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Michael Kiwanuka, Spiritualized and Metronomy to headline End of the Road festival

Courtney Barnett and Jarvis Cocker also join lineup for eclectic West Country summer gathering

End of the Road has announced that Michael Kiwanuka, Metronomy and Spiritualized will be headlining the festival this year, hosted at Larmer Tree Gardens, on the Wiltshire-Dorset border, from 29 August to 1 September.

British soul musician Kiwanuka supported Adele on her world tour in 2011 and won the BBC’s Sound of 2012 poll; more recently won the 2017 Ivor Novello award for best song, for his politically engaged Black Man In a White World. This is his first major festival headline slot, and suggests new material will be released later this year.

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