{"id":646779,"date":"2026-06-19T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646779\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:26:09","slug":"in-pictures-isle-of-wight-festival-2026-gets-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646779\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Isle of Wight Festival 2026 gets under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026 Isle of Wight Festival is under way at Seaclose Park near Newport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s event has sold out, with more than 50,000 festival-goers set to enjoy good weather over the four days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis Capaldi and Wet Leg top the bill on Friday, with Calvin Harris headlining Saturday and The Cure closing proceedings on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The campsite opened at 10:00 BST on Thursday with crowds arriving early to claim the best pitches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rita Ora, The Last Dinner Party and Chloe Quisha are among the other artists appearing over the next three days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event, which famously hosted one of the largest music crowds in history in 1970, was revived in 2002 after a long absence from the festival scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Isle of Wight Festival is under way at Seaclose Park near Newport. This year&#8217;s event has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}