2007 festival The inaugural Field Day festival took place on 11 August 2007, with the first
Underage Festival taking place the same weekend. Over fifty artists featured across four stages, as well as a musical
bandstand. Artists included the
1990s,
Absentee, Adem,
Alberta Cross,
Andrew Weatherall,
Archie Bronson Outfit,
Bat for Lashes,
Battles,
Caribou, Casper C, The Cock N Bull Kid, Crispin Dior, El Plate,
Electrelane,
Erol Alkan,
Euros Childs,
Fanfarlo,
Filthy Dukes,
Florence and the Machine,
Foals,
Four Tet,
Fridge,
GoodBooks,
Gruff Rhys, Hannah Holland,
James Yorkston, Jo Jo de Freq,
Justice,
Kid Harpoon,
Late of the Pier,
Laura Marling,
Liars, Matt Walsh,
Matthew Dear, Miss Odd Kidd,
Mystery Jets, Nadia Ksaiba, Patchwork Pirates,
The Pictish Trail,
Pull Tiger Tail, Skull Juice,
The Aliens,
The Concretes,
The Earlies, The Lovely Jonjo,
Vetiver, Warboy,
White Rabbits, Young Turks and Zombie Disco Squad. Originally being billed as a capacity of 6,000, the amount was increased to 10,000 shortly before the festival.
2008 festival The 2008 event took place on 9 August 2008, with the Underage Festival taking place the previous day. The entire site was redesigned by Vanguardia Consulting, who provide specialist advice on sound control. Capacity was increased to 20,000, and bars and toilets across the site were doubled. More than fifty artists were again billed for the festival, including
Simian Mobile Disco,
Les Savy Fav,
Mystery Jets and
Laura Marling. The event was headlined by
Foals, in what was their first UK headline festival performance. A 25-member
brass band was also added as a final addition to the line-up. The event now featured five stages, an increase from the previous year. The main stage was retitled the "
Converse Century Stage", to reflect the company's 100-year anniversary in 2008. A similar stage was used at Underage Festival the previous day. • Dan Deacon had been due to play on the
NME stage, but was later forced to pull out due to passport issues. They were later replaced by
Lightspeed Champion.
2009 festival The 2009 festival took place on 1 August 2009, one day prior to Underage. The first line-up announcements were made on 28 January 2009, when
NME announced that
Mogwai would headline the event.
Four Tet,
James Yorkston,
Apes and Androids,
Malcolm Middleton,
Fennesz,
Errors and
Skream were also announced. Further line-up additions were announced on 7 April 2009, including
The Horrors,
Little Boots,
Santigold and
Mystery Jets. Other line-up announcements have been sporadically announced through the festival's
Twitter account.
2010 Festival The 2010 event was confirmed to take place on 31 July 2010, in their fourth annual outing in Victoria Park. On 9 February 2010, it was announced that
Phoenix would headline the event, with
Amiina,
Beth Jeans Houghton,
Caribou, Esben and the Witch,
Chilly Gonzalez,
Corsano and
Flowers, Gold Panda,
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, James Holden, Joker & MC Nomad,
Max Tundra,
Memory Tapes,
Mouse on Mars, Pantha Du Prince and
Silver Apples also announced to perform. Further acts were announced on 12 March 2010, when Babeshadow, Carte Blanche (
DJ Mehdi &
Riton), Chapel Club,
Hudson Mohawke,
Lightspeed Champion,
No Age,
Simian Mobile Disco,
Tamikrest,
The Fall,
These New Puritans and
YucK were added. The festival is set to expand further to six stages, including the Outdoor live stage, Adventures in the Beetroot Field arena, Homefires stage, Bugged Out! arena, Bloggers Delight stage, and the musical
bandstand. For the first time in 2010, Field Day is to take part in a festival 'twinning' scheme, organised by the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF). The initiative encourages twinned festivals to swap artists and cross promote each other's events. Field Day was 'twinned' with the
Øya Festival in
Oslo,
Norway. Besides, more than 200 performers signed an open letter urging Field Day festival event organizers to cut ties with the investor firm. The full line up includes: == References ==