Isle of Wight Festival

Isle of Wight Festival 2012

The festival will take place on Friday 22 - Sunday 24 June 2012

After celebrating a spectacular sold out 10th anniversary in 2011, the Isle of Wight Festival is back with a bang. It has been announced that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will headline the Friday, Pearl Jam will headline the Saturday and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are to headline the Sunday of the festival.

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Friday line-up

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Feeder, Elbow, Example and Noah and The Whale, plus Groove Armada present Red Light in The Big Top, Crystal Castles, Kelis, Caro Emerald, with Penguin Prison and Best Coast on The Garden Stage.

Saturday line-up

Pearl Jam, Biffy Clyro, Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Labrinth, Professor Green, Wretch 32, Loick Essien, Clement Marfo & The Frontline, and Madness, Boyce Avenue, Magnetic Man and Stooshe in The Big Top and The Charlatans, Terry Reid, Miles Kane and The Real D'Coy on The Garden Stage.

Sunday line-up

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, The Darkness, Band of Skulls, Joan Armatrading and The Vaccines, plus Black Stone Cherry, Spector, Zulu Winter, The Milk and Switchfoot.

   

For one year only the Festival is moving from its usual weekend to Friday 22 - Sunday 24 June, to make way for the Diamond Jubilee and half term celebrations.

John Giddings, Festival Promoter, says "We have been advised by the ferry companies that to run the same week as half term and the Jubilee would be problematic for our audience and production infrastructure. We have therefore taken the executive decision to move, for one year only, to 22/23/24 June 2012 to ensure a smooth journey for everyone and to get the entire infrastructure on and off the island."

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22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

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