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Festival line-up update: Iceland Airwaves, Wickerman, Secretsundaze Go Bang! and more

By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 14 June 2013

So, today’s main festival headline relates to Glastonbury and booze. Glasto HQ has re-clarified its traditional stance on alcohol, cautioning ticket-holders that any drinks taken into the festival have to be for one’s personal – aka not commercial – imbibition only. Oh, and it all has to be in plastic bottles, not glass.

The bottles can, says Michael Eavis, be carried on site in a shopping trolley (despite an initial email cautioning against trolleys), provided whoever’s shopping the trolley looks capable of drinking its contents his/herself. Which Michael advises, via this official note, that he/she abstain from doing because it isn’t very healthy. Great, since we’re clear on that, it’s time to pass over to a bank of brand new artist gains at the following festivals:

GODIVA, War Memorial Park, Coventry, 5-7 Jul: Devlin, Ghostpoet, Mallory Knox, Lexy and The Kill, and Waylayers, Craig Price, Charlie Brown, Scrufizzer, DeeLayDee, Influential Entertainment, SamSon, Matt Henshaw, The Neville Staple Band, Lee Thompson’s Ska Orchestra, Reggaelators, Riddimstone, The Dualers, Coventry Youth Jazz Orchestra, Pauline Quirke Dance Academy, Three Spires Musical Society, Fletcher Ransberry, Barbershizzle, The Belles of Three Spires, Pandemonium Steel Orchestra, Freeman Dance, The Notables. www.godivafestival.com

HEINEKEN OPEN’ER, Kosakowo Airfield, Gdynia, Poland, 3-6 Jul: The National, Everything Everything, Mount Kimbie, Savahes, Palma Violets, Rykarda Parasol, Pianohooligan, Stroon, Plum, Fuka Lata, Vienio (Profil Pokoleń), Łąki Łan, Ballady i Romanse/Igor Boxx, Sorry Boys, hipiersoniK, Semantik Punk, L.U.C & Motion Trio, Please The Trees, Hot Cassandra. opener.pl

ICELAND AIRWAVES, various venues, Reykjavik, Iceland, 30 Oct – 3 Nov: Midlake, Emiliana Torrini, FM Belfast, Girls In Hawaii, Ólöf Arnalds, Retro Stefson, Amiina, Moses Hightower, Sarah MacDougall, Apparat Organ Quartet, Árstíðir, Royal Canoe, Kiriyama Family, Skúli Sverrisson, Hermigervill, Sun Glitters, Captain Fufanu, Sign, Stafrænn Hákon, Tempel, Leaves, Endless Dark, Nóra, 1860, Dimma, Auxpan, Þórir Georg, Emmsjé Gauti, Kjurr, Nini Wilson. icelandairwaves.is

LEOPALLOOZA, Lower Exe Farm, Bude, Cornwall, 2-4 Aug: Bastille, Jacob Banks,
Swiss Lips, The Skints, Blue Rose Code, Jetta, Wet Nuns, Findlay, Eliza and The Bear, Bebe Black, Straight Lines, Kezia. www.leopallooza.com

LONDON INTERNATIONAL SKA FESTIVAL, various venues, Lonodn, 17-20 Apr: Derrick Morgan, Junior Murvin, Pama International, Mr T-Bone, The Liptones, The Tighten Up Crew, Sounds & Pressure Sound System feat Phil Bush, Little Diane. www.londoninternationalskafestival.co.uk

OPTIMUS ALIVE!, Passeio Maritimo de Algés, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-14 Jul: 2MANYDJS, Stereophonics, Steve Aoki, Wild Belle, Crystal Fighters, Deap Vally, Jamie n Commons, Rhye, DIIV, Linda Martini, Brass Wires Orchestra, The Legendary Tigerman, Matias Aguayo feat Alejandro Paz, Flume, Dezperados, Metro Area, How To Dress Well, Yen Sung, Switchst(d)ance, Time for T, Brodinski and Gesaffelstein, Alex Metric, Daniel Avery, White Haus Live Band, Blaya, Zé Pedro Moura, Mad Called Honey, Max Drum. www.optimusalive.com/en

RAW FEST, Jackson’s Boat, Chorlton, Manchester, 15 Jun: The Creature Comfort, Second Hand Wings, The Drunken Munks, Rum Thief, Chequa, The Mysterians, Brouhaha, Thugs On Wolves, Scott Lloyd, Hawker Reunion, Brad Bromley, Engine, Roots Before Branches, Bad Habit. www.rawfestmanchester.co.uk

REWIRE FESTIVAL, The Hague, Netherlands, 8-9 Nov: Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer, Nils Petter Molvaer & Moritz Von Oswald, Tape, Moon At The Dark, Kelpe. www.rewirefestival.nl

SECRETSUNDAZE GO BANG!, Studio 338/Coronet Theatre, London, 25 Aug: Juan Atkins & Moritz Von Oswald, Omar S, Martyn, Portable, Tama Sumo, Floating Points, Peter Van Hoesen, Trus’me, Ron Morelli, DJ Qu, Will Bankhead, Brawther, Andrew Ashong, Moxie, Giles Smith, James Priestley, LIES v The Trilogy Tapes. www.facebook.com/ssldn

WAKESTOCK, Penrhos, Abersoch, North Wales, 12-14 Jul: Echo And The Bunnymen, Raleigh Ritchie, Yr Eira. www.wakestock.co.uk

WICKERMAN, Kirkcarswell Farm, Galloway, Scotland, 26-27 Jul: Three Blind Wolves, Blood Relatives, Friends in America, Pinact, Arches, Lidh, Eugene Twist, The Deadline Shakes, Plastic Animals, The Velveteen Saints, Prides, Hector Bizerk, Be Like Pablo, MAASK, Casual Sex, The Yawns, The OK Social Club, Willie Campbell, Jemma Tweedie, Garden Of Elks, Book Group, Alarm Bells. www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk