Robots In Disguise and more for Blissfields

Family friendly festival Blissfields has confirmed new acts coming to play at the new site, Matterley Bowl, near Winchester (where Homelands used to take place) they are electric-pioneers Robots In Disguise, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, nu-grime hero Lethal Bizzle, acoustic country blues band Mumford And Sons, and six piece festival favourites The All New Adventures Of Us (Tanaou).

The acts who have previously been announced for the three-day festival from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th July are The Wonderstuff, The Whip, Roni Size Reprazent, 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. With more acts still to be announced, including top-end billed artists to unveil.

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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