Wilderness Festival has announced their 2019 line-up, which features a stellar list of names. Among the names revealed today include Robyn, Bombay Bicycle Club, and Groove Armada, who are all set to headline 2019’s festival. The festival will be returning, for its ninth edition this year, to Cornbury Park, in Oxfordshire, between the 1st to the 4th of August 2019. Tickets for the festival are now available, and can be purchased here.
Completing the festival’s impressive headliners, that already includes Robyn, Bombay Bicycle Club and Groove Armada, is Tom Odell, Caravan Palace, Tom Grennan, Eats Everything, and Honey Dijon. The following acts are also on the bill and will be joining the already stellar line-up is Freya Ridings, Ólafur Arnalds, George FitzGerald, Erol Alkan, The Cause present Adonis & Tribes, and SOAK.
Completing the line-up announcement are Blanco White, Durand Jones & The Indications, Ronnie Scott’s presents: Incognito, Ata Kak (Awesome Tapes from Africa), Beating Heart, Cykada, Jurassic 5’s Soup presents: The Fullee Love Collective.
As ever, Wilderness Festival is not just about the music, its also about the arts, nature, and food. This year’s festival is no different as it also features cultural happenings from the Royal Academy, Southbank Centre, Roundhouse, RSA and Sadler’s Wells. Its famous long-table banquets are back, with leading chefs and restaurants including Angela Hartnett’s Café Murano and Petersham Nurseries rustling up sumptuous grub. If you prefer to grab a bite on the go, there’s street food from London favourites Patty & Bun and Temper
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Speaking about what inspired her to establish the festival, Wilderness Festival founder and organiser, Jo Vidler said: “I transformed Secret Garden Party with Jim Whewell & Ed Dolman in 2007 and after 4 years, we decided we wanted to create a festival which took you right back to nature, where you felt inspired and rejuvenated.”
Continuing she explained, “A place where you could experience all of the Arts in a setting that you would not have seen them before; a gathering of people in bare foot, eating together in mass, swimming in natural water, eating healthy yummy food and, best of all, escaping from your busy life. Tim Harvey, Jim & I came together, and with Dean James along came Wilderness. We would not have come this far with out our incredible general manger Eloise Markewell-Butler either & of course the Secret Production & Mama & co team.”
Bombay Bicycle Club have announced that they will make their return, to the live scene, this summer with a headline slot at the festival. After confirming plans to return once more last month, the London band will now make their first comeback appearance, at the Oxfordshire festival, on Friday the 2nd of August 2019. In January, this year, the band announced their return by sharing a snippet of a 27 second instrumental music.
In a statement the band said: “With a new year ahead of us, we thought now would be a good moment to give you a bit of news about what the four of us have been up to recently and what we have planned. Since late last year we’ve been getting back into the swing of playing music together. We were initially a little rusty but also nostalgic playing songs that have been around since we were teenagers. More than anything it just felt great to be in the same room playing again. It made us realise what a good thing we have and has given us renewed energy and enthusiasm for the future.
“The joy we were getting out of playing the old songs seemed to naturally lead us onto working on new material, so we’re becoming immersed in that as we speak. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we have something new for you guys to hear. We’re also planning some shows for later this year and beyond. We’ll have news on that front over the coming months.”
