Isle of Wight: more names confirmed
No punning. Too easy. The latest raft of acts have been confirmed for the 2008 Isle of Wight Festival.
New additions include the Kooks, Ian Brown, N.E.R.D., the Hoosiers and Scouting for Girls.
The rest of the bill looks like this:
Kaiser Chiefs
the Sex Pistols
the Police
Lily Allen
the Enemy
Kate Nash
Iggy and the Stooges
James
KT Tunstall
the Zutons
Tickets for the event, which takes place at Seaclose Park in Newport from the 13th ‘til the 15th of June, are on sale now.
50,000 people will be in attendance. 50,000 fans of Tunstall, Hoosiers, SFG in one place? An island, you say? Here’s hoping this plot thickens, with a bomb and a big red button.
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seems to have overtaken V as having the most bland line-up of all the festivals.
Oh god, this is awful.
Shall definitely NOT be going again this year. Thank god the island has Bestival, to balance out the good and the bad.
Underwhelmed
utterly.
Please don't blow IoW up though. It's a lovely place.
Maybe just shoot the festival organisers for dancing on the grave of what I hear people calling the 'British Woodstock'?
I went last year because my traditional festival that weekend, Download, was hideous. Muse, Stones, Groove Armarda and Kasabian were there. That was it, all I deemed worth watching. This year, The Police and Iggy. Sweet.
No thanks.
I more likely to contemplate taking my money back to Download again at this rate. And for the record, that's not going to happen. At all. Ever.
VOMIT
VOMIT.
I grew up on the Isle of Wight... and lived there until I went off to uni. This makes me SAD.
FFS
bastard organisers. That's actually worse than last year's line-up, if it's possible.
I remember when they used to get bands like British Sea Power :-(
disapointed
this year. but the overall line up has been getting worse year on year.
2004 was an awesome line up.. duke spirit, phonics, groove armada, the who, david bowie, delays, manics, jet
so much promise. i blame virgin radio for getting their mits on it
stunning
in it's pointlessness - this really is giving v a run for it's money in the 'where in the world would i have to run to in order to be as far from this festival as possible?' stakes.
and those are some high stakes, friends.
sex pistols
Was i the only one who was there the Sex Pistols were funny, funny, funny, inspiring and wait for it....honest with guts . i used to think it was kind of funny to describe them as the greatest rock band ever, now i think they may be.... they attacked the onslaught of the awful muslim clerics silencing the people which NO other band would dare the fucking cowards. made everyone else look like pantomime horses. please go see them... we need them. god bless the sex pistols.
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