Headlining Beautiful Days 2015 are Dropkick Murphys playing their only UK festival date this year, plus Happy Mondays celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 1990 record 'Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches' and festival founders Levellers who will close the show on the Sunday night. 

They will be joined on the main stage bill over the weekend by festival favourites and gypsy-punk troupe Gogol Bordello, Idlewild, The Dhol Foundation, Katzenjammer, Hoffmaestro,Hudson Taylor, Slamboree and Coco and the Butterfields. The festival also welcomes back 2-Tone veterans The Beat, Dizraeli & The Small Gods, Mad Caddies, Kim Churchill, Syd Arthur, The Skints, Birth of Joy, The Sundowners and CC Smugglers.

Headlining on the festival's Big Top stage are former Dr Feelgood guitarist and Blockhead Wilko Johnson, plus The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and an exclusive performance 10 years on from its premiere at Beautiful Days 2005 of the musical story of John Lilburne - Rev Hammer's Freeborn John featuring Maddy Prior, Kathryn Roberts, Sean Lakeman, Rory McLeod, Phil Johnstone and members of the Levellers.

Also appearing on The Big Top stage are Eddi Reader, Rich Hall's Hoedown, Duke Special, Jack Savoretti, Peatbog Faeries, The Moulettes. Rory McLeod, Keston Cobblers Club, Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs, Philip Henry & Hannah Martin,  Gaz Brookfield, Kill It Kid, She Makes War, Levellers Acoustic and a screening of 'A Curious Life' -a film about the Levellers rise to fame in the 1990s.

The Little Big Top will play host to Mistajam, The Mouse Outfit, Prince Fatty Soundsystem and Dub Colussus Soundsystem plus TC, Chris Tofu, Dutty Moonshine Big Band, Backbeat Soundsystem, Mr Nice, Ben & Lex, Astralasia, Lewah, Insomniax, Lionstar, Catalyst, Solar Wolf, DJ Ambiessence, DJ Farmer, Old Man's Corner, N.U.M.B., Don Johnston, Sacred Geometry Band, DJ Shiny Beast, Glissando Guitar Orchestra, MCs Johnny G, Jay Tuns & Westman and the Silent Disco.

The festival's seated Theatre Tent welcomes the bizarre and sensational Circus of Horrors, plus L’Hotel performing 'Circo Rum Ba Ba', the absurdly comic and acrobatic Une Femme Exposee performed by Abigail Collins, Just4Funk's breaking BBoys dance show and Boppin Bunnies' interactive music shows. Physical comedy theatrecompany Le Navet Bete return to perform 'Napoleon' and Entertainingly Different are back with their Rise n Shine workshops and Traditional Tales show.

The Sunday theme for 2015 is THIS GARDEN.......think flowers, hedgehogs, butterflies, trees, bumblebees, weeds, birds, gnomes....full outfits or accessories, its up to you. The site art and other elements of the festival will be influenced, as usual, by the theme.

Beautiful Days is a family music festival that has no corporate sponsorship or branding and does not advertise. The festival takes place at Escot Park in Devon with six stages, site art, a huge children’s area, comedy, theatre, family camping, licensed real ale bars from Otter Brewery & a great choice of food and craft stalls. The line-ups for the last two stages, The Bimble Inn and The Band Stand, will be announced in the coming months. 

TICKETS - Adult Weekend Camping Tickets are £135, 10 to Under 16’s Weekend Camping Tickets £65, 5 to Under 10’s Weekend Camping Tickets £35, Under 5’s Weekend Camping Tickets £5, Car routing/parking tickets £15 and Campervan tickets £40.All tickets are subject to booking fee. There are no day tickets available. Tickets on sale now.