Jamie Webster performing at Neighbourhood Weekender 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Isle Of Wight Festival will be held this year between June 15th-18th.
Jamie Webster, Peter Hook & The Light, Brooke Combe and CMAT are some of those added to the line-up for Isle Of Wight Festival 2023.
Pulp, George Ezra, The Chemical Brothers and Robbie Williams will be headlining the main stage in June, leading an event which Live4ever was at in 2021 as live music began to emerge from the pandemic lockout:
“The Main Stage gets the nineties; two consecutive sun-soaked afternoons soundtracked firstly by the understated jangle-pop of The Lightning Seeds,” our review reads.
“It’s a simple greatest hits set, and in turn an indication of how many of these they have. The next afternoon, Supergrass have the Best Of on display too but, as Gaz Coombes notes, they’re also enduring ‘one of the longest fucking reunions ever’.”
If such a successful band having the wind taken out of the sails of their comeback isn’t exactly one of the biggest artistic tragedies of the pandemic, it’s still another sign of its wide-ranging consequences. The set has it all, but fails to shake off a lingering feeling that what could’ve been one of 2020’s best stories has now been reduced to one of 2021’s more melancholic footnotes.