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Isle Of Wight Festival has confirmed more acts for its 2025 line-up, including Razorlight, English Teacher, Yard Act and more.The annual event is due to take place from June 19 to 22 at Seaclose Park, and back in September it was confirmed that Justin Timberlake, Sting and Stereophonics would be joining as headliners.A new batch of acts have now been added to the line-up. Playing alongside Razorlight, Yard Act and English Teacher are Midge Ure, Pale Waves, Twin Atlantic, Alessi Rose, Amble and Nieve Ella.Also joining the bill are Arthur Hill, Mae Muller, Matilda Mann, The Lilacs, Rhythm Of The 90s, Emmanuel Kelly and the UK’s Eurovision 2025 entry Remember Monday.A post shared by Isle of Wight Festival (@isleofwightfest)Other artists included in the initial announcement were Faithless, Example, The Script, Clean Bandit, James, Paul Heaton, Olly Murs, The Lottery Winners, The Lathums, Alison Moyet and Dean Lewis.More acts were added in November, including Jess Glynne, Supergrass – playing their debut album ‘I Should Coco’ in full – Busted, The Corrs, Amy MacDonald, Ella Eyre, and indie bands Lightning Seeds and The Pigeon Detectives.At the time of the first line-up drop, the festival’s promoter John Giddings said: “What a line-up we have in store already for the next edition of The Isle of Wight Festival.

Supergrass, Busted and more. Find out more below.The annual event is due to take place from June 19 to 22 at Seaclose Park, and back in September it was confirmed that Justin Timberlake, Sting and Stereophonics would be joining as headliners.Other artists included in the initial announcement were Faithless, Example, The Script, Clean Bandit, James, Paul Heaton, Olly Murs, The Lottery Winners, The Lathums, Alison Moyet and Dean Lewis.Sting is set to kick off festivities on Friday night (20) as part of his ‘STING 3.0’ world tour, with Stereophonics topping the bill on Saturday (21), before Timberlake closes the festival on Sunday night (22).Now, even more artists have been added to the bill, including Jess Glynne, who is set to perform her numerous chart-toppers including ‘Rather Be’ and ‘My Love’ at the site.

Isle of Wight Festival organisers have revealed the first part of the 2025 line-up - and if you're a fan of music from the 90s there are a trio of rock-solid performers who are going to be playing.Topping the bill so far are Sting, Stereophonics and Justin Timberlake, who will headline Friday, Saturday and Sunday night respectively. The festival, which is being held from 19-22 June at Seaclose Park on the Isle of Wight, have also confirmed other acts performing over the weekend including Irish rockers The Script, dance-pop group Clean Bandit, rapper and musician Example, rock bands James and Texas, pop star Olly Murs and music legend Alison Moyet.

Justin Timberlake, Sting and Stereophonics have been announced as the first headliners at Isle Of Wight Festival 2025.The annual event is due to take place from June 19 to 22 at Seaclose park, where artists including Faithless, Example, Teddy Swims, The Script and more will also perform alongside Clean Bandit, James, Paul Heaton – featuring special guest singer Rianne Downey – Olly Murs, The Lottery Winners, The Lathums, Alison Moyet and Dean Lewis. Many more acts are due to be announced ahead of the event.Early bird tickets for the Isle Of Wight Festival 2025 have already sold out, and general sale tickets go live this Wednesday (September 25) from 8am BST.

Isle of Wight Festival boss John Giddings has said that Oasis are likely to decline an offer to headline Glastonbury because of the festival’s low artist fees.In August, the newly-reformed Britpop group shut down reports about a potential slot at Glastonbury, and said they would not be appearing at “any other festivals next year”, with their 2025 reunion tour existing as their exclusive performances.Speaking at ‘Experience 25’ – an exhibition celebrating the history of the IOW Fest – Giddings explained (via The Mirror) that both his own festival and Glastonbury “can’t afford” to have Oasis as headliners anyway, “because they want money”.The festival boss said that other acts, however, would perform at Glastonbury “for 10p”.Giddings is a music agent and promotor, and serves as the managing director of Solo Music Agency. He has previously worked for the likes of David Bowie, and represented artists such as Lady Gaga, The Police and Simple Minds.Glastonbury famously offers low pay for artists.

