Isle of Wight Festival 2005

Isle of Wight Festival 2005
Genre rock, pop
Dates 10–12 June 2005
Location(s) Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK
Website
Official website

The Isle of Wight Festival 2005 is the fourth revived Isle of Wight Festival on the Seaclose Park site in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The attendance of this festival was around 50,000, a 15,000 increase on sales of the year before, which was testament to its growing success as a British music festival. It was the second year of Nokia sponsorship, which saw the likes of The Who, David Bowie and R.E.M. grace the Island stage.

In this year the Isle of Wight festival began to seriously stake its claim as one of the big festivals of Britain. Attracting a line-up featuring Faithless, Travis and R.E.M.. This event was filmed and highlights of the event were shown at late night by Channel 4. This was scheduled to include Morrissey as the Saturday night headliner, but he had to pull out and was replaced by Travis.

New Features

Highlights

Line Up

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

References

1. bbc.co.uk Entertainment

External links

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