{"id":79154,"date":"2022-12-01T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=79154"},"modified":"2022-12-01T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:31:22","slug":"towersey-festival-announces-first-headliner-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/12\/towersey-festival-announces-first-headliner-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"TOWERSEY FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FIRST HEADLINER FOR 2023!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THE UK\u2019S LONGEST RUNNING INDEPENDENT FAMILY FESTIVAL OF MUSIC, COMEDY, CEILIDH, CRAFTS &amp; FAMILY FUN LAUNCH THE TOWERSEY ADVENT CALENDAR, TO REVEAL THEIR GIFT OF 24 GREAT NEW ACTS AND HAPPENINGS EACH DAY UP TO CHRISTMAS!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE DIVINE COMEDY has been revealed today via the Towersey Festival Advent Calendar, as the first exciting headliner for 2023, over 25<sup>TH<\/sup> \u2013 28<sup>TH<\/sup> August, Bank Holiday Weekend at The Claydon Estate, Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"79155\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/12\/towersey-festival-announces-first-headliner-for-2023\/image-74\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image.png?fit=550%2C289&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,289\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image.png?fit=550%2C289&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image.png?resize=634%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79155\" width=\"634\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image.png?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image.png?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will be followed by a daily reveal in the advent calendar on Towersey\u2019s social media platforms of further acts and attractions running up to Xmas, culminating on Dec 24<sup>th<\/sup> with Santa dropping an act down Towersey\u2019s chimney that we\u2019d definitely walk 500 miles to see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Towersey Festival, the UK\u2019s longest-running independent festival, organised by generations of the same family, is a well-established festival &amp; firm favourite of the merry making local communities throughout Bucks\/ Berks and Oxfordshire.\u00a0 With a mix of contemporary and traditional acts the festival is proud to program \u2018<em>Any stream, but mainstream!\u2019<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Making The Divine Comedy a perfect top to the bill for the friendly four-day event.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Divine Comedy have been making interesting music, inspired by the creative arts &amp; classic songs and words from writers such as Tolstoy, F Scott Fitzgerald, E.M Forster, Scott Walker &amp; A.A Milne for 30 years. Breaking into the Top 40 singles charts during Britpop alongside the likes of Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) and Brett Anderson (Suede) with <em>Something For The Weekend; Becoming More Like Alfie &amp; The Frog Princess (From the album Casanova) <\/em>Lead singer Neil Hannon proclaims the bands success to be down to a perfect mix of knowledge and ignorance. They have released 12 studio albums throughout their career &amp; their highest album chart position to date\u00a0 (Top 5) in 2019 came with <em>Office Politics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tickets on sale now<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.towerseyfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE UK\u2019S LONGEST RUNNING INDEPENDENT FAMILY FESTIVAL OF MUSIC, COMEDY, CEILIDH, CRAFTS &#038; FAMILY FUN LAUNCH THE TOWERSEY ADVENT CALENDAR, TO REVEAL THEIR GIFT OF 24 GREAT NEW ACTS AND HAPPENINGS EACH DAY UP TO CHRISTMAS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"THE UK\u2019S LONGEST RUNNING INDEPENDENT FAMILY FESTIVAL OF MUSIC, COMEDY, CEILIDH, CRAFTS & FAMILY FUN LAUNCH THE TOWERSEY ADVENT CALENDAR, TO REVEAL THEIR GIFT OF 24 GREAT NEW ACTS AND HAPPENINGS EACH DAY UP TO CHRISTMAS!","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3768,16518,7,12133],"tags":[3894,261,12,5799,2147,29201],"class_list":["post-79154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-festivals","category-music","category-news","tag-advent-calendar","tag-festival","tag-music","tag-news","tag-the-divine-comedy","tag-towersey-festival"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-kAG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16693,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-the-mariachis-coz-its-christmas-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":79154,"position":0},"title":"Essential Advent Calendar: The Mariachis &#8211; &#8216;Coz It&#8217;s Christmas Time&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"24\/12\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Christmas Eve and the second last entry for our Essential Advent Calendar: the Mariachis with 'Coz It's Christmas Time'.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christmas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Christmas","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/archived-categories\/christmas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Mariachis.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Mariachis.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Mariachis.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":32014,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-new-hope-club-whoever-he-is-christmas-song\/","url_meta":{"origin":79154,"position":1},"title":"Essential Advent Calendar: New Hope Club &#8211; &#8216;Whoever He Is (Christmas Song)&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"21\/12\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"New Hope Club have revealed their brand new festive track and video, 'Whoever He Is (Christmas Song)'. 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