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Adele and Bullet For My Valentine line-up for Radio 1′s Festive Festival 2010

Adele and Bullet For My Valentine line-up for Radio 1's Festive Festival 2010

Adele and Bullet For My Valentine line-up for Radio 1′s Festive Festival 2010. Nick Grimshaw announces the line up for Radio 1′s Festive Festival 2010. BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw has announced the line up for Radio 1′s annual Festive Festival returning again to the legendary BBC Maida Vale Studios, Monday 20th December. The artists confirmed for the festive celebrations are: Adele, Bullet For My Valentine James Blake, Katy B, Wretch 32, The Vaccines and Yuck. Each act is set to perform three live tracks from the studios between 7-10pm. For the last hour from 10pm, Radio 1 DJs Toddla T, Benji B and Jaymo and Andy George take over with special mixes to get listeners into the party spirit. Hosted by Zane Lowe and Nick Grimshaw, Radio 1′s Festive Festival will be broadcast live 7pm- 11pm.2011′s FF line-up continues Radio 1′s tradition of bringing together a mix of established acts and rising stars tipped for big things in 2011. Previous years have featured performances from: Plan B, The Hoosiers, Kate Nash Glasvegas, Marina and The Diamonds, The XX, Chipmunk, Mumford and Sons, Florence and the machine, Friendly Fires and Chase & Status.

Mystery Jets join Somerset House line-up

Mystery Jets join Somerset House line-up. The courtyard of Somerset House has played host to an inspirational line-up for the past eight years, and 2010’s season will be no exception. This year, London’s premiere open air venue have invited Air, Corinne Bailey Rae, Florence + The Machine, Mystery Jets, N-Dubz, Noah & the Whale, Soul II Soul, The Temper Trap, and The xx to headline, with a further announcement of headliners and supports to be made very soon. Tickets go on sale on the 26th March. This year’s programme brings together five different musical strands of young London; Camberwell’s Florence, Twickenham’s Mystery Jets and Noah & The Whale, Camden’s N-Dubz, and Wandsworth’s The xx. The Series finale is a rare live outing from London legends Soul II Soul, celebrating the 21 year anniversary of the seminal ‘Club Classics Vol.1’. In addition, N-Dubz’s headline show will feature special guests and collaborations, and open with a performance by a group of young, breaking artists from across London who will have taken part in the What Next workshop programme run by Somerset House in association with Bigga Fish and Metropolis Music. Further details to be announced. Eagerly awaited shows from Air, Corinne Bailey Rae, and The Temper Trap, and two further headliners to be revealed soon, complete a line-up that’s set to make the Summer Series at Somerset House in 2010 very special indeed. For priority booking for Summer Series 2010 and to be kept informed about events at Somerset House please sign-up here: www.somersethouse.org.uk/music

Dates are:

July 8 MYSTERY JETS
July 9 AIR
July 10 NOAH & THE WHALE
July 11 N-DUBZ
July 12 THE TEMPER TRAP
July 13 THE XX
July 14 TBA
July 15 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
July 16 CORINNE BAILEY RAE
July 17 TBA
July 18 SOUL II SOUL

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The XX: Band You Should Know. One of the great quests in rock music has been to try to bring together traditional guitar-drum-bass rock sounds with dance music. Some of the biggest bands in the world have made the attempt (most notably U2, who boldly attempted to bridge the gap between rock and electronica with Zooropa and Pop in the 1990s), but most have failed. At the end of the day, groups with rock elements are written off as dance Continue reading →