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The lineup for the Isle of Wight Festival 2023 has been released, with some huge names on the bill.Opening the festivities will be Pulp, 12 years after their last performance at the festival.The ...
The Isle of Wight Festival is a British music festival which takes place annually in Newport on the Isle of Wight, England. [1] It was originally a counterculture event held from 1968 to 1970. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The Prodigy, Pet Shop Boys and Green Day will all headline next year’s festival Isle of Wight festival announces all-male headliners for 2024 Skip to main content
The crowd at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 is believed to have been 600,000. The island is home to the Isle of Wight Festival and until 2016, Bestival, before it was relocated to Lulworth Estate in Dorset. In 1970, the festival was headlined by Jimi Hendrix attracting an audience of 600,000, some six times the local population at the time. [142]
The first Jack Up festival was held on 10 and 11 August 2013 on the same site as the Isle of Wight Garlic Festival in Newchurch.The event was held to celebrate 25 years of Wight Crystal water, an Isle of Wight charity selling spring water products, flavours and water coolers, to raise money to fund care services, employment and life-enhancing opportunities for people with a range of disabilities.
Lacklustre: The Stone Roses perform at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2013 (Getty) Alas, the sense of occasion quickly seemed to get the better of both band and crowd. It wasn’t awful.
Isle Of Wight Festival [ edit ] In 2002 the 1971 Isle Of Wight Act [ 13 ] (which banned events on the island with more than 5000 attendees) was overturned in time for the Queen's Golden Jubilee [ 14 ] and Giddings was recruited to revive the Isle Of Wight Festival [ 15 ] - a festival that he first attended as a teenager in 1970.
Ray Foulk is a regular contributor to radio and television programmes about the Isle of Wight Festivals, including: Return to Rock Island, BBC South, 2003. Festival Britannia, BBC Four, 2010. Tom Stroud's 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, Isle of Wight Radio, August 2010. John Hannam Meets Ray Foulk, Isle of Wight Radio, 30 August 2015.