Bestival - News

Bestival 2010: The Year of The Fantastic

Exciting times in the Bestival bunker as we announce even more acts, including Roxy Music, plus a visionary fancy dress theme - Fantasy! This year's

Bestival: Time Machine At KOKO - Sat 20th March

Roll up roll up for the only Bestival Party in London town this year!Featuring: all the Fancy Dress Themes from Bestival's past & special Bestival

Bestival's 'Twin' Festival - Melt!

The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF)* has launched a brilliant new initiative, AIF Twin Festivals: A Cultural Exchange, which partners the

Bestival announces The xx, Fever Ray & Richie Hawtin presents Plastikman live

Staying on course to deliver the closest thing to festival nirvana this side of rock n roll heaven, Rob da Bank and the Bestival crew are just too excited

Bestival at SXSW

If, like some of our nearest and dearest, you can't make our KOKO extravaganza because you happen to be in Austin Texas on March 20th for SXSW, never fear

Bestival Goes Flaming Bonkers! 1st Acts Announced...

Live music from:Dizzee Rascal / The Flaming Lips / Hot Chip / LCD Soundsystem / Gil Scott-Heron / Chase & Status / Echo and the Bunnymen / Simian Mobile

The Besti-Blog

Hey folks - we've got so much happening between Bestival, Camp Bestival, Sunday Best Recordings and da Banko's DJing and radio shows not to mention tweets

Bestival & Camp Bestival Triumph... With Thanks To You!

Huzzah and hooray and as many other exultations of unbridled joy that you can think of! The Bestival crew is enormously proud and ecstatically pleased

Bestival 09 Wins An 'Outstanding' Greener Festival Award!

We are delighted to announce that both Bestival and Camp Bestival have been awarded the Greener Festival Award 2009 with Bestival winning it in the ‘outstanding’

Bestival Presents Sunday Best Compilation Album

Rob da Bank’s Sunday Best Recordings stands proudly defiant against the commercial tide as a resolutely independent record label and party-starter

Bestival 2010 Tickets

Now that we’ve all recovered from the excitement overload that was Bestival 2009, we’re already thinking about how to make our 2010 event even

Bestival 2009 - It's Been Out Of This World!

Our sixth Bestival has come to an end and we can safely say that our Year of the Spectacular has been out of this world, blessed with four super sun-drenched

New Bestival IPhone App

Make sure you don’t miss all the unmissable treats at Bestival this year and get our new Bestival iPhone App that will keep you up to speed from

Bestival TV Takes Us Back...

Ever since the second Bestival in 2005 we've been lucky enough to have CC-Lab and Channel 4 on board to capture all the magic over the course of the weekend

Rob Da Bank's A-Z Of Festivals Book

Rob da Bank's A-Z of Festivals : My Life of Mud, Music & Mayhem in 26 Letters is a personal celebration of music, festivals and how they bring people