With 1976 seeing Sex Pistols sign to EMI, The Ramones release their debut album and the formation of The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Slits, X-Ray Spex, Black Flag and The Adverts, the year is to some seen as the dawn of punk. Taking that to heart, Isle Of Wight Festival organisers are celebrating 40 years of the genre at next year’s event.
Iggy Pop, Adam Ant, The Damned, Buzzcocks, The Godfathers and The Sex Pistol Dolls have all be added to the line-up, that already includes Queen + Adam Lambert, Faithless and Stereophonics as headliners.
Iggy Pop will appear on the Main Stage, with Adam Ant performing ‘Kings of the Wild Frontier’ in full. The Damned and The Buzzcocks will celebrate their own 40th anniversaries with tracks from their back-catalogues, and The Godfathers will entertain following their 2008 reunion.
The Sex Pistol Dolls will celebrate 40 years since Sex Pistols signed to EMI.
Full details and tickets are available via the official Isle Of Wight Festival website.