What is it?

Bestival is now well and truly established as one of the main players in the festival year with over 30,000 revellers descending on Robin Hill, a beautiful leafy country park in the heart of the sunny Isle Of Wight every September. With a hat trick of Best Medium Sized Festival Awards under its belt, Bestival has paved the way for creativity in the festival scene with live music and DJs just the icing in the cake of what's on offer every year. This year's event is 'The Year Of The Spectacular' with a 'Outer Space' fancy dress theme which will see thousands of astronauts, Martians, space ships and moons gather for the now-legendary fancy dress parade on Saturday afternoon. Previous year's special guests have included Grace Jones, The Specials and Madness so start guessing now who'll appear in the much coveted spot in 2009!

Where & When?

Bestival takes place in Robin Hill Country Park, near Downend on the Isle Of Wight on Friday 11th, Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September with camping open from midday, Thursday 10th September.

Who's playing?

Live Acts

65 Days Of Static, A Child Rasputin, Aeos, Alessi's Ark, Altern 8, Baddies, Bastila, Bat for Lashes, Beardyman, Bjorn Again, Black Acid, Blindfold, Bloco Electro, Blue Roses, Boy 8 Bit, Buraka Som Sistema, Casio Kids, Chase & Status Ft. Takura, MC Rage & Plan B, Chew Lips, Coopers Rage, Crazy P, Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Delphic, Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Dirty Projectors, Doves, Drums of Death, Dub Pistols, Eat Static, Ebony Bones!, Efterklang, Elbow, Esser, Fake Bush, Fight Like Apes, Filthy Dukes, Fleet Foxes, Florence and the Machine, Frankmusik, Free Peace, Fresh Legs, Friendly Fires, Frightened Rabbit, Fujiya & Miyagi, Future Sound of London, George Pringle, Golden Silvers, GoldieLocks, Goodbye Stereo, Heartbreak, Hockey, Hudson Mohawke, Introducing, It Hugs Back, Jack Penate, James Yuill, JC & Angelina, Joe Gideon and The Shark, Just Jack, Kid Carpet, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Klaxons, Kraftwerk, La Roux, Laura Izibor, Lily Allen, Little Boots, Lizzy Park(acoustic), Lucky Elephant, Luke Pritchard, Major Lazer, Man Like Me, Maps, Massive Attack, Metronomy, MGMT, Micachu &The Shapes, Michael Nyman, Mika, Mr Hudson, Music from The Penguin Cafe, Napoleon IIIrd, Natty, Newchurch Male Voice Choir, Ohbijou, Orkestra Del Sol, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Paloma Faith, Passion Pit, Peggy Sue, Pivot, Pole, Polly Scattergood, Riva Starr, Rox, Rusko, Seasick Steve, Shanklin Freak Show, Skint & Demoralised, Soulwax, Sound of Rum, Speech Debelle, Sportsday Megaphone, Squarepusher, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Sunny Day Sets Fire, The Acorn, The Adventurists, The Beat, The Big Hairy Band, The Big Pink, The Cordelier Club, The Correspondents, The Cuban Brothers, The Dawn Chorus, The Duloks, The Field, The Ghost, The Gramaphone, The Hat, The Horrors, The Hot Rats, The Mummers, The Pretty Things, The Qemists, The Restaurant, The Shutes, The Subs, They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, Tinchy Stryder, Tommy Sparks, Vetiver, VV Brown, Wave Machines, Workhouse, X-O Man.

DJs

2020 Sound System, 2manydjs, A Skillz, A1 Bassline, Alix Perez, Annie Mac Presents…, Annie Nightingale, Beat Boutique, Benga, Benji B, Bobby Friction, Brian Monaco (Kitchen Party), Broken Heart DJs, Cagedbaby, Carl Cox, Caspa, Chris Coco, Coki, Coley, Daisy Heartbreaker, Derrick Carter, Diplo presents The Mad Decent Soundsystem, DJ Charge, DJ Dan (Propaganda),DJ Derek, DJ Food, DJ Yoda, Dublime presents Appleblim, Martyn & Reso, Fabio & Grooverider, Fake Blood, Fear of Theydon, Feeling Gloomy, Firas (Filthy Few), Flying White Dots, Foamo, Freemasons Friction, Gaz's Rockin Blues, Gilles Peterson, Grum, Hijack, Huw Stephens, Jaguar Skills, Jaymo & Andy George, Johnno (Bugged Out), Joker, Justin Robertson, Karl Hyde & Rick Smith (Underworld) - exclusive DJ Set, Kasra, Krafty Kuts, Kry Wolf, Krysko, L-Vis 1990, Lee Mortimer, Lemonade, London Elektricity & MC Wrec, Michael Cook, Monsters At Work DJs present The Psychedelic Sounds Of Monsterism Island, Outmode, Paul Trouble Arnold, Pete Gooding, Plastician, Price (DPR Recordings), Rachel Barton, Raffertie, Rob da Bank, Robert Luis feat Kinny (Tru Thoughts), Ross Allen, Russ Cuban, Scuba, Skibunny, Skream, Sombrero Sound System, Tayo, The Bloody Beetroots, The Heavenly Jukebox, The Jinks, The Loose Cannons, Tim Boogaloo, Toddla T, Tom Middleton, Zane Lowe.

Dates and Stages TBA.

How do I get tickets?

Tickets are on sale now priced £140 (+ booking fee) for a full adult weekend ticket including camping. Childs tickets are also available and all kids age 12 & under go free (ticket still required) - see Ticketline for full details and prices.

Where can I read more about it?

Check out the official festival site at: www.bestival.net