Editors added to Isle Of Wight Festival
02 February 2006
Editors are expected to have a busy festival summer ahead of them, with the band
strongly rumoured to be headlining the second stage at Reading and Leeds Festivals as well.
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their tracks from just 79p each here.
The Isle
Of Wight Festival 2006 takes place from Friday 9 June - Sunday 11 June at Seaclose Park, Newport.
More bands will be announced in the coming months but weekend tickets are already on sale priced £85 (£105 with
camping). Under 12s go half price. Click here to buy.
2006 will mark the fifth
event since the festival's reincarnation in 2002, during which time the likes of David Bowie, R.E.M, Faithless,
The Who, Supergrass, Razorlight, Travis and The Magic Numbers have all appeared.
The Isle
of Wight Festivals at the end of the 1960's were a series of legendary events featuring Bob Dylan, The Who, Free,
The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Jefferson Airplane culminating in 1970 with 600,000 hippies descending upon the island
to see Jimi Hendrix perform his penultimate concert. The event has played a major part in shaping the
music festivals we know today and was the European answer to Woodstock.
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