celebrating 40 years of punk at Isle of Wight Festival in 2016

Next year's Isle of Wight Festival, taking place Newport's Seaclose Park from Thursday 9th until Sunday 12th June 2016 will be celebrating 40 years of punk with Iggy Pop, Adam Ant performing 'Kings of the Wild Frontier', The Damned, Buzzcocks, The Godfathers, and The Sex Pissed Dolls.

Organisers explain, "1976 is widely seen as the year that punk was born. The Sex Pistols signed to EMI Rec-ords, and started to generate significant press coverage - not least for their infamous in-terview in December of that year with Bill Grundy. The Ramones released their debut al-bum in 1976, and the year saw the formation of not only The Damned and The Buzzcocks, but also other punk legends and luminaries such as The Clash, The Slits, X-Ray Spex, Black Flag and The Adverts."

Friday night is co-headlined by Stereophonics, and Faithless, while the Sunday headliner is Queen with Adam Lambert, while elsewhere there's Bjorn Tagemose silent film experience Gutterdammerung. Expect many more names to be announced for the festival's multiple stages.

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Tickets including booking fees are priced at £202.80 with camping, a student ticket is priced at £186.90, and a teen  (aged 13-17 years) ticket is priced at £155.20. Children aged 12 and under can attend free of charge, and a campervan ticket was priced at £120 (and have sold out). Tickets without camping will be available at a later date.