The Bowlie Weekender was a music festival curated by Belle & Sebastian at the Pontin's Holiday camp in Camber Sands, Sussex between Friday 23 and Sunday 25 April 1999.
The event was the inspiration for All Tomorrow's Parties, a music festival held at the same venue in Sussex every year from 2000 until it moved to Butlin's Minehead in 2006.
As part of the festival's tenth year celebrations, Belle & Sebastian was invited to curate an ATP weekend in December 2010, dubbed "Bowlie 2".
In August 2019, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first festival, Belle & Sebastian held a third festival, dubbed the "Boaty Weekender". Unlike the previous two festivals, the Boaty Weekender was held on the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea (sailing from Barcelona) instead of Camber Sands.
1999 Lineup The lineup included: AC Acoustics Amphetameanies Belle & Sebastian Broadcast Camera Obscura Cinema Cornelius Dean and Sean (Dean Wareham and Sean Eden of Luna) The Delgados The Divine Comedy The Flaming Lips Vic Godard Godspeed You! Black Emperor The Ladybug Transistor Looper Mercury Rev Mogwai The Pastels Salako Sleater-Kinney Snow Patrol Sodastream Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Teenage Fanclub V-Twin Bill Wells Octet
DJs Jarvis Cocker Tim Gane Steve Lamacq Steve Mackey Justin Spear Andrew Symington
2010 lineup The 2010 lineup included:
Belle & Sebastian Julian Cope The Vaselines Frightened Rabbit Field Music Howlin Rain Those Dancing Days Teenage Fanclub Isobel Campbell (with Mark Lanegan) The New Pornographers Vashti Bunyan Silver Columns Foals Crystal Castles Dean Wareham Mulatu Astatke Edwyn Collins Steve Mason Dirty Projectors The Zombies Jenny and Johnny Sons And Daughters Trembling Bells Abagail Grey The 1900s 1990s Best Coast The Phenomenal Handclap Band Amphetameanies Peter Parker Them Beatles Wild Beasts Camera Obscura Saint Etienne The Go! Team Laetitia Sadier Stevie Jackson Franz Ferdinand (Secret Band) Jane Weaver Daniel Kitson and Gavin Osborn Zoey Van Goey
2019 "Boaty Weekender" lineup Belle & Sebastian Mogwai Yo La Tengo Camera Obscura Teenage Fanclub Django Django Alvvays Buzzcocks (with Steve Diggle on vocals) Japanese Breakfast The Vaselines Honeyblood Hinds Kelly Lee Owens Nilüfer Yanya Whyte Horses Tracyanne & Danny Alex Edelman Propaganda Elizabeth Electra Campfire Social Wet Look Wojtek the Bear
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