Teenage Fanclub to headline Sunday at Truck

plus Blood Red Shoes, Bellowhead, Mercury Rev, and more

By Scott Williams | Published: Wed 28th Apr 2010

Truck Festival 2010

Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th July 2010
Hill Farm, Steventon, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6SW, England MAP
adult weekend £80, teen (13-17) £60, under 12 free

Daily capacity: 4,000

Teenage Fanclub have been announced as the Sunday night headliners at Oxfordshire's Truck festival which has also announced more new additions to the line-up.

Topping Truck's 13th birthday party will be, the band who released the classic album '13', Teenage Fanclub who will be playing their well loved hits plus songs from their forthcoming new album 'Shadows' on the Sunday night. They will be preceded on the main stage by Blood Red Shoes.

Other newly confirmed acts include Bellowhead, The Redland Palamino Co, and Dave House.

Summer Camp, Is Tropical, La Shark, Dave House, Tellison, Wild Nothing, and Brontideare all set to play the newly refurbished Village Pub Stage which this year is under new musical management from LastFM.

Barn Stage new additions are Chapel Club and Sunday night line-up additions include Fucked Up close the line-up before them are Darwin Deez, Freelance Whales, and a film project from Mercury Rev Clearlight Orchestra who present an exclusive soundtrack performance for a Kenneth Anger film.

These bands join Saturday night headliners Mew, and Esben And The Witch, Egyptian Hip Hop, Fonda 500, Future Of The Left, Good Shoes, Lau, Little Fish, Los Campesinos!, Ms Dynamite, Stornoway, This Town Needs Guns, DJ Zinc, and Whispering Bob Harris returns to host the Market Stage.

The thirteenth Truck festival which takes place over the weekend of Friday 23rd until Sunday 25th July 2010.

An adult weekend ticket is priced at £80. This year Truck have introduced a Teen Trucker ticket at the reduced price of £60 - and keen truckers can get the party started early by getting one of the very limited-edition Friday night camping tickets (for an additional £15). Children under 12 years old can go free but must be accompanied by a paying adult.

To buy tickets, click here.

Truck takes place at Steventon, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire and is a blend of village fete and Woodstock, free of any sponsorship or corporate agenda. It's about music, community and being outdoors. Founded by Robin and Joe Bennett on a farm within a welly wang from their family home, it now attracts over 5,000 revellers.

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