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Bestival: The Highlight of Summer?
Indie | Monday 30th July 2012 | Osh
The sun might be long gone come September, but this festival looks to shine a little ray of light into the ending of the summer.
Held on the Isle of White, at the Robin Hill Country Park, Bestival looks set to be one not to miss. The four day festival, held this year on 6-10th September, presents us with a line up that offers a perfect mix in nostalgia, history and present day artists. The line up boosts big names from several different scenes ranging from house, dub, indie and soul.
You will find that a number of massive acts immediately catch the eye in the line up, and regardless of how hard you try not to be, you’re likely to be inevitably drawn to the musical genius of Stevie Wonder. New Order and Gary Numan provide the cherry on top of the cake to the musical history of the festival. Meanwhile, recent sensation Jake Bugg provides the opposite end of the spectrum, alongside the forever impressive Florence and the long awaited return of The XX.
As a regular festival goer, my experiences reached its peak last year at Glastonbury 2011, which I can only hark back to now in brief moments of remembrance before becoming teary eyed. The festival offered the ultimate in round the clock music, artists, atmosphere, and to put it simply, general madness. I would not be exaggerating, when upon leaving both the site and my own inebriated state, I was inconsolable at the realisation that there would not be a 2012 festival. The omission of a Glastonbury festival for 2012 is one that has become severely worsened by the cancellation of a number of festivals before even reaching August. Sonisphere was cancelled way back in March and several others have fallen along the way including Bloc, Big Chill and as of 27th July, Underage festival became the latest to join the list of those who have fallen into a coma for another 365 days.
Despite the somewhat bleak outlook proposed by this article so far Bestival proves a vocal point for the summer; maintaining the potential to revenge the innocent festivals that have fallen before it. That is; providing it doesn’t get cancelled.
By Joe Longhurst
