A brilliant line-up of music legends are to appear at Bridport’s fabulous Jurassic Fields Festival from Friday, August 14 until Sunday, August 16.
Multi-million selling chart toppers Scouting For Girls, whose hits include This Ain’t a Love Song, She’s So Lovely and Elvis Ain’t Dead, headline as they build towards a massive 20th anniversary weekend at Wembley early next year.
Sharing the top slots are noughties hitmakers Feeder, everyone’s favourite festival Welsh rap crew Goldie Lookin’ Chain, multi platinum sellers Space, and UK garage pioneers Artful Dodger.
The festival is held at West Bay Fields, near Broomhill Farm, with free shuttle buses taking festival goers between Bridport, West Bay and Bothenhampton. Tickets are priced from £35 adult, £91 family, £16 child (5-16), under 5s free and there are full weekend passes including camping.
The future of the festival was hanging in the balance until Dorset-based company Immense Events and Bars Ltd, who have run the successful Poole Harbour Festival for ten years, took over the reins just in time to stage the event last year.
Immense MD Ben Dyas said: “We’d been to Jurassic Fields several times over the last few years and could clearly see how important it is to the vibrant music scene in West Dorset – there was no way we could let it disappear.”
Also appearing live are The South, with their hit-packed setlist of massive tunes by The Beautiful South, dancefloor destroyers Dub Pistols, melodic indie types Captain, and the extraordinary one-man blues machine that is Funke and the Two Tone Baby, as well as folk-punk stalwarts Ferocious Dog, Bristol’s finest soulful D&B outfit Dr Meaker, and top chart acts Freestylers and N Trance.
The DJ bill includes Happy Mondays/Black Grape legend Bez, rave originator Brandon Block and Radio 1 regular Dave Pearce.
“It’s important to us that Jurassic Fields appeals to the whole community so we kept lots of slots open for Dorset based artists such as the amazing Chris Payn & the Hightown Parade, Gaz Brookfield and his band, the Company of Thieves, and local heroes Shelby’s Elbows,” added Ben.
There will be free kids’ activities every day including dinosaur shows, the Mad4Anmals shows, bubble shows and storyteller Mark Fisher.