Beautiful Days add Richard Thompson, The Blockheads, and The Wonder Stuff

Richard Thompson, The Blockheads, and The Wonder Stuff, are amongst the latest announcement of acts confirmed for this August's Beautiful Days festival.

Further confirmations announced for the Levellers' own festival are Kissmet, Banco de Gaia, The Broken Family Band, Peatbog Faeries, The Subhumans, Babar Luck, and returning again this year is Frank Turner.

The new names for the line-up also include Jim Moray, Pronghorn, Chris While and Julie Matthews, Will And The People, and Trash City Sound System, with special guest Don Letts.

These are the latest additions to the line-up which will have Hawkwind as Friday night headliners, The Pogues are headlining Saturday night, and Levellers will headline and close the festival, as is traditional, on the Sunday night with a stunning firework finale. Also performing are The Saw Doctors, Gong, Lamb, The Imagined Village, Pendulum (DJ set), Dub Pistols, Cara Dillon, The King Blues, Eliza Carthy, Imelda May, Lau, Edward II, Kris Drever, John McCusker & Roddy Woomble Trio, John Smith, Sonic Boom Six, Les Truttes, Chris T-T, Jay Jay Pistolet, and Ruarri Joseph.

The dates for the seventh Beautiful Days are confirmed as from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd August at Escot Park, near Fairmile, in Devon.

The Devon festival features music across five stages, and street theatre, as well as site art and sculpture, lots of children's activities with a huge children's area in the centre of the festival, theatre, comedy, family camping, camping facilities, licensed bars from local company Otter Brewery, world food, craft stalls, fancy dress, a 'village shop' on site, and more. There is plenty of family camping close to the car parks, which will be clearly signposted.

Tickets for Beautiful Days 2009 are priced as follows.
Adult weekend with camping - £100.00
Aged 10 to under-16 weekend with camping - £60.00
Aged 5 to under-10 weekend with camping - £30.00
Aged 0 to under-5 weekend with camping - £5.00
Campervan pass (must be purchased in advance) - £30.00
Car parking (in advance, more on the gate) - £10.00

To buy tickets, click here.

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