Mika & The Hot Rats are the latest addition to Bestival 2009. With their brand new site layout, new Afterburner stage and the truly mind-blowing line up they’ve already announced you probably think this year’s Bestival couldn’t possibly get any better but you’d be spectacularly wrong! Joining an eclectically glorious line up, that includes Massive Attack, Kraftwerk, Elbow, MGMT, Fleet Foxes, Seasick Steve, Klaxons, Lily Allen, Bat For Lashes, Soulwax, Diplo’s Mad Decent Sound System, Chase & Status and Michael Nyman, are some glittering musical gems that promise to bring some joyous party favours and high jinx to Robin Hill Country Park.
 
Taking a break from making his outer space costume Rob da Bank commented: “'With Bestival very close to selling out for yet another year on the trot, I thought we'd better leak out some more ace acts to keep us going ‘til September! Mika played his first ever live gig at Bestival two years ago and he's chosen Besti for his only fully live UK show of the year - the boy loves getting dressed up and putting on a show so expect the unexpected. On the other side of the spectrum I'm well pleased that Hot Rats are coming to Bestival for a rare live show – I’m a massive Supergrass fan and with Gaz and Danny from the band being joined by Radiohead uber producer and Bestival fan Nigel Godrich it's my kinda thing. See you in September!'”

Adding even more poptastic excitement to the bill and making a very welcome return to Bestival, the one and only Mika is set to showcase some brand new material alongside a host of sing—a-long hits in his only full live band performance of the UK Festival season.  Not one for hiding his light under a bushel, Mika’s live sets are a glittering technicolour feast with more glitz and glam packed into them than a year’s subscription to Heat Magazine and with some very special Bestival treats up his sleeve you can expect to be bowled over by the high energy vibes and boundless energy of it all.
 
Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey best known as one half of the much-loved Supergrass, are bringing their brand new super-exciting side project, The Hot Rats to the Isle of Wight this September. Performing their own‘Pin Ups’ style versions of some of their favourite classic songs, The Hot Rats are currently recording an album with the legendary Nigel Godrich celebrating some of pop and rock’s greatest artists over the last forty years. With whispers of Pink Floyd, Roxy Music and the Beastie Boys floating through their set, the latest Goffey/Coombes project is born out of a true love and respect for their rock heroes and is guaranteed to be an absolute corker.
 
And it doesn’t stop there, with Dubstepper Benga, BBC 1Xtra’s Benji B, BBC Radio 1’s Gold Sony Award winner Bobby Friction, the dirty rhythms of the Loose Cannons, Scottish House wunderkind Grum, Glitch-Hopper Hudson Mohawke, Lemonade’s stateside grooves, Ohbijou’s Indie-pop, rare groove from Ross Allen, the Isle of Wight’s own Shanklin Freak Show, Belfast’s commotion causing Skibunny, experimental rockers Stardeath and White Dwarfs, the psychedelic sounds of Sunny Day Sets Fire and the twisted Folk of The Acorn all taking the ferry across the Solent to join the Bestival mayhem, it’s going to be non-stop, tip-top fun.

The full list of acts so far are below but make sure you keep checking www.bestival.net <http://www.bestival.net> for all the latest information.
 
Live Acts:

