Timo Maas for Solfest as a UK exclusive

German Techno DJ Timo Maas leads the latest acts for the dance tent at the eighth Solfest takes place on August Bank Holiday weekend from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th August 2012.

Timo Maas will play a special 2 hour set appearing exclusively at Solfest as part of his 2012 world tour, and it will be the only chance to see him on UK soil.

Also joining the previously announced Eat Static, and System 7 on the dance tent line-up are Elite Force, DJ Templehead, Run Riot, Slamboree, Key Lo & Dr $icknote, and Mr Psik & G-Cut .

They join The Waterboys, Big Country, Adam Ant & The Good The Mad & The Lovely Posse, KT Tunstall, Billy Bragg, The South, The Duke Spirit, Transglobal Underground, The Bootleg Beatles, Saint Jude, Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six, Yes Sir Boss, Tarras, Fiona Clayton, Kitchie Wud, Strangefruit, Nina Nesbitt, Larkin Poe, Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo, Aberfeldy, The Baghdaddies, Belleruche, Bellevue Rendezvous, The Hut People, Man's Ruin, Roddy Woomble, This Is The Kit, Walsh and Pound, Pikey Beatz, The Talks, Davey Horne & The Golden Pipes, More From Jim, The BoobyTraps, Surfin' Turnips, Nikki Rous, Heidi Browne, Ford & The Shouts, Riff-X, House Of Three Hands, and more.

For the line-up details as available please click here.

There will be seven stages of entertainment to be announced in total with a host of other folk, pop and rock bands appearing across the weekend.

Solfest is ran almost entirely by a group of volunteers whose aim has always been to create a festival where all generations of family can relax together, where young and old can find entertainment around every corner.

The festival includes free camping, free parking (next to your tent), plenty of food from around the world, a licensed bar (or you can bring your own), sculptures, a healing area, adult workshops, craft stalls, walkabout performances and theatre, a baby area, fire performances, an acoustic music session tent, and more.

An adult ticket is priced at £95 and a young persons (aged 12-16 years) ticket is priced at £65. A Thursday camping ticket is priced at £10, a child (aged 6-11 years) ticket is priced at £25, and a child under 5 ticket is free, but they still need a ticket.

To buy tickets, click here.

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