A huge thank you to everyone who came to Port Eliot this weekend. We hope you had as much fun as we did! We’ll be adding 2010 festival photos to the site shortly so sign up to our email newsletter (top right of this page) and we’ll send you a link when the new galleries are ready to browse.

If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning one of three pairs of FREE tickets for the 2011 festival, then email your best three photos to editor@porteliotfestival.com before 31 August.

PLUS:

Hailed as “the David Attenborourgh of radio” and creator of Port Eliot’s much-loved Nature Disco, award-winning sound artist Chris Watson is working on a special event for this year’s festival. Fresh off the plane from the North Pole, where he was working on the BBC’s Frozen Planet (to be broadcast in 2011), Chris came to Port Eliot in May to record for a unique new sound installation – ‘Dusk Until Dawn – A Soundscape around Port Eliot’ – which he’ll be presenting in the Round Room. Watch this short video to find out more:

Chris Watson recording at Port Eliot from Port Eliot Festival on Vimeo.

The 2010 line-up for Britain’s most eclectic and lovingly-curated festival included…

JARVIS COCKER
HARPER SIMON
LUELLA BARTLEY
LOUIS DE BERNIERES
ROSIE BOYCOTT
MARGARET DRABBLE
BILL DRUMMOND
GEOFF DYER
RIVER COTTAGE CANTEEN
TALVIN SINGH
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS ART TENT
FIONN REGAN
DANNY & THE CHAMPIONS OF
THE WORLD

ALABAMA 3
FISHERMEN’S FRIENDS
JAKOB DYLAN
LUKE HAINES
TOBY YOUNG
MARINA HYDE
BARBARA HULANICKI
ANNA SUI
SANDY POWELL
ROSS SUTHERLAND
HARI KUNZRU
STEPHEN JONES
CHERRY GHOST
ALEXANDER MASTERS
MARTIN PARR
EDWARD FOX
ALEX BELLOS

HUGH FEARNLEY- WHITTINGSTALL
GRAYSON PERRY
ED HARCOURT
GAVIN PRETOR PINNEY
KATE REW/ WILD SWIM
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
IDLER’S ACADEMY
FLOWER SHOW
TIM SMIT
JULIEN TEMPLE
WILKO JOHNSON
STEPHEN FREARS
CHRIS WATSON
IAN JACK
LUKE WRIGHT
HUGO WILLIAMS

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“It’s like a fairytale. Those vistas! You have to catch your breath.”

Anna Sui, US Vogue

“All the brains of a literary festival. All the soul of a music festival.”

The Times

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Ben Moor returns to Port Eliot

His one-man show Colecanth was a great hit at last year's festival; now we're pleased to announce actor Ben Moor as a last-minute addition to our 2010 line-up. A star of The I.T Crowd and Knowing You…with Alan Partridge, Ben will be running a drama class in the Idler's Academy*.
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Laura has been a journalist at the Guardian since 2000 and regularly contributes to: The Word magazine, Q, Intelligent Life, Thefirstpost.co.uk, Marie Claire, Elle, ...