With a cavalcade of big hitters, including OutKast, Foals, Candi Staton and Chase & Status plus many more already lined up to take Bestival’s 2014 Desert Island Disco to stratospheric new heights, Rob da Bank and the Bestival crew have unveiled even more acts for the September event.
With her third album ‘Nikki Nack’ out this week, Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs will be heading across the Solent to bring her uniquely kaleidoscopic collision of aural extremes for your collective listening pleasure.
Riding a wave of critical acclaim for their eponymous debut album, released late last year, Factory Floor will return to Robin Hill with an all out assault of mind-melting sequences, crashing rhythms and twisted vocals, plus there will be sets from Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and sometime Rudimental collaborator MNEK, deliriously unabashed indie-noise merchants Wolf Alice, exhilarating Glasgow trio The Amazing Snakeheads, critically acclaimed psychedelic doom purveyors Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, apocalyptic surf rockers The Wytches, Danish electropop chanteuse Mø, and scuzzy rock n roll six-piece and all-round incendiary live behemoth Fat White Family.
Bestival curator Rob da Bank says:
“So, in our humble opinion, these are the breaking acts of 2014 from the worlds of rock, indie, electronics and pretty much any genre – a delve inside the musical brain of Rob da Bank to find the ones to watch, the ones who’ll make records you’ll love this summer and the ones who’ll make you dance ya socks off in September”.
That’s not all for Bestival 2014 though, with live music from BBC Sound 0f 2014 nominees Say Lou Lou, hotly-tipped new Oxford band Glass Animals (pictured), genre-swerving pan-global types John Wizards, gritty rocker Ezra Furman, atmospheric soulster Joel Compass, archetypal indie quartet Woman’s Hour, Spanish vocalist and sometime John Talabot collaborator Pional, twisted R&B nightingale Rosie Lowe and hazy psych dudes Childhood.
Also added to the line-up is Kate Tempest, Jessy Lanza, Melt Yourself Down, The Front Bottoms, Hockeysmith, Wild Smiles, Black Orange Juice, Rag N Bone Man, Vaults, FTSE, Tourist, Sivu, God Damn, Happyness, The Correspondents, Bo Saris, CongopunQ, Indiana, The Bulletproof Bomb, Fé and Cousin Marnie.
