Rebel Sound, Avicii, Chemical Brothers, Tiesto, Axwell & Ingrosso lead first acts for Creamfields

Avicii, Rebel Sound (with Chase & Status, David Rodigan, and Shy FX), and The Chemical Brothers (live) lead the first line-up announcement for this year's Creamfields at Daresbury Estate, near Warrington in Cheshire over August Bank Holiday 2015.

Selling out in record time in 2014, this year’s festival will be building on their winning formula with an array of exclusive performances, 4 Friday headliners, 2 colossal outdoor stages, a 14,000 capacity mega arena never before seen at Creamfields, 22 arenas across the weekend including Cream, Size, All Gone Pete Tong, Mistajam Presents Speakerbox, Pryda, Revealed, Goodgreef and Tidy as well as introducing 7 new arena hosts including Rebel Sound, Paradise, MK Area 10, Fatboy Slim Presents Smile High Club, Armada, ANTS, Nation and Pepsi Max.

Friday's Rebel Sound Arena features Rebel Sound (with Chase & Status, David Rodigan, and Shy FX), plus Sub Focus, Sigma ft. Justyce, Maverick Sabre, Tempa T, Craze, and Dimension b2b Kove, and more to be announced.

Friday also sees Armin Van Buuren headline the Armada Arena with Andrew Rayel, Cosmic Gate, Orjan Nilsen, MarRLo, Mark Sixma, and Jochen Miller.

 Plus Revealed with Hardwell, W&W, Headhunterz , Dannic , Dyro, Sick Individuals, Thomas Newson, Kill the Buzz, and Julian Calor.

And Paradise hosting Jamie Jones, The Martinez Brothers, Eats Everything, Richy Ahmed, and Mark Jenkyns b2b Russ Yallop.

Friday also offers 2 silent discos - The Pepsi Max Arena with Danny Avila, Deniz Koyo, Tujamo, and more to be announced; and Cream Hospitality featuring George Kafetzis, Rob Casson, Adam Wilson, Paul Nunn & James Glover, Aaron Amihere, and Ricochet Musica.

Headlining Saturday's South Stage is Avicii. Joining the Swedish DJ on the main stage line-up are Armin Van Buuren, Martin Garrix, Cazzette, Arty, John Dahlback & Albin Myers.

The Chemical Brothers (live) headline the North Stage, featuring  Above & Beyond, Annie Mac , and It’s about to get Tropical on the North Stage....line up to be announced!

Hardwell takes the helm of Sunday's North Stage with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Nervo, Carnage, R3hab, Gareth Wyn, and special guest Steve Aoki.

On Saturday  Knife Party tops the Cream Stage line-up with support from Alesso, Laidback Luke, Tommy Trash, Dillon Francis, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Danny Howard, Kryder, and Anton Powers.

Tiesto returns to host the South Stage on Sunday featuring AfroJack, DVBBS, Oliver Heldens, Moti, and Dzeko & Torres.

Axwell & Ingrosso return to Cream on Sunday with Robin Schulz, Otto Knows, NEW_ID, Sam Feldt, Tobtok, and more to be announced.

Saturday's Size Matters line-up is Steve Angello, Don Diablo, AN21, Max Vangeli, Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman, Third Party, Sebjak, Grum, Promise Land, Adrian Hour, and more to be announced.

This year Fatboy Slim returns with his Smile High Club on Sunday’s with performances from Duke Dumont, BrEaCh b2b Paul Woolford, The Magician, Destructo, and Alex Adair.

Also on Saturday Pete Tong returns with All Gone Pete Tong and special guest Ten Walls,  and Gorgon City, Hot Since 82, Joris Voorn, Skream, Andhim, Ejeca, Disciples, and Icarus

MK Area 10 on Sunday sees host MK joined by Cajmere vs Oliver Dollar, Hannah Wants, Kevin Saunderson, ShadowChild, Toyboy & Robin, Dantiez Saunderson, Beckwith, and more to be announced.

Sunday also sees Eric Prydz return bringing Maceo Plex, Adam Beyer, Claude Von Stroke, Jeremy Olander, and special guest Sasha along with him to Pryda.

Saturday's Ants Arena will host Seth Troxler, Maya Jane Coles, George Fitzgerald, Kolsch (DJ Set), Jackmaster, Ben Pearce, Los Suruba, and special guest Andrea Oliva.

On Sunday Nation is home to Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Aly & Fila, John O'Callaghan, Simon Patterson, Bryan Kearney, Rob Harnetty, and special guest Paul Oakenfold.

On the same day the Pepsi Max Arena will host Blasterjaxx, Sander van Doorn, Ummet Ozcan, Firebeatz, Julian Jordan, Hardman & Deavall, and more. On Saturday the stage will feature Wilkinson, Philip George, Mike Mago, Redondo, Camelphat, TCTS, DJ SKT, and LilRockit.

Saturday also sees Tidy host an arena with Tidy Boys, Signum, Andy Whitby, Andy Farley, Maddox & Townend, Rob Tissera, Cally Gage, Trap Two, and Max Mozart.

Whilst MistaJam is back with his Speakerbox featuring Preditah, Logan Sama, Slimzee ft. Riko, Flowdan, P Money & Stormzy , Kurupt FM, 99 Souls, Apexape, and special guest Chris Lorenzo.

The line-up is completed with Sunday's Goodgreef Xtra Hard bill of Lab4, Audiofreq vs Kutski, Audiofreq, Kutski, Mark EG, Joey Riot, JP & Jukesy, Argy, Energy Syndicate, Shaun T, Tone, Phil Mackintosh, and Unit 13.

And Cream Hospitality arena hosts Jemmy, Sean Hughes, James Dutton, Josh Demello, Ed Mackie, Alan Hartley, Sean Dougherty, and Gussy on Saturday, and Andy Mac, Junior J, Sam Rice, Adam Cartwright, Bernie Lee, and Paul Dolphin on Sunday.

For the line-up details, day and stage splits, as available please click here.

More acts to be announced over the coming weeks for the clubbing world's large scale outdoor event for 70,000 ravers which will return for the 20th year in 2015 on August bank holiday for three days from early entry Friday 28th until Sunday 30th August.

This year there's a news deposit scheme where festival goers will now be able to split the cost of their tickets over 4 individual payments, this means your payments will be broken down over the next four months and your final 25% of the payment will not be due until April 2015

Tickets will go on sale at 10am this Friday 27th February, and eFestivals will have links to buy them then, priced as follows:

3 Day Tickets

3 Day Standard Camping £180+BF
3 Day Hospitality Camping £270+BF

2 Day Tickets

2 Day Standard Camping £155+BF
2 Day Standard Non-Camping £165+BF
2 Day Hospitality Camping £230+BF

1 Day Tickets

Saturday Standard Day £80+BF
Sunday Standard Day £85+BF
Saturday Hospitality Day £125+BF
Sunday Hospitality £125+BF

There is a strict no pass outs policy at Creamfields. Once your ticket has been scanned upon entry you will NOT be allowed to leave the festival. This event is over 18's event and will be operating a challenge 21 ID Policy.

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