Club Da Da at Bestival

The UK's largest purveyor of festival weirdness - that's the Continental Drifts crew - head back again to Bestival at Robin Hill Country Park, Isle of Wight from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th September to bring you Club Da Da.

During the day this arena will be hoe-down-tastic! - rocking, rolling and jiving their way through the day! You will also be able to pick up some skills from some hilarious workshops in everything from nipple tassles to the latest gypsy dance moves.

In the evening, this arena goes to another part of the world - a wedding in Hungary, a Bollywood party in Delhi, a fish diner on the beach in Jamaica - bringing the music, dance and performance of those places to life! Then late night it moves into Club Da Da cabaret territory with everything from bizarre surreal exotic performances and circus acts to Air Guitar Championships and people who live in Balloons...

On the Friday there's Stick it on, Blue Bambinos, Freshly Squeezed Music, Voodoo Trombone Quartet, Dynamos Rhythm Aces, The Real Tuesday Weld, Club DaDa, and The Hat, on the Saturday there's Hick Hop Hoe Down, Cut A Shine, Leonard and Bubbas Delicious Goo Goo Cluster, The Surgeons, The Farmers Daughters, The Banjo Widdows, Pathaan, The Twighlight Players, Nathan Flutebox, Nerm, Bobby and Nihal, The Bandish Projekt, and Club DaDa, and finally the Sunday has DJ Nick Luscombe, Tunng, Last Man Standing, Johnny Flynn and Sussex Wit, The Destroyers, Little Cow, Gipsy CZ, Top Cats, and again Club DaDa.

Elsewhere, there's also the Rizla Arena with an eclectic mix of dub, electrofunk, reggae and ska DJs and performers. Friday has James Baillie, The Chancers DJs, Riotous Rockers, Stuart Patterson (Faith), and Terry Hall (The Specials), Saturday has James Baillie, Andy Votel and Pete Fowler, Greg Wilson, Tim Love Lee, and Maurice Fulton, and Sunday has James Baillie, Will Saul, Don Letts, Greg Wilson, and Jim Stanton.

Other acts already confirmed include Chemical Brothers (Friday headliner) Beastie Boys (Saturday headliner), Primal Scream (Sunday headliner), plus Gregory Isaacs, Levellers, The Orb, Gossip, Billy Bragg, The Maccabees, Soul II Soul Soundsytem LIVE!, The Cuban Brothers, Dub Pistols, Calvin Harris, Mr Hudson & The Library, Simian Mobile Disco, Bonde Do Role, Cagedbaby, and many more, plus loads of DJs. For the full line-up details to-date, click here.

Tickets are SOLD OUT.

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