Isle Of Wight Festival boss John Giddings has defended Oasis over the backlash they received about ticket prices for their 2025 reunion tour.Speaking at ‘Experience 25’ – an exhibition celebrating the history of the IOW Fest – Giddings explained (via Music News): “I think that they expected a big demand, I don’t think they expected more than 10 million people to apply for over a million tickets.“What people don’t realise, what the general public don’t appreciate, is that within a ticket price 20 per cent of it goes to the government in VAT before you begin.”He continued: “It’s 10 times more expensive to put on shows since COVID, since Brexit, since all of that, and artists want to present a show. The back screen, the fireworks and everything going off with it.“That’s what audiences want because we can see by the number of tickets they’re buying.

Sex Pistols and Frank Carter have added an extra show to their run of gigs at London’s Bush Hall in August.It was announced earlier this week that Carter would be joining Glen Matlock, Paul Cook and Steve Jones to play ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ in its entirety to raise funds for the Shepherd’s Bush venue.After the dates on August 13 and 14 sold out, they have now added a third show on August 15. Any remaining tickets are available here.Speaking about the shows, Cook said via a press release: “We’re doing a benefit for Bush Hall with the famous Frank Carter. We’re going to be playing Pistols numbers cause they need support and they need the money.

Frank Carter and the Sex Pistols‘ Glen Matlock, Paul Cook and Steve Jones have announced plans to play ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ in its entirety for two concerts.Both acts will be performing together at London’s Bush Hall on August 13 and 14 in order to raise funds to preserve the venue.Tickets for the gigs go on sale this Wednesday at 10am BST. Details of how to purchase tickets will be revealed in due courseSpeaking about the shows, Cook said via a press release: “We’re doing a benefit for Bush Hall with the famous Frank Carter. We’re going to be playing Pistols numbers cause they need support and they need the money.

Isle Of Wight Festival has announced the first line-up for its 2024 edition, with Green Day, Pet Shop Boys and The Prodigy set to headline.The iconic event is due to take place at Seaclose Park in Newport between June 20-23.

Abbey Clancy, her husband Peter Crouch and Denise van Outen were just a handful of the stars getting their groove on at the Isle Of Wight festival on Friday.  The four-day annual festival kicked off on Thursday and boasts an impressive line-up, including Lewis Capaldi, Kasabian, Pete Tong and Muse. The bunch of celebrities, also including Kimberly Wyatt and her husband Max Rogers, enjoyed the perks that came with their trip as they were transported in a buggy.

Peter Crouch has left fans in giggles as he resorted to watching the North London derby on his phone after taking wife, Abbey Clancy, and their children to watch a Little Mix concert at The O2 arena.The former Tottenham Hotspur footballer, 41, couldn't let a night out with his family distract him from his former side taking on rivals Arsenal. Sneaky Peter was caught out by wife Abbey, 36, who uploaded a video of her sheepish husband glancing down at his phone as the girl band took to the stage, The couple share children Sophia, 11, Liberty, six, and Johnny, four, but it's unclear which ones attended.The family were also joined by music agent John Giddings.

Sir Tom Jones is leading the charge to save the music festival season – saying it will be "magnificent" to be back on stage again.

Jess Glynne‘s booking at next year’s Isle of Wight Festival has raised eyebrows on social media, after festival boss John Giddings said in 2019 that the singer would “never be booked to play the Isle of Wight again”.This year’s Isle of Wight Festival was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, but organisers have pressed on with arranging the 2021 edition and this morning (June 12) announced the first names for next year’s festival.Fans of the festival have been surprised to discover Glynne’s name on the bill for the 2021 Isle of Wight Festival, given that the singer was seemingly banned for life from appearing at the festival again after she cancelled her slot at the 2019 event at the last minute.Glynne later said that she pulled out of