Beautiful Days, Escot Park near Ottery St Mary, 19th to 21st August 2011
This year’s fabulous Beautifl Days festival is just weeks away, with loads of brilliant acts lined up it promises to be another great festival.
Headlining the main stage this year are Carter USM, Big Audio Dynamite, Gogol Bordello and Levellers.
Other acts include Tim Minchin, Flogging Molly, Afro Celt Sound System, Pop Will Eat Itself, I Am Kloot, The Low Anthem, Oysterband, Stereo MCs, Teddy Thompson, Eddi Reader, System 7, The Beat and Kissy Sell Out.
Beautiful Days is the Levellers festival which takes place at Escot Park in the heart of Devon. This year’s festival is the ninth Beautiful Days and all tickets have already sold out.
The family festival boasts five stages, site art, a huge children’s area in the centre of the festival, comedy, theatre, family camping, a healing area, licensed real ale bars from Otter Brewery and carefully selected food and craft stalls.
The Sunday theme for 2011 is Spots and Polka Dots.
Full line up.
Main Stage
FRIDAY 19th AUGUST
BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE
Gogol Bordello
I Am Kloot
The Jim Jones Revue
Hugh Cornwell
Skinny Lister
Ben Howard
SATURDAY 20 AUGUST
CARTER USM
Afro Celt Sound System
Pop Will Eat Itself
Paul Heaton
The Blockheads
Gentleman’s Dub Club
The Mob
Backbeat Soundsystem
The Strange Death of Liberal England
SUNDAY 21 AUGUST
LEVELLERS
Flogging Molly
Stereo MCs
Divokej Bill
The Beat
Wolf People
Mojo Fury
The Big Top
FRIDAY 19 AUGUST
THE LOW ANTHEM
John Grant
4 Men and A Dog
Lau
Levellers Acoustic
Sheelanagig
Sean Lakeman & Kathryn Roberts
Caroline Herring
SATURDAY 20 AUGUST
OYSTERBAND
Roddy Woomble
Eddi Reader
The Bad Shepherds
Dizraeli and the Small Gods
Jackie Oates
The Young Coppers
Dan Donnelly
Acoustic Magazine winner
SUNDAY 21 AUGUST
SALSA CELTICA
Teddy Thompson
Alabama 3 Acoustic & Unplugged
Tim Minchin
James Yorkston
Rory McLeod
Dave McPherson
Dogan & The Deerhunters
Sean Taylor
Fabulous Good Time Party Boys
The Little Big Top
Scary Dave presents’ comedy on the Saturday and Sunday afternoon in The Little Big Top with Sol Bernstein, Dougie Dunlop, Debra-Jane Appelby, Paddy Lennox, Bentley, Scott Denyer, Rich Allen, Nick Page, Bob Mills, John Warburton, Pierre Hollins, Ola, Sully O’Sullivan, Ben Schofield and Chris Brooker.
Kissy Sell Out with lighting and visuals by Know1 plus DJ Friction, Sigma, Trolley Snatcha, Steve Hillage’s System 7, Mr Nice, Maxxi P, Sunfish, DJ Ambiessence vs Bostin Powers, The FOS Brothers, The Beadle, Minor Planet, Fred V & Grafix, Spinna Old Skool, Richmond, MC Jonny G, Agony, Reality, Phantom, Ben & Lex, Lewah and Pharma complete the bill for the evenings in The Little Big Top.
New for 2011 is the SILENT DISCO which will take place on Saturday and Sunday night in the The Little Big Top.
The line-up of spoken word and alternative performances on Dirty Davey’s Bandstand and music at The Bimble Inn are still to be announced.
Stage times for the three days will be announced at the event.