Alt-J, The Libertines And The Jesus And Mary Chain Among Best Kept Secret 2015 First Announcements

  • 10 February 2015

The Netherlands' Best Kept Secret Festival won't be a secret for long if they keep introducing stellar acts such as this each year! The first line-up announcement includes Alt-J, The Libertines and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Image caption Alt-J to headline Sunday's line-up

Sunday, however, will be the festival's stand out day with Mercury Prize winning headliners Alt-J joined by Brit nominees Royal Blood, London poet Kate Tempest, Sunset Sons who are set to release a new EP entitled 'The Fall Line' in March and Dan Deacon who's returning with his own new album 'Glass Riffer' in two weeks time. Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood will be accompanied by The London Contemporary Orchestra for some stage renditions of movie soundtracks, including 'There Will Be Blood', 'Norwegian Wood' and 'Inherent Vice'. Best Kept Secret will also see the return of Baltimore synth-pop band Future Islands.

More: Read our review of Alt-J's second album 'This Is All Yours'

Best Kept Secret Festival takes place from 19th - 21st June 2015 in Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands. Tickets are now available with day tickets priced at £52, weekend passes at £94, plus camping licenses at £17.

Line-up:
alt-J
Alvvays
Ariel Pink
BADBADNOTGOOD
Bass Drum Of Death
Binkbeats
Black Mountain
Chet Faker
Dan Deacon
Daniel Romano
Daniel Wilson
Death Cab For Cutie
Eagulls
Earl Sweatshirt
Evian Christ
Fickle Friends
First Aid Kit
Future Brown
Future Islands
Gengahr
Hinds
Hookworms
Jonny Greenwood & The London Contemporary Orchestra
Kate Tempest
Kiasmos
Kindness
Liima
Little May
METZ
Matthew E. White
Mew
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
OFF!
Of Monsters And Men
Outfit
Pissed Jeans
Pretty Vicious
Reigning Sound
Royal Blood
SOHN
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Steve Gunn
Strand of Oaks
Sunset Sons
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy live
The Libertines
The Tallest Man On Earth
The Vaccines
Waxahatchee
Weval (live)
Wolf Alice
Yak
Yung Lean & Sadboys