Splendour Festival in Nottingham 2015 PREVIEW

The Specials

Summer is in the air, Splendour Festival is coming on July 18 and Nottingham's beautiful Wollaton Park will be hotting up with a scorcher of a line-up across three music stages, phew!

Headlining the all dayer will be the eagerly-anticipated legendary 2 Tone revivalists The Specials on the main stage along with special guests James who'll be playing their anthemic hits ‘Sit Down', ‘She’s A Star’ and ‘Laid' plus music from their 13th studio album La Petite Mort which was released last year to critical acclaim. And headlining the Confetti Stage will be none other than Bananarama, one of the most successful all female pop bands of all time with no less than an incredible 32 Top 40 UK hits, followed by Birmingham indie-rockers The Twang and Mansfield band Ferocious Dog.

James

Pop rockers Lawson will also be performing on the main stage along with MOBO award winner, vocalist and rapper Roots Manuva and Amber Run, who formed at Nottingham University and the whole festival will be kicked off by a performance by the winner of the Future Sound of Nottingham competition, Suspect Alibi.


Meanwhile, cheeky-chappie Brummie Andy Robinson will be compering the Funhouse Comedy stage which will showcase performances by D. Montfort, the Sunderland psychic creation of character comedian Tom Binns, musical comedy act Lost in Music, presenter Ellie Taylor of BBC3 dating show 'Song, Marry, Avoid', Aussie improviser John Robertson and musical comedy duo Jollyboat and there'll also be plenty of entertainment for children at the festival including fairground rides and a free kids area hosted by Big Top Mania, featuring circus skills workshops and shows, crazy inflatables, giant bubbles and Big Bear's Big Balloon Disco.


Splendour 2015 Line Up: 

Bananarama

MAIN STAGE                             
The Specials
James
Indiana
Lawson
Roots Manuva
Amber Run      
To Kill A King
NUSIC Competition Winner Suspect Alibi

CONFETTI STAGE
Bananarama
The Twang      
Ferocious Dog
Iris Gold
Keto
The Swiines
Georgie

COMEDY STAGE
Andy Robinson (Compere)
Ian D. Montfort
Christian Reilly
Ellie Taylor
John Robertson
Jollyboat

ACOUSTIC ROOMS STAGE
Joy Mumford
Eyre Llew        
Hhymn
Jamie Lawson
Molly and Jack
RJMARKS
Daudi Matsiko
Cedric Peters


Tickets for Splendour start at £20 for 11-17-year-olds and £34 for adults with a citycard. Children 10 and under go free. Available from www.splendourfestival.com

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