This year’s Split Festival line-up, which will take place across September 17th and 18th at Ashbrooke Sports Club in Sunderland.
Curated by The Futureheads, with guitarist Ross Millard at the helm as Split’s Music Programmer, the festival is now in it’s third year and promises to be bigger and better than ever before. The line-up that boasts some of the UK’s best loved bands alongside the North East’s local talent and emerging international artists.
confirmed so far for Split Festival 2011 include:
17TH SEPTEMBER
The Drums
Dutch Uncles
B>E>A>K>
We Beat the System
SUNDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER
The Charlatans
Frankie & The Heartstrings
Hyde & Beast
Leatherface
Dauntless Elite
Plus many more are to be announced over the coming weeks!
Additional fringe tents hosting comedians and acoustic artists will also be put in place, as well as the gourmet tent hosted by BBC Masterchef finalist Stacey Stewart providing Split’s festival food.
The ticket prices are stated below and can be purchased from http://split.over9stores.co.uk/:
EARLY BIRD TICKETS (ends 31/08/11)
£20 Saturday
£20 Sunday
£35 Weekend ticket
£25 Saturday
£25 Sunday
£40 Weekend ticket
“We’re really looking forward to playing at Split Festival and I think that it will be one of the last festivals we’re doing for some time because after that we’ll be in the studio. We’ve got Frankie and the Heartstrings on before us and I’ve heard a lot of good things about them and I think we’ll be up early doors anyway for Split, so I’ll go and have a wander round and check out the up and coming acts, as I know there will be some good ones playing.”Martin Blunt, The Charlatans
“At the end of the Sunday when everyone is getting a little bit emotional and a little bit carried away with themselves, on come the Charlatans to play you through a greatest hits set and it couldn’t really be better. That’s something which is really important about Split, we got someone valid to close the festival on Sunday night, it’s Glastonbury-esque, they have these great legacy performers who close Glasto and now we’ve got one of our own at Split.”Ross Millard, Split Festival Music Programmer & The Futureheads’ guitarist
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