinross-shire, Scotland, 6-8 Jul: Bombay Bicycle Club, J Cole, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Feeder, Zulu Winter and Benjamin Francis Leftwich share roster room with a horde of aforementioned names, not least The Stone Roses, Kasabian, Snow Patrol, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Florence And The Machine and Simian Mobile Disco. www.tinthepark.com