Peter Hook & The Light, We Are Scientists set for Long Division festival

Peter Hook & The Light and We Are Scientists are set for Long Division after the festival confirmed its full line-up for 2019.

Asian Dub Foundation and Penguin Cafe are two more artists who’ll be joining the likes of Bill Ryder-Jones, Avi Buffalo and Art Brut in Wakefield between May 29-June 2nd. “After our biggest ever year in 2018, our feeling for 2019 very much centred around this phrase of ‘More Than A Festival’, ” says the event’s director Dean Freeman.

“We’ve always been challenged by the physical spaces and the infrastructure in Wakefield; we’re not a city setup to host something like Long Division. But we’ve always turned that into a positive, making the festival an unusual but joyfully surprising experience.”

“We continue to do that, beyond the music we put on – though I do feel that this is our strongest line-up yet from the headliners right down to those emerging artists.. It’s about using the festival idea and turning it into something more; let’s raise money for a mental health charity, let’s run an education programme to find the next generation of DIY promoters, let’s offer £500 to local artists to create something new and show it off to these audiences, as they travel between Peter Hook and Asian Dub Foundation.”