Bad Manners lead line-up for ChinaTown at BoomTown Fair

Bad Manners lead the first acts revealed for The ChinaTown Theatre line-up for this summer's Boomtown Fair.

The ChinaTown Theatre is homed in the ChinaTown district. This area offers an oriental twist to the city with performance, geisha's and ninjas and a ska'skankin' line-up that includes Ska'n'Ska, Hoffmaestro, The Selecter, The Neville Staple Band, Babyhead, Ska Cubano, Smerins Anti-Social Club, The Dualers, Skamanians, Crash Nomada, The Magnus Puto Band, Bison, First Degree Burns, Guns of Navarone (from Bournemouth), The JB Conspiracy, Counting Coins, Outl4w, Hallouminati, The Jargonauts, New Groove Formation, Tyrannosaurus Alan, Zora & the Tatsmiths, Oscillator, Melosa, Rasta4Eyes, Royal Gala, Upbeat Allstars, ChainSka Brassika, Popes of Chillitown, The Rude'em Outs, Bad Transmission, Shoot The Moon, and Chewing on Tinfoil.

Already confirmed for the Ska, Swing, Folk And Punk Stages are Parov Stelar Band, Ozomatli, Mad Caddies, Arrested Development, Toots and the Maytals, King Prawn, The Wurzels, The Skints, Demented Are Go, Orkestra del Sol, Les Hurlements d Leo, Suicide Bid, The Creepshow, Flap!, Molotov Jukebox, Random Hand, Richie Spice, Collie Buddz and the New Kingston Band, Dub Inc., Lee Scratch Perry, Million Stylez, Gentleman's Dub Club, Tippa Irie, Mr Williamz, Mungos Hi Fi, YT, Musical Youth, Iration Steppas, Channel One Soundsystem, Robbo Ranx, I-Fire, Dreadsquad feat Dr Ring Ding + Kasia Malenda + El Fata, Foreign Beggars, Redlight, Chinese Man, Digital Mystikz, Koan Sound, Calyx & Teebee, Zinc, South Central, LTJ Bukem & Conrad, Opiuo, B.Traits, Mak & Pasteman, Reso, RackNRuin, WOZ, Sticky, Randomer, and Slipmatt B2B Billy Daniel Bunter.

This is the fifth year of the festival with an on going narrative for around 30,000 festivalgoers takes place at Matterley Bowl, nr. Winchester, in Hampshire and will run from Thursday 8th until Sunday 11th August 2013.

BoomTown's Mayor has split the city and given attendees the choice of aligingn themselves with their preferred district, and pick their allegiance and choose a district to be part of in this fully immersive festival experience.

Tier six tickets are now available priced at £149, plus a £10 eco bond deposit - part of the 'keep the town tidy' scheme. All teen (13-17 years) tickets have sold out, a child ticket (6-12 years) is priced at £20, and children under 6 can go free but need a ticket.

To buy tickets, click here.

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