Brownstock Festival - Announces headline acts for this years event!

Dizzee Rascal and Razorlight to headline Brownstock Festival's 10th anniversary year!

Brownstock Festival has announced that Dizzee Rascal and Razorlight will headline the 2014 event, Goldie Lookin Chain, The Feeling, DJ EZ, Jack Beats, P Money and Doorly will make up the rest of their first wave line up announcement with more to come in the forthcoming weeks. Brownstock Music Festival is an independent boutique music festival run by the Brown family on their farm near Chelmsford, Essex. This year the festival will be held on the 29th August to the 31st August  2014 and is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a birthday party theme.

Dizzee Rascal

Legendary British rapper Dizzee Rascal will headline Saturday night of the festival. Dizzee’s debut 'Boy in da Corner' is over ten years old now, winning him a Mercury Music Prize kickstarting an amazing career in music. Since then he has collected a host of other awards with both an NME and Brit award under his belt. He has also gone on to release four more albums, three of which went gold and the last of them 'Tongue in Cheek' went platinum. And of course Dizzee Rascal is one of the few artists with the claim to fame of playing at the 2012 Olympics’ opening ceremony, singing 'Bonkers' to an estimated audience of 900 million in a specially made ‘E3’ baseball jacket. There is no mistaking the dirtee stank anthems 'Bonkers' and 'Fix Sharp, Look Sharp' amongst a whole host of collaborations with everyone from Chase and Status to Calvin Harris.

Razorlight

Indie Rock royalty Razorlight will also be taking to the main stage to headline Brownstock 2014. With a huge back catalogue of classic anthems, this NME and Brit award nominated English Indie Rock band are World renown for their chart topping hits such as 'America, Golden Touch' and 'Somewhere Else'. Johnny Borrell is taking a break from his busy solo schedule to make an historic appearance at the birthday party.

Other main names released for the three day festival include:

The Feeling

Brit Awards nominated Pop Rock band The Feeling. With a No.1 selling album, a selection of top ten hits, as well as the claim to fame that they were at one point the most played band on UK radio. Their four singles received a total of 97,436 plays, which meant that, on average, a song by The Feeling was played 267 times every day, once every five minutes.

DJ EZ

Garage supremo and DJ extraordinaire DJ EZ will be one of the featured artists making an appearance in the festivals Good Shed arena. The man literally needs no introduction having destroyed dance floors all over the world and a career spanning three decades. Even now with his Kiss FM radio show, he ignites parties with his infectious brand of mixing UK classics with the latest breakthrough artists. A firm favourite for 2014’s line up.

Goldie lookin' Chain 

Brownstock’s 10th birthday party will not really start until Welsh comedy rap group Goldie lookin' Chain hit the main stage. Although sometimes controversial, group members Rhys, Eggsy and Adam certainly know how to entertain, and since they have recently announced it is ten years since their first live gig they should certainly be ready for the celebrations.

Jack Beats 

Niall Dailly and Ben Geffin make up this extremely successful electronic music duo. Dailly also known as Plus One is a former Scratch Pervert and is a winner of the coveted DMC DJ championship title, meanwhile Beni G was a member of fellow turntablists, The Mixologists.  With a recent Fabric 'Live' compilation under their belts, demand has never been higher to witness the turntable masters in action.

Doorly 

As a Brownstock ambassador this will be Doorly’s 4th appearance at the festival after hosting his own stage in 2012. More recently he’s gone on to play some of the biggest shows the scene has to offer, including a Nokia launch in Times Square, New York, alongside Nicki Minaj in New York.

P Money

Paris Moore-Williams better known by his stage name P Money is an English Grime MC of the highest caliber. Being a New Zealander he made an impact down under being nominated for best Urban / Hip Hop Album at the 2013 New Zealand music swards. However he is now firmly making waves in the UK and finished eighth in MTV's list of the best UK MCs.

With much more to announce in the coming weeks, this initial line up revelation is the first of many coming from the Brownstock camp.

Dates:  29th August to Sun 1st September 2013
For more information go to:  www.brownstock.co.uk 
See www.facebook.com/brownstock for all line up updates and festival news
Twitter @Brownstockfest

Tickets are on sale here. The 1st tier of tickets have sold out, but Tier two tickets are still available.
Three day weekend camping tickets now start at £69.The festivals winter special tickets sold out before Christmas. VIP tickets are also available.
Where: Brownstock Festival is in Essex. fifteen mins from Chelmsford and Southend and two miles from South Woodham Ferrers. It is also a fourty min train ride from London Liverpool Street Station. The festival has an efficient and reasonably priced taxi service on hand to pick you up and bring you to the farm. The festival can also be easily accessed by car.

Check Out! the Dizzee Rascal Video for 'Bonkers' Feat. Armand Van Helden Below...