- 8 stages of boutique festival fun - live music, top DJs, cabaret & super strange happenings. Supported by BBC Radio 1

- Other live acts include: Devendra Banhart, The Stranglers, The Fall, King Creosote, Jamie T, Cagedbaby, Kid Creole and The Coconuts, Amadou & Mariam, Nathan Fake, The Young Knives, The Sunshine Underground, Kanda Bongo Man, Planet Pendulum, Switch, The Boy Least Likely To, Mara Carlyle, James Yorkston and The Athletes, Fence Collective, The Aliens, My Robot Friend, Electronic Elvis, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Jeremy Warmsley, Mr Hudson and the Library, Vetiver, Klaxons, Tunng, Jeggsy Dodd, Eberg, Electronic Elvis, Magnetophone with Sonic Boom and Kwaing Creasite, Get Cape.Wear Cape.Fly plus Young Blood Brass Band AND MUCH MUCH MORE TO STILL BE ANNOUNCED……

- Plus a host of the finest DJs: DJ Marky, DJ Yoda, Annie Mac, Cosmic Fury (Tom Middleton & Fred Deakin), Erol Alkan, DJ Zinc, Justin Robertson, Mary Anne Hobbs, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Touche, Jazzanova, Rob da Bank, Flower Power (Ibiza), Chris Coco, The Black Dog, Mixmaster Morris, Digital Mystikz, Skream, Kode 9, Various Production, DJ Derek, Gaz's Rockin Blues, Quiet Village, Sonic Boom, plus much more to come...

- Hosted by those saucy masters of ceremonies The Cuban Brothers – playing live and unadulterated

- And the Biggest Fancy Dress celebration ever goes Circus theme!

- Plus many more bands plus two headliners still to be announced!

What a year it's been for Bestival!  First we won two awards - the Most Innovative and Best Medium Sized Festival at the UK Festival Awards - that sent us nuts!  Then, when our heads finally stopped spinning, we got stuck into our preview parties at London's KOKO.  And now we're unleashing the beautiful beast that is 'Bestival the 3rd' – yes indeed its our third jaunt across the Solent to our favourite park homestead Robin Hill on 8th, 9th and 10th September. It may be the last festival of the summer season but don't hang around as these hot cakes are flying as Rob da Bank reveals the first cheeky insight into the weird and wonderful world of Bestival.

Firstly, we are over the moon to announce that the legendary Pet Shop Boys are headlining Saturday night at Bestival! Genius! Since scoring their first number one hit with "West End girls" 20 years ago, Pet Shop Boys have gone on to become the most successful pop duo in history with 36 top 20 hits and ten top ten albums. Not only are they fabulously cool, they have after all collaborated with the likes of Dusty Springfield, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Liza Minnelli, Yoko Ono and Madonna, but this is their only UK Festival appearance in this their 20th year at the top!

Another of this year's main stage marvels is Devendra Banhart. Indulge in beautifully crafted U.S folk, hippy murmurings plus beads and joss sticks from Rob da Banks favourite live artist of 2005.

The Stranglers need little introduction and Bestival is chuffed to have one of the U.K's greatest acts ever at our summer shindig – We can't wait to sing along to hits such as Golden Brown,  Peaches and No More Heroes – peachy indeed!
Bestival's Rob da Bank has also peppered the line up with an amazing array of bright young things for 2006. From hotly tipped electronic wizard Nathan Fake and bass slapping Indie-folk wonder Jamie T to Lamacq's latest nod The Sunshine Underground it's a sizzling line up from the off. The new incarnation from two members of the Beta Band and Lone Pigeon, The Aliens, add musical magic with their spacey psychedelia avant rock. The previously undiscovered favourites of last year's festival, the rockabilly band Kitty Daisy & Lewis, who incredibly are aged at just 11, 15 and 17, are back and are now Sunday Best's newest signing.  Brighton's hottest new export Cagedbaby is making his third Bestival appearance with his wondrous electro house. Add in NME Chart toppers The Young Knives, Drum & Bass warlords Planet Pendulum and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, the most hotly tipped UK act from South by South West, and you'll have a taste of what it feels like to be in Rob da Bank's head. Many more hot new acts still to be announced by the BBC Radio 1 DJ.

Cream of the UK folk scene King Creosote makes his Bestival debut appearance – Robby will be chasing him for big furry hugs this September as Fife's finest folk artist and one of Rob da Bank favourites comes to visit the folking fanatics at Bestival.

Kid Creole and The Coconuts and The Fall cover different spectrums of 'classic' – You only get a line up this diverse at the official 'Most Innovative Festival' ever – Catch the Kid banging out summer gems such as Stool Pigeon and see one of the best Indie bands ever The Fall fill the main stage with glory - still top of their game after 97 odd albums. Pure genius.

Also they'll be the usual soundscape of DJs ranging from DJ Marky, DJ Yoda, Annie Mac, Cosmic Fury (Tom Middleton & Fred Deakin), Erol Alkan, DJ Zinc, Justin Robertson, to Mary Anne Hobbs, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Flower Power (Ibiza), Chris Coco and many more.

Bestival favourites The Cuban Brothers will also be let loose on the main stage every day with their unique style of compeering – The original funk soul brothers will also be playing tracks from their 'A to Z of The Cuban Brothers' album. Now a 15 strong troop when fully live it's a high-energy experience not for the faint hearted. Don't forget "It's good to touch!".

So that's a wee taster of what promises to be the most eclectic and fun line up ever from Mr da Bank. Not only that but we'll be packing our small and beautifully formed festival full of Sunday Best surprises and strange happenings. Last year we decided to hold a little fancy dress party for a bit of fun. About 10,000 Cowboys and Indians turned up and broke the Guinness World Record for 'the biggest fancy dress party' ever. This year we're going mad for the Circus theme so we'll be calling all strongmen, bearded ladies, freaks, performing seals, lions, ringmasters and sword swallowers (but don't sue us!) or just come as you are! All that plus an even bigger and better Boutique Campsite including a beach café, double deckers and the new Bohemian Bivouac - a travelling Boutique B&B bought to you by Bestival's creative brain box Josie da Bank (further info very soon!)

Bestival is certainly a jam-packed cacophony of musical treats and it's the spirit of Bestival that makes it a truly magical weekend for happy campers. The site is crafted with love with Josie's hand drawn designs filling the festival with wondrous imagination. The festival is put together with love by a team dedicated to bringing the best in boutique festival spirit to the rolling English countryside every year. Fantastic food, the coolest cocktail bar ever – The Bollywood Bar plus a bunch of new and amazing stuff and acts are still to be announced – Plus more cracking headliners to boot! You'd be bananas to miss it!

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