65 Days Of Static / 2020 Sound System / A Child Rasputin / Alessi’s Ark /Altern8 / Baddies / Bastila / Bat For Lashes / Bjorn Again / Black Acid /Blindfold / Bloco Electro / Blue Roses / Casio Kids / Chase & Status / Chew Lips / Coopers Rage / Cordelier Club / Crazy P / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Delphic / Dent May / Dinosaur Pile Up / Diplo Presents Mad Decent Soundsystem – Boy 8 Bit, Buraka Som Sistema, Major Lazer,  Rusko / Dirty Projectors / Doves / Drums Of Death / Dub Pistols / Eat Static / Ebony Bones / Efterklang / Elbow /  Esser / Fight Like Apes / Filthy Dukes / Fleet Foxes / Florence & The Machine / Frankmusik / Free Peace / Fresh Legs / Friendly Fires / Frightened Rabbit / Fujiya & Miyagi / Future Sound Of London / George Pringle / Golden Silvers / Goldie Lookin’ Chain / Goodbye Stereo / Heartbreak / Hockey / Introducing / It Hugs Back / Jack Penate / James Yuill / Joe Gideon & Shark / Just Jack /  Kid Carpet / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / Klaxons / Kraftwerk / La Roux /  Lemonade / Lily Allen / Little Boots / Lizzy Parks / Lucky Elephant / Maps / Man Like Me / Massive Attack / Metronomy / MGMT / Michael Nyman / Micachu & The Shapes / Mika / Music From The Penguin Café / Napoleon 111rd / Natty / Ohbijou / Orkestra Del Sol / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Skint And Demoralised / Swimming Pool / Passion Pit /  Peggy Sue / Pivot / Pole / Polly Scattergood / Rox / Seasick Steve / Shanklin Freak Show / Skibunny  / Soulwax / Sound Of Rum /Speech Debelle / Sportsday Megaphone / Squarepusher / Stardeath And White Dwarfs / Sunny Day Sets Fire  / The Acorns / The  Adventurists/  The Beat / The Big Pink /  The Big Hairy Band / The Cuban Brothers / The Dawn Chorus / The Duloks / The Ghost / The Hat / The Horrors / The Hot Rats / The Mummers / The Pretty Things / The Shutes / The Subs / They Came From The Stars I Saw Them / Tinchy Stryder / VV Brown / Wave Machines / Workhouse / Xo-Man
 
DJs / MCs:

2manydjs / A1 Bassline /  A Skillz / Alix Perez / Annie Mac Presents / Annie Nightingale / Beardyman / Beat Boutique / Benga / Benji B/ Bloody Beetroots / Bobby Friction /  Brian Monaco (Kitchen Party) / Broken Heart DJs / Cagedbaby / Carl Cox (old Skool Set) / Caspa / Chase And Status / Chris Coco And Pete Gooding / Coki /Coley (Luv Jam) / Daisy Heartbreaker / Derrick Carter / Diplo / DJ Charge / DJ Dan (Propaganda) / DJ Derek / DJ Food / DJ Yoda / Dublime Presents – Appleblim, Martyn, 2562 & Reso / Fabio & Grooverider / Fake Blood / Feeling Gloomy DJs, Firas (Filthy Few)/ Flying White Dots / Foamo /Freemasons / Fear of Theydon / Friction / Gaz's Rockin Blues / Gilles Peterson / Goldie Locks / Grum / Hijack/ Hudson Mohawke / Huw Stephens / Jaguar Skillz / Jaymo And Andy George / Johnno (Bugged Out) / Joker / Justin Robertson / Karl Hyde & Rick Smith (Underworld) / Kasra / Krafty Kuts / Kry Wolf / Krysko / L Vis 1990 -Mad Decent Soundsystem / Lee Mortimer /London Elektricity / Luke Pritchard (Kooks) / Michael Cook / Monsters At Work DJs / Outmode / Paul Trouble Arnold / Plastician / Price (Dpr Recs) Raffertie / Rachel Barton / Riva Starr / Rob da Bank / Ross Allen / Russ Cuban / Scuba /Sombrero Sound System / Skream /Tayo / The Correspondence / The Heavenly Jukebox  / The Loose Cannons / Tim Boogaloo / Toddla T / Tom Middleton / Tru Thoughts (Robert Luis & Kinny) / Zane Lowe
 
Island Day:
Blank Beats / Cooly Haste /Goodbye Stereo / Guy Page Trio / Hugo Fruslinky  / JC and Angelina / Joe Stilgoe / Lucid / Papa Do Plenty / Santa Spirita / Simon Shelley / Sun Down City / The Chancers / The Gramophone / The Kurves  / The Operators  / The Gramaphone (Island Band)
The Shoots / Wightlight Orchestra
 
And many more acts to be announced…
 
Tickets available now from:
 
www.Bestival.net / Ticketline:  08700 667753 (24 hr)  / www.lastminute.com