The Whip and Roni Size to headline Blissfields

Blissfields has confirmed the headliners for both Saturday and Sunday, who will be playing over the weekend of with The Wonder Stuff who were already announced as closing Friday night.

Topping the bill on the Saturday will be Manchester's indie/dance crossover act The Whip and joining them as Sunday headliner will be Roni Size with Reprazent to end the weekend with a drum'n'bass spectacular.

As well as these headliners other new acts coming to play at the new site, Matterley Bowl, near Winchester (where Homelands used to take place) are Noisettes, Pete and the Pirates, The Rumble Strips, Talk Taxis, The Infadels, Enjoy Destroy, Scarlet Soho, and Rosie Oddie.

The acts who have previously been announced for the three-day festival from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th July are Subgiant, The Pan I Am, Peggy Sue and the Pirates, Soweto Kinch, Imperial Leisure, Subsource, Six Nation State, Chris T-T, Red Eye Banquet, Lazy Habits, Jim Bob, Abdoujaparov, Nathan Flutebox Lee, The Wallbirds, Captain Phoenix, Hush the Many (Heed the Few), Monty and the Butchers, Andy Comley, Echaskech, Life at the Pines, Scarlet Soho, Blisskreig, The Jacks, Subliminal Girls, The Beat Maras, Modernaire, Pistola, Dead!Dead!Dead!, Beans on Toast, Ruth Theodore, and 30,000 Days.

As well as the topflight acts of the Punch Bowl and Manor stages, there will be local input from the neighbouring areas of Southampton, Winchester and Basingstoke atop the Stage Thrice, which on the Sunday will then host acts from The Lock Out, London, a programme of top-quality DJs to take over after sundown and take the music through to sunrise.

The fourth stage will be home to The Living Room presenting acoustic acts from the up and coming grassroots and folk scenes, past performers including Newton Faulkner and Kate Walsh, this year being more eclectic than ever.

Blissfields is an intimate festival for all the family in the heart of the Hampshire countryside. This is a festival for people who want something as far removed from the big commercial festivals as you can get! There will be quality food and beer (including real ales) on sale at very reasonable prices, plenty of fantastic hand-picked food stalls, craft stalls, great workshops for you and the kids, relaxing areas and quirky cafes.

Blissfields is as much about the merrymaking as it is the music, expect a carnival-like atmosphere with juggling, beatbox and DJ workshops, Yallah belly dancers, performances from Panic Circus, story telling and for the first time ever at Blissfields, a mass birthday party for anybody celebrating their day while at the festival.

Tickets are priced at a wallet-friendly £60 for a full weekend pass and can be bought here. That price includes camping.

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