Bowlie Weekender


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 instead of Camber Sands.

1999 Lineup

The lineup included:
  • AC Acoustics
  • Amphetameanies
  • Belle & Sebastian
  • Broadcast
  • Camera Obscura
  • Cinema
  • Cornelius
  • Dean and Sean
  • 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: