THAT favourite end-of-summer retreat of Oxfordshire music lovers, Bestival, has announced another winning addition to its best ever line-up.

The Isle of Wight-based festival has only gone and booked Mercury Prize winners Elbow.

In what will be a very special live headline appearance, Elbow will be closing the Bestival Main Stage on Sunday evening with their own special blend of spine-tingling atmospheric rock.

Mixing melancholy and melodrama to create an entrancing emotional rollercoaster ride of rugged riffs and lyrical wit, Elbow are a classic festival band.

Orgabnisers have also announced that Cheshire band Doves will be gracing its main stage - fresh from the release of their latest album.

"It’s all really hotting up down in Bestival’s top-secret HQ now!" says festival curator Rob Da Bank.

"Spring has sprung and the countdown to our autumnal extravaganza is truly afoot with team Bestival deeply embroiled in collecting together the awe-inspiring acts and electrifying entertainment that goes to make up the sizzling spectacular that is Bestival 2009."

"So, amidst the madness, we are especially elated to be able to announce that our incredible Sunday night headliner will be this year’s Mercury Music Prize, Brit Award and NME Award winners Elbow!"

He added: "It’s been a long road to landing our Sunday night headliners, much like the 18 year road our Sunday headliners have travelled ‘til they finally got the exposure they deserve.

"I’m well pleased that Elbow will be bringing things to a majestic grand finale on the Sunday of Bestival and can’t think of a more suitable act after their mammoth year. All that aside they just make brilliant, honest music that judging by the biggest singalong I saw at Glastonbury last year will go down a storm on the Isle of Wight.

"They are the ultimate Sunday night Bestival showstoppers. It’s going to be immense and you know that “one day like this a year’d see you right is going to be massive!"

Commenting on the addition of Doves, he said: "Doves are all signed up to give the Bestival crowd a spellbinding treat. With their much-anticipated fourth long player ‘Kingdom of Rust’ just about to drop, the trio are in a rich vein of form, effortlessly conjuring epically cinematic sounds with their typically no-nonsense style. With their recent triumphant comeback gigs getting everyone excited about the new material, we can’t wait for them to bathe us in their sonorous sounds." * The festival takes place at Robin Hill Country Park from the 11th-13th September.

Acts booked to play include: 65 Days Of Static/ 2020 Sound System / Alessi’s Ark /Altern8 / Baddies / Bastila / Bat For Lashes / Bjorn Again / Blindfold / Bloco Electro / Blue Roses / Casio Kids / Chase & Status / Chew Lips / Coopers Rage / Cordelier Club / Crazy P / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Delphic / Dent May / Dinosaur Pile Up / Diplo Presents Mad Decent Soundsystem – Boy 8 Bit, Buraka Som Sistema, Major Lazer, Rusko / Doves / Dub Pistols / Eat Static / Ebony Bones / Efterklang / Elbow / Esser / Fight Like Apes / Filthy Dukes / Fleet Foxes / Florence & The Machine / Frankmusik / Free Peace / Friendly Fires / Frightened Rabbit / Fujiya & Miyagi / Future Sound Of London / George Pringle / Golden Silvers / Goldie Lookin’ Chain / Goodbye Stereo / Heartbreak / Hockey / Introducing / It Hugs Back / Jack Penate / James Yuill / Joe Gideon & Shark / Just Jack / Kid Carpet / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / Klaxons / Kraftwerk / La Roux / Lily Allen / Little Boots / Lizzy Parks / Lucky Elephant / Maps / Man Like Me / Massive Attack / Metronomy / MGMT / Michael Nyman / Micachu & The Shapes / Music From The Penguin Café / Napoleon 111rd / Orkestra Del Sol / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Passion Pit / Peggy Sue / Pivot / Pole / Polly Scattergood / Rox / Seasick Steve / Soulwax / Speech Debelle / Sportsday Megaphone / Squarepusher / The Beat / The Big Pink / The Cuban Brothers / The Dawn Chorus / The Duloks / The Ghost / The Horrors / The Pretty Things / The Shutes / They Came From The Stars I Saw Them / Tinchy Stryder / VV Brown / Wave Machines / Workhouse / Xo-Man