Belle & Sebastian to curate Bowlie 2

Belle & Sebastian have announced that they will curate a three-day music festival at Butlin's, Minehead holiday camp in Somerset on December 10-12.

Tickets for the Bowlie 2 event go onsale on Monday March 29 at £165 for room-only accommodation and £175 for self-catering. Early bird tickets are £20 cheaper until April 5 and £10 cheaper from April 12.

A statement on the band's website read: "The event follows in the tradition of the original Bowlie Weekender at Camber Sands in 1999 and the subsequent All Tomorrow's Parties events, whose esteemed curators have included the likes of Mogwai, Matt Groening, Pavement and Jim Jarmusch.

"We are in the process of piecing together the line up and are already really excited by the way it is shaping up: we will announce the first few bands at the start of next week and add more throughout the course of the summer."

The first Bowlie weekender featured performances from Camera Obscura, The Flaming Lips, Vic Godard, Mercury Rev, Sleater-Kinney and Teenage Fanclub, among others.