Hop Farm Music Festival have announced that Ray Davies & Band will headline the Friday at the Festival, alongside second headliner The Beach Boys Brian Wilson. Ray Davies CBE, one of the most successful and influential songwriters to emerge from the British Invasion of the 1960s, founded the rock band The Kinks with his brother Dave in London in 1964. The band’s string of 14 top ten international hits began with ‘You Really Got Me’, followed by ‘All Day and All of The Night’, ‘Tired of Waiting’, ‘Set Me Free’, ‘‘Dedicated Follower of Fashion’ , ‘Sunny Afternoon’, ‘Waterloo Sunset’, ‘Lola’, ‘Apeman’ and ‘Come Dancing’ among many others.

Also announced for the Main Stage...Deacon Blue, James Blunt, Caro Emerald, Squeeze, Billy Ocean, Dr John, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott, Eliza Doolittle, Arrested Development, Paul Carrick, Scouting For Girls, Echo And The Bunneymen, 10cc, Bellowhead, The Feeling. Sophie Elli-Bextor, Treetop Flyers, Moya with more acts yet to be announced.

The Second Stage acts confirmed are Cara Dillon And The Orchestra of Ireland, Nick Lowe, Maximo ark, Daptone Super Soul revue, Midlake, Daptone Super Soul Revue ft Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Charles Bradley, Marc Almond, Jukebox the Ghost, Peter hook & the Light, The Full English, Ian McNabb, The Beat, Charlotte Church, The Family Rain, Slow Club, Ren Harvieu, Polly And The Billet Doux, Birdie Jackson & The Harbour, My Darling Clementine, Muzivo Band Competition, Lloyd Grossman & The New Forbidden, Danny & The Champions Of The world & Azadeh.

The Jazz & Blues Lounge line up: Royal Southern Brotherhood, Curtis Stigers, Tony Joe Wright, Brassroots, The All Stars Collective, Zoe Rahman, Jacqui Dankworth, Gabby Young and Other Animals, Dana Fuchs, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Yolanda Brown, Zara McFarlane, Soft Machine Legacy, BabaJack, Laurence Jones, Josephine, Toby Jepson, Cameron Pierre, Ian Mclagan, Virgil and the Accelerators, Pacifico Blues, The Weave, Big Boy Bloater & The Limits, and Simon McBride.

The Comedy Tent Line up: Jo Brand, and Rich Hall's Hoedown, Seann Walsh, Josh Widdicombe, Andrew Maxwell, Simon Evans, Rob Rouse, Tom Stade, Angela Barnes, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob Deering, Katherine Ryan, Rob Beckett, Charlie Baker, and Suzi Ruffell.

Hop Farm Festival 2014 takes place at Hop Farm Country Park, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, Kent between Fri 4th to Sun 6th July 2014. Ticket links here.

Adult weekend pass £135, Friday ticket £68, Saturday ticket £78, Sunday ticket £68, Adult with Camping £165

Young Person (13 – 16 years) Weekend pass £79, Friday ticket £35, Saturday ticket £35, Sunday ticket £35, Young Person with Camping £99

Child (3 – 12 years) Weekend Pass £30, Friday ticket £10, Saturday ticket £10, Sunday ticket £10, Child with Camping £35

Campervans (in addition to the above) £80