Icebreaker and BJ Cole perform Brian Eno's 'Apollo'

Formed in 1989 by James Poke and John Godfrey, Icebreaker are a collective of 13 exceptionally talented musicians playing a diverse range of instruments from pan-pipes to keys, electric strings to Saxaphone and have established themselves over the years as the UK’s leading contemporary music interpreters and a unique voice in British music making.

BJ Cole is a unique innovator on the Pedal Steel Guitar who has carved out a formidable reputation as a session musician, and established his own artistic identity with the release of five of his own albums. He has recorded with many of the great names in popular music, such as Elton John, Marc Bolan, Scott Walker, Beck, Bjork, Sting, David Sylvian and many others. In recent years such recording activities have led to BJ playing on tour dates with The Verve, REM and Sting.

These incredible British talents now come together to play, in full one of the music world’s most lauded albums, Brian Eno’s 'Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks' for the good people of Camp Bestival in what is sure to be a completely unique and totally exhilarating experience.

Widely regarded as Brian Eno's best and most influential ambient album, 'Apollo' was written for Al Reinert's documentary on the Apollo space missions, For All Mankind. Music from the album also appeared in the films 28 Days Later, Traffic and Trainspotting. This show returns the music to its original conception, as a non-narrative counterpart to NASA footage from the Apollo programme: matching the mesmerizing beauty and tranquil mystery of the moon and Earth; the dizzying scale and humbling feat of engineering involved in taking people to the moon; and capturing the banality and the humour of the astronauts as they skitter about the moon's surface.

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