Adam Ant for Vintage Festival

Adam Ant will headline this year's Vintage Festival which takes place at London's Southbank Centre

The 80's pop legend will headline the Hit Parade in the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 31st July. 'Prince Charming' joins a line-up that includes Thomas Dolby, Robin Gibb, Percy Sledge, Sandie Shaw, Alan Wilder, Mirrors, Booker T., David McAlmont, The Jim Jones Revue, Andrej Havelka & His Melody Makers, John Miller Orchestra, The Jive Aces, Fargo, Trio Manouche, DC Fontana, Dr Robert, Chris Dale, Speed and Pid, George Power, Norman Jay, Terry Farley, Jay Strongman, Mike Pickering, Graeme Park, A Guy Called Gerald, Craig Charles, Jon Da Silva, Greg Wilson, Noel Watson, Sean Rowley, Ashley Beedle, Horse Meat Disco, Disco Bloodbath DJs, and many more. For the line-up details as available please click here.

Vintage is the brainchild of designers Gerardine and Wayne Hemingway. The family friendly music and fashion led celebration of creative British cool from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s and fashion festival.

Vintage 2011 will be taking place from Friday 29th until Sunday 31st July with the 21 acre South Bank site transformed into a Vintage wonderland. All the clubs, bands, fashions, art, and design, film, shops, vintage retailers, dance lessons, makeovers, workshops, and Thames boat party surprises.

By night the whole of the Southbank complex will be transformed into a series of evocative set dressed venues, complimented by a flotilla of party boats, cruising The Thames on a summer evening specialising in genres from funk, to electro swing.

Other Vintage attractions across the Southbank Centre site include a one-off parade; The Chap Olympiad, where festival goers can enjoy umbrella jousting and sandwich tossing; the Peter Blake CCA Art Bus, a mobile art work and art gallery by Sir Peter Blake; the worst art ever made in the Bad Art Salon; sound systems and live music across the site, including the final stage of the Mayor's Rhythm of London Busking competition; and 3 das of 20th century film classics, iconic TV with free screenings of The Avengers and a Vintage Bus which will present a complementary programme with the BFI Southbank, curated by director Stephen Woolley. The BFI weekender will showcase films starring Terry Thomas, Alec Guinness and Oliver Reed; and from behind the camera Ken Russell will present screening of The Devils and Tommy.

Tickets for Friday, Saturday or Sunday are priced at £60, with a day + Vintage revue show pass priced from £75. To buy tickets, click here.

eFestivals will bring you an interview with festival organiser Wayne Hemingway on Monday.

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