Bestival - News

The Bestival Phone App

The Official Bestival Phone App is now available to download to your handset for only £2.99. There are iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Java versions

Bestival countdown... 9 sleeps 'til Besti!

With Bestival just around the corner we're counting down to the 2010 Year of the Fantastic. And we are very pleased to announce our comedy line up as programmed

New Bestival Charity's gotta lotta Bottle

We are delighted to announce that The Bestival Foundation, a brand new registered charity, has this week been launched with the aim of improving Isle of

Bestival may be sold out... but the line up keeps growing!

With Bestival 2010: The Year of the Fantastic on the horizon, the Bestival crew are a busy bunch, adding last minute touches to this year's show, sprinkling

Bestival signs up to the 10:10 campaign

It won't come as much of a surprise to anyone to find out that we care about the environment at Bestival, you only have to have a quick look around our

With 10 weeks to go Bestival announce even more musical treats

The clock is ticking and the final countdown to Bestival has well and truly begun. As we're just 10 short weeks from the Year of the Fantastic we thought

Bestival 2010 has Sold Out

Our Year of the Fantastic is truly living up to expectations as once again thanks to you Bestival has sold out! With four full months still left to go

Back To The Phuture line up & even more acts announced

With just four months to go until Bestival opens its gates for our Year of the Fantastic, the countdown is on. We have lots of exciting news including

Get Plugged In to Bestival’s Island Band and DJ Competition

The news that the Isle of Wight's super-talented musicians have been waiting for, Bestival's Band & DJ competition is back and it's going to be bigger

Introducing The Bestival Residents...

We're getting giddy here at Bestival HQ with a host of even more amazing names to add to our current line-up and an extra special guest to judge the army

Jonsi (Sigur Ros) & a 'Back To The Phuture' party feat. Heaven 17

With the countdown to Bestival's September shindig well and truly underway we are very pleased to be able to announce some extra special additions to a

The Prodigy to headline Sunday night at Bestival

The good news just keeps on rolling in at Bestival HQ for our Year of the Fantastic! With a line-up that already resembles the stuff that dreams are

Bestival 2010: The Year of The Fantastic

Exciting times in the Bestival bunker as we announce even more acts, including Roxy Music, plus a visionary fancy dress theme - Fantasy! This year's

Bestival's 'Twin' Festival - Melt!

The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF)* has launched a brilliant new initiative, AIF Twin Festivals: A Cultural Exchange, which partners the

Bestival announces The xx, Fever Ray & Richie Hawtin presents Plastikman live

Staying on course to deliver the closest thing to festival nirvana this side of rock n roll heaven, Rob da Bank and the Bestival crew are just too excited

Bestival Goes Flaming Bonkers! 1st Acts Announced...

Live music from:Dizzee Rascal / The Flaming Lips / Hot Chip / LCD Soundsystem / Gil Scott-Heron / Chase & Status / Echo and the Bunnymen / Simian Mobile

The Besti-Blog

Hey folks - we've got so much happening between Bestival, Camp Bestival, Sunday Best Recordings and da Banko's DJing and radio shows not to mention tweets

Bestival & Camp Bestival Triumph... With Thanks To You!

Huzzah and hooray and as many other exultations of unbridled joy that you can think of! The Bestival crew is enormously proud and ecstatically pleased

Bestival 09 Wins An 'Outstanding' Greener Festival Award!

We are delighted to announce that both Bestival and Camp Bestival have been awarded the Greener Festival Award 2009 with Bestival winning it in the ‘outstanding’

Bestival Presents Sunday Best Compilation Album

Rob da Bank’s Sunday Best Recordings stands proudly defiant against the commercial tide as a resolutely independent record label and party-starter

Bestival 2010 Tickets

Now that we’ve all recovered from the excitement overload that was Bestival 2009, we’re already thinking about how to make our 2010 event even

Bestival 2009 - It's Been Out Of This World!

Our sixth Bestival has come to an end and we can safely say that our Year of the Spectacular has been out of this world, blessed with four super sun-drenched

New Bestival IPhone App

Make sure you don’t miss all the unmissable treats at Bestival this year and get our new Bestival iPhone App that will keep you up to speed from

Bestival TV Takes Us Back...

Ever since the second Bestival in 2005 we've been lucky enough to have CC-Lab and Channel 4 on board to capture all the magic over the course of the weekend

Rob Da Bank's A-Z Of Festivals Book

Rob da Bank's A-Z of Festivals : My Life of Mud, Music & Mayhem in 26 Letters is a personal celebration of music, festivals and how they bring people