Eat Static, & System 7 for Solfest

plus Strangefruit, Nina Nesbitt, Larkin Poe, Emily Barker, & more

By Scott Williams | Published: Mon 2nd Apr 2012

Eat Static

Friday 24th to Sunday 26th August 2012
Tarnside Farm, Tarns, Silloth, nr Aspatria, Cumbria, England MAP
£95 adult weekend
Daily capacity: 8,000
Last updated: Mon 16th Jul 2012

Festival favourites Eat Static, and System 7 are the first dance acts confirmed for Solfest.

Eat Static
Also added to the main stage line-up are Strangefruit, Nina Nesbitt, Larkin Poe, and Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo who join the previously announced Big Country, Adam Ant And The Good The Mad And The Lovely Posse, KT Tunstall, Billy Bragg, The South, The Duke Spirit, Transglobal Underground, and Bootleg Beatles.

The first acts have also been announced for the Bar Stage and are Pikey Beatz, The Talks, Davey Horne & The Golden Pipes, More From Jim, The Boobytraps, Surfin' Turnips, Nikki Rous, Heidi Browne, Ford & The Shouts, Riff-X, House Of Three Hands, Jakarta Club, Eden's Daughter, The Manhattan Project, Emma Dockeray, Popgun, The 309s, Brewed Slowly, and In Dynamics.

There will be seven stages of entertainment to be announced in total with a host of other folk, pop and rock bands appearing across the weekend. For the line-up details as available please click here.

The eighth Solfest takes place on August Bank Holiday weekend from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th August 2012.

Solfest is ran almost entirely by a group of volunteers whose aim has always been to create a festival where all generations of family can relax together, where young and old can find entertainment around every corner.

The festival includes free camping, free parking (next to your tent), plenty of food from around the world, a licensed bar (or you can bring your own), sculptures, a healing area, adult workshops, craft stalls, walkabout performances and theatre, a baby area, fire performances, an acoustic music session tent, and more.

An early bird adult ticket is priced at £85 and a young persons (aged 12-16 years) early bird ticket is priced at £60. A Thursday camping ticket is priced at £10, a child (aged 6-11 years) ticket is priced at £25, and a child under 5 ticket is free, but they still need a ticket.

To buy tickets, click here.


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