Bowlie Weekender
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The Bowlie Weekender was a music festival curated by Belle & Sebastian at the Pontin's Holiday camp in Camber Sands, Sussex between Friday 23 and Sunday 25 April 1999.
The event was the inspiration for All Tomorrow's Parties, a music festival held at the same venue in Sussex every year from 2000 until it moved to Butlin's Minehead in 2006.
As part of the festival's tenth year celebrations, Belle & Sebastian was invited to curate an ATP weekend in December 2010, dubbed "Bowlie 2".[1]
In August 2019, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first festival, Belle & Sebastian held a third festival, dubbed the "Boaty Weekender".[2] Unlike the previous two festivals, the Boaty Weekender was held on the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea (sailing from Barcelona) instead of Camber Sands.[3][4]
DJs
The lineup included:
- AC Acoustics
- Amphetameanies
- Belle & Sebastian
- Broadcast
- Camera Obscura
- Cinema
- Cornelius
- Dean and Sean (Dean Wareham and Sean Eden of Luna)
- The Delgados
- The Divine Comedy
- The Flaming Lips
- Vic Godard
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- The Ladybug Transistor
- Looper
- Mercury Rev
- Mogwai
- The Pastels
- Salako
- Sleater-Kinney
- Snow Patrol
- Sodastream
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
- Teenage Fanclub
- V-Twin
- Bill Wells Octet