The Who to headline Isle of Wight Festival with only UK festival performance this year

Isle of Wight Festival 2016

Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th June 2016
Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 2DN, England MAP
£195 with camping

Daily capacity: 90,000

Last updated: Tue 31st May 2016

The Who will headline the Saturday night of this year's Isle of Wight Festival at Newport's Seaclose Park from Thursday 9th until Sunday 12th June 2016 according to their website (here).

Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and their live band, which includes Zak Starkey, Pino Palladino and Simon Townshend, will be bringing their The Who Hits 50! tour to the island for their only UK festival performance of 2016 on Saturday, 11th June,

The band first played The Isle of Wight Festival in 1969 and 1970 and then again in 2004 – the same year that David Bowie also headlined, his last ever UK live performance.

Richard Ashcroft is confirmed as special guest to The Who on the day, performing tracks from his new solo album This People.

Festival boss John Giddings said, "The Who are part of the fabric of The Isle of Wight Festival, and it’s great to welcome them back to the island as part of their ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations. We’re proud to have a line up of home-grown headliners to help celebrate our own 15th anniversary and ensure that this year delivers yet another unforgettable weekend of music."

The join Stereophonics, and Faithless co-headlining on Friday, while the Sunday headliner is Queen with Adam Lambert, while elsewhere there's 40 years of punk with Iggy Pop, Adam Ant, The Damned, Buzzcocks, The Cribs, The Kills, Ocean Colour Scene, Status Quo, Mike & The Mechanics, The Godfathers, and The Sex Pissed Dolls, plus Sigma, Jess Glynne, Pendulum (DJ set), Everything Everything, Blossoms, Sunset Sons, Feeder, Cast, Reef, Turin Brakes, Alabama 3, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Second Sons, The Corrs, Busted, Twin Atlantic, Half Moon Run, Gabrielle Aplin, The High Kings, Reverend And The Makers, The Wonder Stuff, Sixx Am, Lissie, The Family Rain, and Bjorn Tagemose silent film experience Gutterdammerung.

The Saturday headliners are yet to be announced, though organisers say they have been booked. Expect many more names to be announced for the festival's multiple stages.

For the line-up details as available see the Isle of Wight Music Festival line-up page.

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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.

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