There’s just four months to go until we unveil the full majesty of this year’s Bestival! With a brand new site layout and some absurdly groovy new attractions, Bestival HQ is a hive of furious activity, putting the finishing touches to another madcap marvel. Always endeavouring to create an incredible experience we have lined up two rather tasty exclusives that are guaranteed to rock the party!

First up, bona fide master of the ones and twos (and threes – he’s a three-deck wizard) Carl Cox will be stepping up to the turntables to throw down an awesome old skool set in the Big Top. 100% certain to whip any crowd into a giddy mess Carl was the first person to be crowned ‘Number 1 DJ In The World’ by DJ mag and his sets have never failed to tear it up, from Awesome 3 and King Bee to Shades of Rhythm and Shut Up & Dance, Carl will be dealing solely in classic dancefloor bombs in what will be a UK festival excusive.

And the exclusives don’t stop there. Last year’s Sunday night headliners Underworld had so much Bestival fun that they’re returning to Robin Hill Country Park for a world exclusive DJ set on the main stage, counting down to Kraftwerk’s Saturday night headline slot. It’s the first time Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have made manoeuvres on the wheels of steel together as Underworld at any festival worldwide, so make sure you don’t miss out.

From deep inside the Bestival bunker Rob da Bank says:

“Carl Cox and Underworld have both soundtracked my raving years and both have smashed it at Bestival before. I’m grinning like a fool at the prospect of Karl and Rick warming up the Bestival masses before Kraftwerk and Coxy tear the roof off the Big Top on Sunday night. I’ll make sure I’m not DJing at the same time as him this year!”

If that wasn’t enough, Bestival keep up the brill bookings with Mr Hudson and The Library, fresh from working on his album with Kanye West. Other ace new acts include the massively-tipped Paloma Faith, superb techno artist The Field, Richard Fearless from Death In Vegas’ new band Black Acid, Brooklyn’s finest Dirty Projectors, scary mutant beats man Drums Of Death (the debut of his new 3-piece live show), northern beat poet Skint And Demoralised, pumping breaks don Krafty Kuts, funky beatsmith Jaguar Skillz and The Heavenly Jukebox DJ wing of the much-loved indie label.

Last but by no means least is another dance music legend – Tom Middleton, who’ll be working his magic on the new Afterburner Stage straight after Kraftwerk. Who better than the man synonymous with deep groovesome aliases like Link, Global Communications, Jedi Nights and Cosmos to round off a dream sequence of electronic music pioneers, at what promises to be a golden festival moment for years to come.

Make sure you keep checking www.bestival.net for all the latest information.

Live Acts:

65 Days Of Static / 2020 Sound System / A Child Rasputin / Alessi’s Ark /Altern8 / Baddies / Bastila / Bat For Lashes / Bjorn Again / Black Acid /Blindfold / Bloco Electro / Blue Roses / Casio Kids / Chase & Status / Chew Lips / Coopers Rage / Cordelier Club / Crazy P / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Delphic / Dent May / Dinosaur Pile Up / Diplo Presents Mad Decent Soundsystem – Boy 8 Bit, Buraka Som Sistema, Major Lazer, Rusko / Dirty Projectors / Doves / Drums Of Death / Dub Pistols / Eat Static / Ebony Bones / Efterklang / Elbow / Esser / Fight Like Apes / Filthy Dukes / Fleet Foxes / Florence & The Machine / Frankmusik / Free Peace / Fresh Legs / Friendly Fires / Frightened Rabbit / Fujiya & Miyagi / Future Sound Of London / George Pringle / Golden Silvers / Goldie Lookin’ Chain / Goodbye Stereo / Heartbreak / Hockey / Introducing / It Hugs Back / Jack Penate / James Yuill / Joe Gideon & Shark / Just Jack / Kid Carpet / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / Klaxons / Kraftwerk / La Roux / Lily Allen / Little Boots / Lizzy Parks / Lucky Elephant / Maps / Man Like Me / Massive Attack / Metronomy / MGMT / Michael Nyman / Micachu & The Shapes / Music From The Penguin Café / Napoleon 111rd / Natty / Orkestra Del Sol / Ou Est Le / Skint And Demoralised / Swimming Pool / Passion Pit / Peggy Sue / Pivot / Pole / Polly Scattergood / Rox / Seasick Steve / Soulwax / Sound Of Rum /Speech Debelle / Sportsday Megaphone / Squarepusher / The Adventurists/ The Beat / The Big Pink / The Big Hairy Band / The Cuban Brothers / The Dawn Chorus / The Duloks / The Ghost / The Hat / The Horrors / The Mummers / The Pretty Things / The Shutes / The Subs / They Came From The Stars I Saw Them / Tinchy Stryder / VV Brown / Wave Machines / Workhouse / Xo-Man

