Isle of Wight Festival

Isle of Wight Festival 2012

The festival will take place on Friday 22 - Sunday 24 June 2012

After celebrating a spectacular sold out 10th anniversary in 2011, the Isle of Wight Festival is back with a bang. It has been announced that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will headline the Friday, Pearl Jam will headline the Saturday and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are to headline the Sunday of the festival.

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Thursday line-up

On Thursday 21st June Primal Scream are set to get the party started in Seaclose Park as they headline the Big Top opening night festivities for campers. The Garden Stage will feature Brit Floyd, Stackridge and Tensheds

Friday line-up

The Main Stage will feature Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Elbow, Example, Noah and The Whale and Feeder.
The Big Top will feature Groove Armada present Red Light, along with Lana Del Rey, Enter Shikari, Kelis, Caro Emerald and DJ Fresh.
The Garden Stage will feature Crystal Castles, Best Coast, Dry The River and Penguin Prison.

Saturday line-up

The Main Stage sees Pearl Jam headlining, with Biffy Clyro, Tinie Tempah, Jessie J, Madness, Labrinth and Big Country.
The Big Top will feature Magnetic Man, Professor Green, Wretch 32, Katy B, Loick Essien, Stooshe and Boyce Avenue.
The Garden Stage will see The Charlatans headline, along with Miles Kane, New York Dolls, X, The Christians, Terry Reid, The Real D'Coy and Sadie & The Hotheads.

Sunday line-up

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band are headlining the Main Stage, which will also see Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, The Vaccines, Band of Skulls and Joan Armatrading take to the stage.
On the Big Top The Darkness are to headline, with Ash, Pulled Apart By Horses, Black Stone Cherry, The Virginmarys, Spector, Zulu Winter, The Milk and Switchfoot.
The Garden Stage will be headlined by The Pierces, and will also feature Christina Perri and Beth Hart.


   

For one year only the Festival is moving from its usual weekend to Friday 22 - Sunday 24 June, to make way for the Diamond Jubilee and half term celebrations.

John Giddings, Festival Promoter, says "We have been advised by the ferry companies that to run the same week as half term and the Jubilee would be problematic for our audience and production infrastructure. We have therefore taken the executive decision to move, for one year only, to 22/23/24 June 2012 to ensure a smooth journey for everyone and to get the entire infrastructure on and off the island."