In 2010 we’ll be welcoming 2 Tone favourites Pauline Black of The Selecter to the mainstage on Saturday. Best known for Top 10 singles like Gangsters vs. The Selecter and On My Radio, they are guaranteed to get you dancing!

We also welcome one of the best new bands around, The Leisure Society, whose first single, “The Last of the Melting Snow”, was voted record of the week on the Radcliffe and Maconie Radio 2 show, and also nominated for an Ivor Novello Award. Numerous other accolades have followed their first album, described by The Independent on Sunday as “a uniquely British take on Americana, almost as if Scott Walker or Nick Drake had “gone country”, making music for coal workers rather than cowboys”- judge for yourself as they take to our mainstage on Friday.

Also, the latest signing from the David Gray/Damien Rice camp, we welcome John Smith; a dazzlingly inventive guitarist, with lightning-fast fingerpicking and jaw-droppingly unconventional percussive techniques. Brought up on a diet of Muddy Waters, Ry Cooder and Paul Simon, John has toured with the likes of John Martyn, Martin Carthy and Martin Simpson, and supported Jools Holland and David Gray.