by Alexandra Pollard Contributor | Photos by WENN

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Wilderness Festival reveals first batch of acts - with two UK exclusives

Flaming Lips and Robert Plant will headline the Oxfordshire festival

 

Wilderness Festival 2016 lineup announcement, Flaming Lips, Plant Photo: WENN

Robert Plant, The Flaming Lips and more are set to perform at this year's Wilderness Festival.

The festival, which takes place in Oxfordshire's Cornbury Park in August, will be bother those artists' only UK festival appearance of the year. Robert Plant will be performing with The Sensational Space Shifters, while The Flaming Lips will perform their seminal album The Soft Bulletin in full.

Speaking of his appearance, Plant said, "In recent times The Space Shifters and I have found a natural home for our music in beautiful places that ofter carry their own unique resonance…I know the Wilderness Festival is one of those places and I’m really looking forward to summoning our madness there…"

Elsewhere on the line-up are the likes of Crystal Fighters, Lianne La Havas, Glass Animals, Shura, Georgia, Rosie Lowe and Matt Corby.

Wilderness Festival takes place in Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire between 4 and 7 August. See the full musical line-up so far below. Get tickets and more information here.

ROBERT PLANT & The Sensational Space Shifters UK EXCLUSIVE PERFORMANCE
THE FLAMING LIPS perform The Soft Bulletin UK EXCLUSIVE PERFORMANCE
CRYSTAL FIGHTERS
PAROV STELAR
LIANNE LA HAVAS
GOLDIE & HERITAGE ORCHESTRA perform Timeless
GLASS ANIMALS
MATT CORBY
SHURA
TOURIST
GEORGIA
ROSIE LOWE
ELIAS HACKNEY COLLIERY BAND

Below: Amazing photos of Wilderness 2015


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