AS one of the only festivals to combine a line-up of Iggy Pop, Richard Ashcroft, The Who and Scotland darlings Crash Club, the 2016 edition of Isle of Wight really was one for the history books.
With Medicine Men’s Ian Mackinnon in-tow for the performance, Crash Club done themselves extremely proud with a powerful rendition of hits from their fast-growing catalogue, powering through renditions of ‘Recondition’ and ‘Pennydrop’.
Sunset Sons and The Kills were massively impressive on Saturday afternoon. Sunset Sons have catapulted themselves into arenas and Main Stages in such a short amount of time, it’s truly a pleasure to watch their energy unfold onstage. Whereas rock ‘n’ roll veterans The Kills are back with another new record, one which is packed to the core with hits and melodic hooks to create an atmosphere that festival goers crave.
As previously mentioned, the top end of the line-up was really something to shout about. Iggy Pop played his first UK festival gig of the summer before going on to the likes of Rock En Seine in Paris later this August. Iggy Pop created a massive crowd at the Main Stage on Saturday evening, closely followed by both Richard Ashcroft and The Who – it was a night to go down in then festival’s many incredible highlights.
The This Feeling stage, supported by Jack Rocks, was also a massive highlight of the weekend, putting on incredible sets from the likes of Hidden Charms, Yak, Baby Strange and The Shimmer Band – the latter an outfit we are predicting big things from in the coming months if their new track is anything to go by. Check it out below:
With impeccable organisation from start to finish, a truly glorious site to call its home and bands that pulled out some of the best performances of the year so far (we’re talking to you Blossoms and Check out our photo gallery from the 2016 festival here and recap on 2015’s event here.
