Biography for Wychwood Music Festival
"Wychwood is like a bijou Glastonbury, the perfect way to ease into the festival season." - The Independent
Wychwood Music Festival will return to Cheltenham Racecourse for its fourth year on 30 May - 1 June 2008 with over 80 artists on four stages.
Announced so far:
Friday:
The Proclaimers
Robyn Hitchcock & Friends
Dreadzone
Misty's Big Adventure
The EpsteinKasai Masai
Maladies of Belafontaine
The Black Bloc
Air CavThe Eden Four
"Whose Line is it Anyway" Impro show with Andy Smart, Steve Steen, Stephen Frost, and stand-up comedy from Jeff Green Barry Dodds and Ben Schofield, and The Silent Disco.
Saturday:
Duffy
The Divine Comedy
Orchestra Baobab
The Blockheads
Palladium
Spiers & Boden
Piney Gir
School of Language
Kissmet
Stornoway
Mor KabasiChris Letcher
The Nearly Men
Ivan Campo
Rachel Kichenside
Dan Collins & Dave RiggMarcus Bonfanti & The Bad BoysThe Quiet MenHeavy Load
The New Delamores
Islands Lost at Sea
Breaking the Illusion
Dirty Fakirs
The Loungs
Desperately Not Yoko
"Whose Line is it Anyway" Impro show with Phill Jupitus, Andy Smart, Steve Steen, Stephen Frost, and stand-up comedy from Sean Lock, the Mundo Jazz Band, and The Silent Disco.
Sunday:
The Imagined Village - featuring Billy Bragg, Simon Emmerson, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Sheila Chandra, Andy Gangadeen from The Bays, Francis Hylton, Johnny Kalsi from The Dhol Foundation, Barney Morse Brown, Sheema Mukherjee and Chris Wood.
Kate Rusby
Transglobal Underground
Emma Pollock
Dengue Fever
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset3 Daft MonkeysThe Wonderstuff's Miles Hunt & Erica Nockalls
The Young RepublicRichard WaltersKaren David
Jenny Bromley
Butler & Williams
Kathryn EdwardsIsabel Hayworth
The Steals
The Tragics
Rainbow Trout
It's a Buffalo
The Travelling Band
...and stand-up comedy from Dave Johns, Terry Saunders, Damion Larkin and The Silent Disco.
As to the rest of the line-up, festival-goers should expect the same eclectic mix of music that they have experienced in previous years, as well as more than 100 workshops for all ages, solar-powered cinema, comedy and fine food and drink.
Making the most of its early June dates, Wychwood has already established itself as a great way to start the festival season for the dedicated festival-goers and an inspiring first festival for those who are new to the experience.
