Olly Murs performing at Carrow Road last year. Picture: James Bass.
Olly Murs, Pixie Lott and Dizzee Rascal among top acts announced for Norfolk Spectacular, which is renamed as the Sundown Festival
David Freezer
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
6:30 AM
Pop stars Olly Murs, Pixie Lott and Dizzee Rascal are the big names who will headline this year’s Norfolk Spectacular.
Pixie Lott. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire.Last year’s inaugural two-day music festival attracted around 30,000 people to the Norfolk Showground, which has allowed its organisers to attract some more mainstream musicians this year.
The festival has also been renamed and will now be known as the Sundown Festival.
With further acts still to be added to the bill, other confirmed acts also include; drum and bass DJs Chase & Status, dubstep star Katy B, Radio One rock DJ Zane Lowe and rapper Miss Dynamite.
Sundown Festival spokesman, Dion Clements, said: “The exciting mix of these chart-topping, urban-tipped and dance acts is just the start of what will be a massive line-up of the music world’s hot talents, in an event that is expected to firmly place the Sundown Festival on the annual, live-music event calendar.
“Together with the new name – truly appropriate for the timing of the festival towards the end of summer – the additional organisers and top line-up, we’re opening up the event to people from right across the UK as well as the fans who supported last year’s event on a massive scale.”
The festival is being held over the weekend of September 1 and 2 and will also incorporate a series of ‘after-hours’ warehouse parties for those camping on-site, of which there were around 2,000 last year.
- For more details of the Sundown Festival’s Saturday and Sunday line-ups, click the links on the top-right of this page.
- For more details or to book tickets for the event, go to www.norfolkspectacular.co.uk or www.nationalboxoffice.co.uk, or call 0871 224 1112 or 0871 224 1113.
- What do you think of the line-up? Contact reporter David Freezer on 01603 772418 or david.freezer@archant.co.uk, or tweet @davefreezer
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11 comments
Here it comes...concerts on the Showground represent a significant change of use. Those who bought homes in Easton etc were probably expecting inconvenience a few times a year but not a great deal of noise. One can hardly blame them for moaning about being forced to listen to the likes of the above. Now if it was the IOW 1970 ( or 1969) line up it would be a different matter !
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Daisy Roots
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Fair enough, Whipsnade, but if you know this site cannot cope with forward slashes, why still use them? A bit wet really. Happy now?
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Mad Brewer
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
See this website still cannot cope with the forward slash....now await feeble jokes about urinating positions.
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LARSON.E. WHIPSNADE
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Why does this Murs bloke wear a hat 247 when we all know he is going prematurely bald ? Face up to it.
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LARSON.E. WHIPSNADE
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Nexus_6 - I agree. Olly Murs is awful. I wouldn't even be paid to see him, let alone pay TO see him! I like Pixie Lott though, if this was her solo concert I would go. As for the people moaning about the noise, get over it!
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dx456
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
ST, it`s a pity Roy Orbison has passed on. Now he WAS a singer.
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Mad Brewer
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Where's the full lineup? You say see links in top right, I can't find it. Sounds worse than last year I'm hoping some more big acts will be there.
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fryboy
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
great idea for the kids, putting Norwich on the musical map. As a 46 year old i wont be gouing thankyou i would rather have surgery but my kids will love it! No doubt the miserable old f**t brigade will be kicking off again but thay always will. My generation embarrasses me sometimes. "Do as i do, like what i like, be what i say" merchants! Message to all the kids.....have fun, enjoy it, :-) Just one thing..... how about a rock festival too for us oldies? Deep Purple, Ozzy, Iron Maiden headlining? Now that would be amazing!!
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simon taylor
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Norfolk Spectacular was a better name. Google Sundown Festival and you get a tonne of names!
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omnishambles
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Spectacular and Olly Murs are two things that really don't belong in the same sentence.I wouldn't watch him if he was playing in my local pub.Pixie Lott isn't exactly an amazing singer either,but at least she is quite nice to look at.There used to be some good gigs at Waterloo Park,and they had a really good free music festival at Earlham Park a few years ago that went on all day,with various stages and marquees.They should do something like that again.
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Nexus_6
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Great news - watch out for the fun police squad though - they will be moaning about the noise!
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IT Man
Wednesday, April 4, 2012