The mighty Bestival are announcing one band from its line-up each day over the coming weeks. We’ll have a full round-up for you soon but in the meantime start jumping around and getting excited because one of our Twelvex12 artists, Friends, have just been confirmed for the festival!

Rob da Bank’s Bestival has also added First Aid Kit and the legendary Orbital to its line-up as well as announcing a theme for the entire event: wildlife. Apparently this will include an Insect Museum… Erm, we’ll be at the Friends gig instead.

Tickets are on sale now and the event takes place between the 6th and 9th September on the Isle of White. More announcements to come!

Following The Great Escape line-up announcement yesterday, here we are with more festival news! Today Liverpool Sound City reveals its headline and initial support acts.

Professor Green will fill the headline slot with White Denim, Death in Vegas, Cloud Nothings (pictured), Charlie XCX, Yukon Blonde and Fixers also announced.

The international music and arts festival takes place in Liverpool from 17th-19th May and will also host the UK Music Student Awards this year.

Early Bird tickets are on sale now! Catch them before they disappear on 6th February.

The most exciting new music event of the year has unveiled its first wave of acts. As the heart of Brighton is transformed into a vibrant buzz, we’re very excited to see that amongst the artists playing the 30+ venues will be four of our Twelve x 12 artists, Dry The River, Spector, Friends and Alt-J as well as Amazing Radio mainstays Zulu Winter, Howler, Nils Frahm, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, DZ Deathrays and Bos Angeles.

The Great Escape will return to Brighton from 10th-12th May 2012, presenting festival-goers with over 300 new local and international artists across 30 different venues throughout the city. Alongside this is The Great Escape Convention programme which hosts a variety of industry talks, panel debates, targeted networking sessions and key note interviews for industry professionals and music business fans.

We’re celebrating this announcement on Amazing Radio today as Charlie Ashcroft plays a whole hour’s worth of The Great Escape line-up from 10am this morning. On the Afternoon Show from 3pm, Greg Porter will be speaking to one of the event’s organisers and at 7pm Gill Mills dedicates her show to the artists on the announcement.

Early-bird tickets are available now from The Great Escape website and the full line-up so-far can be seen below.

Africa Express Sound System, Dry The River, Spector, We Are the Ocean, Friends, Howler, Zulu Winter, Grimes, DZ Deathrays , Nils Frahm, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Jamie N Commons, Django Django, Eagulls, Perfume Genius, Com Truise, Δ (Alt-J), When Saints Go Machine, Sonic Boom Six, François And The Atlas Mountains, Bos Angeles, Young Dreams, Doldrums, Weird Dreams, Young Magic, The British Expeditionary Force, Max Cooper, Jinja Safari, College, Graphics, Slow Down, Molasses, Mojo Fury, Mallory Knox, Hawk Eyes , Peace , Yukon Blonde, Emma Louise, Juveniles, Binary, Sing Tank, The Soft, Karlmarx, Inland Sea, Half Moon Run , Owlle, Princess Chelsea, Mesparrow, Stranded Horse, Avalanche City, Trust, The Darcys, Jordan Cook and many more to be announced soon.