Backpacker BUZZ: Issue 69

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS – U.K.

HOMECOMING, AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND, MAY 2-3, 2009
Featuring 12 arenas and two 14-hour days, Scotland’s newest dance music festival means smaller crowds and cheaper tickets.
Lineup: Armin Van Buuren, Scratch Perverts, Bob Sinclair, Dimitri From Paris, Krafty Kuts and more.

Ticket price: From £55/day. Camping: Yes. homecomingfestival.com

ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES (ATP) – CURATED BY THE BREEDERS, BUTLINS HOLIDAY CAMP, MINEHEAD, ENGLAND, MAY 15-17, 2009
Three ATP Festivals are taking place this year. The lineup for ATP – The Fans’ Strike Back (May 8-10) was chosen by fans. This event is curated by the Breeders. The third event is in the U.S.
Lineup: The Breeders, Throwing Muses, Bon Iver, Foals, Teenage Fanclub, Holy Fuck, CSS, Tricky and more.

Ticket price: From £150. Camping: Self-catered room or room only accommodation included in the ticket price. atpfestival.com

ROCK NESS, DORES (NEAR INVERNESS), SCOTLAND, JUNE 12-14, 2009
Situated on the banks of one of the world’s most infamous lakes, Loch Ness.
Lineup: The Flaming Lips, Basement Jaxx, Placebo, Super Furry Animals, Orbital, Dizzee Rascal, Biffy Clyro, The Prodigy and more.

Ticket price: From £130. Camping: Yes. rockness.co.uk

ISLE OF WIGHT, NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT, JUNE 12-14, 2009
If you need a reason to visit this small island in the English Channel, what better excuse than a festival?
Lineup: Prodigy, Basement Jazz, The Ting Tings, Pendulum, Sterophonics, Razorlight, The Arcadian Kicks, The Charlatans and more.

Ticket price: From £120. Camping: Yes. isleofwightfestival.com

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL, LEICESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND, JUNE 12-14, 2009
Three days of heavy rock music revelry.
Lineup: Slipknot, Def Leppard, Korn, ZZ Top, Marilyn Manson, Dragonforce, Motley Crue, Pendulum, The Prodigy, Limp Bizkit and more.

Ticket price: From £135. Camping: Yes. downloadfestival.co.uk

GLASTONBURY, SOMERSET, ENGLAND, JUNE 24-28, 2009
Increase your chances of bumping into a celebrity by hanging out at Glastonbury.
Lineup: Bruce Springsteen, Franz Ferdinand, Neil Young, Blur, Fleet Foxes and more.

Ticket price: From £175. Camping: Yes. gladstonburyfestivals.co.uk

T IN THE PARK, BALADO (NEAR KINROSS), SCOTLAND, JULY 10-12, 2009
OXEGEN FESTIVAL, NAAS, CO KILDARE, IRELAND, JULY 10-12, 2009
Held the same weekend, these festivals share a similar lineup.
Lineup: Kings of Leon, The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Bloc Party, Keane, Glasvegas, of Montreal, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Paolo Nutini, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lily Allen, Manic Street Preachers, The Ting Tings, Katy Perry, Pendulum, James Morrison, Mars Volta and more.

Ticket price: T in the Park, from £137; Oxegen from €99.50. Camping: Yes. tinthepark.com / oxegen.ie/2009

WICKERMAN, KIRKCUDBRIGHT, GALLOWAY, SCOTLAND, JULY 24-25, 2009
This alternative festival takes place on 120 acres of isolated farmland.
Lineup: Check the website for details.

Ticket price: From £53. Camping: Yes. thewickermanfestival.co.uk

WOMAD, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND, JULY 24-26, 2009
Showcasing music, arts and dance from countries and cultures around the world, WOMAD is an international festival also held in Australia, New Zealand and Spain.
Lineup: Check the website for details.

Ticket price: From £122.34. Camping: Yes. womad.org

THE BIG CHILL, HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, AUGUST 7-9, 2009
Set in a picturesque location and catering to every style, interest and age, this festival’s dance oriented bill is sprinkled with folk, jazz, African and dub. Art, theatre, a live comedy stage and a human fruit machine are also featured.
Lineup: Basement Jaxx, Orbital, David Byrne, Alphabeat (DJ Set), Calexico, Summer of Dub, Mr Scruff, Favela Chic; Comedians Dylan Moran, Russell Peters, and more.

Ticket price: From £70. Camping: Yes. bigchill.net/festival

CREAMFIELDS, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, AUGUST 29-30, 2009
If oonst gets you going, head straight to Creamfi elds—the U.K.’s largest dance party, which has been staged in more than 15 countries.
Lineup: Electronic genre-breaking pioneers from across the DJ and live music spectrum; check the website for details.

Ticket price: From £105. Camping: Yes. creamfields.com

ELECTRIC PICNIC, STRADBALLY HALL, CO LAOIS, IRELAND, SEPTEMBER 4-6, 2009
Billboard magazine described Electric Picnic as “a magnifi cent rock ’n roll circus, a textbook example of everything a festival should be.”
Lineup: Announced in the spring; check the website for details.

Ticket price: From €199. Camping: Yes electricpicnic.ie

BESTIVAL, DOWNEND ISLE OF WIGHT, UK, SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2009
A festival with a fancy-dress code, so dust off your outer-world wear for this year’s theme-Out of Space, 2009: A Space Oddity, Alien.
Lineup: Soulwax, 2manydjsm Kraftwerk, Massive Attack, MGMT, Fleet Foxes, Seasick Steve, Klaxtons, Bat for Lashes, Fabio & Grooverider, Gilles Peterson and more.

Ticket price: From £140. Camping: Yes. bestival.net

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