DJs / MCs:

2manydjs / A1 Bassline / , A Skillz / Alix Perez / Annie Mac Presents / Annie Nightingale / Beardyman / Beat Boutique / Bloody Beetroots / Brian Monaco (Kitchen Party) / Broken Heart DJs
Cagedbaby / Caspa / Chase And Status / Chris Coco And Pete Gooding / Coki /Coley (Luv Jam) / Daisy Heartbreaker / Derrick Carter / Diplo / DJ Charge / DJ Dan (Propaganda) / DJ Derek / DJ Food / DJ Yoda / Dublime Presents – Appleblim, Martyn, 2562 & Reso / Fabio & Grooverider / Fake Blood / Feeling Gloomy DJs, Firas (Filthy Few)/ Flying White Dots / Foamo /Freemasons / Fear of Theydon / Friction / Gaz’s Rockin Blues / Gilles Peterson / Goldie Locks / Hijack/ Huw Stephens / Jaguar Skillz / Jaymo And Andy George / Johnno (Bugged Out) / Joker / Justin Robertson / Karl Hyde & Rick Smith (Underworld) / Kasra / Krafty Kuts / Kry Wolf / Krysko / L Vis 1990 -Mad Decent Soundsystem / Lee Mortimer /London Elektricity / Luke Pritchard (Kooks) / Michael Cook / Monsters At Work DJs / Outmode / Paul Trouble Arnold / Plastician / Price (Dpr Recs) Raffertie / Rachel Barton / Riva Starr / Rob da Bank / Russ Cuban / Scuba /Sombrero Sound System / Skream /Tayo / The Correspondence / The Heavenly Jukebox / Tim Boogaloo / Toddla T / Tom Middleton / Tru Thoughts (Robert Luis & Kinny) / Zane Lowe

Island Day:

Blank Beats / Cooly Haste /Goodbye Stereo / Guy Page Trio / Hugo Fruslinky / JC and Angelina / Joe Stilgoe / Lucid / Papa Do Plenty / Santa Spirita / Simon Shelley / Sun Down City / The Chancers / The Gramophone / The Kurves / The Operators / The Gramaphone (Island Band) / The Shoots / Wightlight Orchestra

And many more acts to be announced…

Tickets available now from: www.bestival.net / Ticketline: 08700 667753 (24 hr) / www.lastminute.com

Ticket + Ferry Packages available now from:

Red Funnel – www.redfunnel.co.uk/bestival / 0844 844 9988
Wightlink – www.wightlink.co.uk/bestival / 0871 376 1000

Bestival 2009 Ticket prices:
Adult Weekend Tickets – £140
Age 13 to 15 Child Weekend Tickets – £70
Age 12 & Under Child Weekend Tickets – FREE (ticket required)
Campervan Tickets – £50 (per vehicle)

NB: All under 18’s must be accompanied by a Ticket-holding parent or guardian over the age of 21. And one ticket holding parent or guardian can only accompany up to 4 people under the age of 18.

All Tickets:
- include camping.
- will incur a booking fee.
- are non-transferable and cannot be re-sold.