The Big Chill Festival is delighted to confirm Thom Yorke, Tinariwen,
Metronomy, plus a host of further acts to the music line-up. 

The Big Chill’s exceptional arts programme welcomes Tate Britain’s Rude Britannia. 

The legendary Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is one of the latest artists to be announced for this year’s Big Chill Festival (5th – 8th August) in Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Yorke released his brilliant debut album ‘Eraser’ to much acclaim, scoring top five chart positions on either side of the Atlantic. Famously, Yorke does not perform many live shows, so The Big Chill are honoured and thrilled that he will taking to the Deer Park Stage on Friday night in what is Yorke’s only UK festival appearance this year to date. Yorke joins previously announced acts such as Massive Attack, M.I.A., Kruder & Dorfmeister, Kelis, Roots Manuva, Plan B, all set to take to the stage this year.

The Big Chill Festival is also proud to announce that Tinariwen, the Malian band whose back story is as compelling as their music will join the line-up. Tinariwen is made up of a troupe of Tuareg desert blues-rockers who count the likes of Robert Plant, the forementioned Thom Yorke, Bono and the Edge amongst their fans. The band will also be taking to the Deer Park Stage on Friday and are sure to be a hit with the purveyors of the leftfield planning that made the festival so famous.

Two other acts announced to play on the Deer Park Stage are Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions and Metronomy, who will both be performing on Saturday. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions is a cross-Atlantic mix of Hope Sandoval ex-Opal and Mazzy Star lead singer and the Irish Colm Ó Cíosóig, drummer and ex co-founder of My Bloody Valentine. Metronomy, hailing from Devon are indie electro popsters known for their highly choreographed routines and can often be seen wearing giant lightbulbs. The band has remixed and supported some of the biggest names in indie electro music, such as Klaxons, Bloc Party and Justice, and have recently added Lightspeed Champion drummer Anna Prior to their line-up.

Across the other stages additional artists just announced include: Natty, a reggae pop and ska artist from North London who achieved chart success in 2008 with his debut album ‘Man Like I’. Natty will be performing on the
Revellers Stage as part of the offering on Sunday. 

House music great Maurice Fulton has been added to the Paradiso Club Tent on Saturday where he will join the likes of Henrik Schwarz and Andy Weatherall. Fulton shot to prominence in the nineties when he was behind ‘Gypsy Woman’ by Crystal Waters, one of the most successful house tunes of the era, and these days he’s the darling of both the underground house and leftfield scenes as a DJ and a producer. 

Tom Middleton, the cult DJ and Big Chill Recordings artist, a Big Chill regular having played at every one of the festivals since its conception, will not only be appearing onstage in Lazyland at the festival, but will also be drawing his ardent followers to the Starburst Open Air Stage on Saturday so you have no excuse not to catch him playing! 

Other additions to this year’s line-up include the Brighton jive band Fat 45 and Bristol Hi-Fi feat. Daddy G with a mix of reggae, afro beats, Latin bass, rare grooves, funk, hearty hip hop and plenty of mash-up treats. Daddy G is most famous for being a founding member of Massive Attack, so be sure to check him out on the Deer Park Stage on Friday night and catch his appearance with Bristol Hi-Fi.

2010 will see The Big Chill’s biggest, most varied and vibrant arts programme of its history welcoming a special series of events inspired by the exhibition Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, a forthcoming attraction at the mecca of visual art that is Tate Britain. A heady mix of cartoons, comics, paintings and sculpture, The Big Chill presents Rude Britannia curators and artists Cedar Lewisohn, Doug Fishbone, David Shrigley and London Drawing Presents: Adventures In Drawing Life. The exhibition celebrates our own unique sense of humour and how it has satirised everything from politicians to the great British seaside from as early as the 1600s to the YBA movement. This series transports the ideas behind the exhibition, along with some specially commissioned works and happenings, all the way from Tate Britain’s Millbank location to the Eastnor Castle Deer Park.

In the Words in Motion tent Cedar Lewisohn will present a talk outlining the history, vision and artists of Rude Britannia and all it has to offer. Also featuring on this line-up will be the artist Doug Fishbone, with humour being central to his work, Fishbone has created large-scale installations using a huge spectrum of materials including the humble banana in massive quantities creating works in cities across the globe. Best known for his dead-pan cartoons, Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley has several surprises up his sleeve for this year’s Big Chill, so don’t expect him to be confined to any one stage or tent.

Those festival goers feeling inspired by Spencer Tunick’s living sculpture set to take place at The Big Chill can try their own hand at capturing the human body with London Drawing Presents: Adventures In Drawing Life. Offering an introduction to the skill of life drawing, workshops and classes will take place on The Big Chill hill early Saturday and Sunday morning. Pencils and paper will be provided so that everyone can unlock their creativity and work on the premise that no skills or drawing experience are needed to make strong and exciting work and with such a stunning backdrop and models to sketch, Chiller’s will be walking away from the festival with their own work of art. 

For more information, and to buy tickets, please go to www.bigchill.net/festival