BoomTown Fair's final District line-up announced

Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto, Fishbone & more for ChinaTown

By Scott Williams | Published: Wed 4th Mar 2015

BoomTown Fair 2015 - Less Than Jake
Photo credit: Chris Mathews

BoomTown Fair 2015

Thursday 13th to Sunday 16th August 2015
Matterley Estate, near Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 1HW, England MAP
tier 3 - £155 for the weekend
Daily capacity: 45,000

BoomTown Fair's ChinaTown District, has announced it's line-up of ska, ska punk, and punk with Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto, and Fishbone topping the bill. This us the final line-up announcement.

Chapter Seven of the immersive, theatrical and artistic festival with an on going narrative for around 45,000 festivalgoers takes place at Matterley Estate, nr. Winchester, in Hampshire and will run from Thursday 13th until Sunday 16th August 2015.

The rest of the line-up features The Beat, Dub Pistols, King Prawn, Snuff, The Interrupters, Ruts DC, Capdown, The Rumjacks, Subhumans, MDC, Inner Terrestrials, The Dualers, Babyhead, The Creepshow, The Mahones, Demented Scumcats, Random Hand, The Restarts, 7 Seconds of Love, Los Albertos, New Town Kings, Maroon Town, Radical Dance Faction (RDF), The Simmertones, P.A.I.N, King Porter Stomp, 1Eye, The Talks, The Jellycats, Big Red Ass, China Shop Bull, Beat The Red Light, Graveyard Johnnys, The Roughneck Riot, AOS3, ChainSka Brassika, The Skarsoles, Counting Coins, The Bar Stool Preachers, The Junk, Victims of Circumstance, Ducking Punches, The Sporadics, The Defekters, Popes of Chillitown, Johnny Cage & the Voodoogroove, Mad Apple Circus, Cut Capers, Will Tun and The Wasters, Crinkle Cuts, Regime, Stiff Joints, Broken 3 Ways, Dive, Guns of Navarone, The Apocryphalites, The Snare, Rags Rudi, Shoot The Moon, Oscillator, The Piratones, Junior Bill & The Scallies, The Pisdicables, Melosa, Bigtopp, Euphony, Fingertrap, Key Lime Pi, Offbeat Offensive, The Slytones, Conway, Count Skylarkin, Dirty Casino, DJ Alder Skanker, and Last Gang In Town DJs.

They join Noisia, Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello, Caravan Palace, Streetlight Manifesto, Fishbone, The Beat, Dub Pistols, Slamboree, Dubioza Kolektiv, Matisyahu, Alborosie, Cham feat. O, Turbulence, Cutty Ranks, Ward 21, Katchafire, David Rodigan, Natty, Gentleman's Dub Club, Chopstick Dubplate presents Jah Mason & Demolition Man, Mungos Hi Fi, The John Butler Trio, Amadou & Mariam, Dreadzone, Transglobal Underground, Peatbog Faeries, Edward II, Songhoy Blues, Ibibio Sound Machine, Infected Mushroom, Ace Ventura, Perfect Stranger, Juno Reactor, Stephen Marley, Soja, Matisyahu, Alborosie & Shengen Clan, Barrington Levy, Anthony B, Protoje & The Indiggnation, Black Uhuru, Cham feat. O, Cutty Ranks, Turbulence, Ward 21, Katchafire, David Rodigan, Shy FX & Stamina, Chopstick Dubplate presents Jah Mason & Demolition Man, Natty, Gentleman's Dub Club, Mungos Hi Fi feat YT & Charlie P, The Heatwave, Serial Killaz, General Levy, Aba Shanti Soundsystem, RSD featuring Joe Peng, Gorgon Sound, Benny Page, O.B.F & Shanti D, Capdown, King Prawn, The Mahones, The Rumjacks, The Interrupters, Beans on Toast, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Moulettes, Mad Dog Mcrea, Monster Ceilidh Band, RSVP, Cocos Lovers, HoneyFeet, 47soul, Symphonica feat Mr Switch, La Complet Mandique, The Firepit Collective, No Go Stop, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, Swingrowers, The Gaslight Troubadours featuring Professor Elemental, Odjbox, Brass Band Remix: Dutty Moonshine Brass Band, The Fontanas, DJ Tofu Vs Brass Funkeys, Trans-Siberian March Band, Grant Lazlo, Smerins Anti-Social Club, Too Many T's,Gipsy-Ska Orkestra, Kate Tempest, Jungle Brothers, Goldie Lookin' Chain, High Focus Records Takeover, Mark EG, Chris Liberator, Punk Floyd, Audio Pancake, Dave The Drummer, Rowland The Bastard, DJ Yoda presents Breakfast of Champions, Akala, Mouse Outfit ft Sparkz, Dr Syntax & Pete Cannon, Cheeba, First Degree Burns, Tantz, Black Friday, Seas of Mirth, Johnny Kowalski & The Sexy Weirdos, Woohoo Revue, Formidable Vegetable Soundsystem, and more.

The festival is made up of eight very different districts and 22 stages, which celebrate a variety of individual music genres and cultures from Ska to Jungle, Reggae to Folk and a whole load more in between and beyond, the line ups are released district by district.

For the line-up details as available see the BoomTown Fair, line-up page.

Tier Three tickets are still available starting at £155 (+BF & EcoBond)  plus there is the split payment option starting from £40, where you can pay off as little or as much as you like in instalments until 1st July 2015.

Teen residency pass (aged 13 - 17 years): £120 & ecobond deposit
Child (aged 6 - 12 years): £20
Infant (aged under 6 years): free

Campervan pass: £50
Caravan / Trailer tent pass: £60
Family car, campervan or caravan parking passes are also available.

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There is an option to donate £2, £5 or £10 to the event's charity partners for 2015, all donations are matched by BoomTown.




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