Wave of new acts announced for bluedot 2023 festival at Jodrell Bank

The festival takes places between July 20 and 23, and headliners include Grace Jones, Roisin Murphy and Pavement.

Pioneering electronic duo 2manydjs join the bill on Saturday evening, closing the Orbit arena with a late-night DJ set.

2023 headliner Roisin Murphy (Image: Roisin Murphy)

The Dewaele brothers descend on Jodrell Bank 21 years on from the infamous mix album As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part 2 and with decades of mixes to keep the party going well into Sunday, having recently headlined a sold-out Printworks London.

Alongside 2manydjs on Saturday’s late-night bill is Erol Alkan, the DJ and producer behind some of electronic music’s best loved remixes of recent years and the founder of Phantasy, the record label home of Daniel Avery, Red Axes and Alkan’s own Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve project.

bluedot 2022 (Image: bluedot)

Also joining Saturday’s bill is London indie rock band Sorry, who scored near-universal praise for their debut album ‘925’ and again for their second release Anywhere But Here in late 2022.

Alongside 2manydjs and Erol Alkan as part of bluedot’s Late Night line-up is the winner of BBC One’s ‘Essential Mix of the Year’ in 2021 and founder of record label Femme Culture, British producer and DJ Elkka, plus Future Utopia, the production project of Fraser T Smith, whose songwriting credits include collaboration with Stormzy, Adele and Dave.

Creep Show, the project of John Grant and analogue electro trio Wrangler (featuring Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire) will perform on Friday, with a set of experimental pop and surreal funk previewing new material following the release of their 2018 debut Mr Dynamite.

2023 headliner Grace Jones (Image: Andrea Klarin)

Today, February 28, bluedot has also revealed day splits and day tickets for 2023, found here: discoverthebluedot.com.

Following a Thursday night opening concert from Max Richter and the BBC Concert Orchestra performing VOICES and Recomposed, the defacto queen of discopop Róisín Murphy takes top spot on Friday evening’s Lovell Stage after Django Django and Black Country, New Road, while lo-fi pioneers Pavement headline Saturday at bluedot with an exclusive only UK performance of 2023 alongside Dry Cleaning, Malian desert blues pioneers Tinariwen and culture from Moonage Daydream creator Brett Morgen and Nish Kumar.

2023 headliner Pavement (Image: Pavement)

The iconic Grace Jones will close the festival on Sunday beneath the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s Lovell Telescope with her only northern show of the summer, preceded by Mercury Prize winners Young Fathers and with Max Cooper closing the Orbit arena with a special 3D/AV immersive show, before the weekend is wrapped up with a Closing Party headlined by Annie Mac.