Friday night kicks off with the much loved ‘80s theme with a host of big names guaranteed to get the party started!
Welcoming a variety of legends to grace the main stage, this retro themed evening is guaranteed to get festival goers in the mood for some serious pop nostalgia.
In assocation with Heart FM
- 6.30pm MidiMidis
- 7.15pm Mirrors
- 8.10pm Blancmange
- 9.15pm Heaven 17 (Headliner)
Heaven 17
Heaven 17 are the English synth-pop band originating from Sheffield who started out at the very beginning of the 1980s. Taking their name from a fictitious band in cult movie A Clockwork Orange, the then 3 piece band had a rather quiet impact on the British pop scene before bursting to prominence with the 1983 smash hit “Temptation“, taken from the album “The Luxury Gap”. Further hits followed with “Crushed by the wheels of industry” and “Come live with me” which remains one of the most recognisable 80s synth hits to date.
Blancmange
Blancmange are a 2 piece electro-pop band formed in Middlesex in 1979. The band found initial exposure on the seminal “Some Bizarre Album” featuring alongside Soft Cell and Depeche Mode. They then exploded onto the UK charts with the top 10 single “Living on the Ceiling” in 1982. Further top 20 hits followed including Waves, Blind Vision and 1984 hits Don’t tell me and their cover of ABBA’s The day before you came, both taken from UK top 10 Album, Mange Tout.
Mirrors
Mirrors are an English synth-pop band hailing from Brighton. The 4 piece prefer to describe their 80s inspired brand as “Electronic Soul” and “Pop Noir”, with their main sound source emanating from analogue synthesizers. Their style of synth driven pop sound has been compared to that of Kraftwerk, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the dark and Depeche Mode. 2011 is proving to be a momentous year for the band, with their debut album “Lights and Offerings” released in February. April saw them touring as a headline act in Cologne and they will be supporting OMD in Spain in June, before heading to the Friday night Godiva main-stage.
