Omar Souleyman set for debut Safe as Milk festival

More names are yet to be announced for Safe as Milk's inaugural outing, taking place over three days in April 2017. Dabke/dance artist Souleyman's most recent album, last year's Bahdeni Nami, was produced by Four Tet and released to widespread critical acclaim, while British folk legend Collins is set to release her first studio album since 1978's For as Many as Will (a collaboration with sister Dolly Collins) through Lawrence Bell's Domino Records in November. 

Created by the team behind Gateshead's TUSK festival, and named after the debut album by Captain Beefheart, the festival takes place in Prestatyn, North Wales, with co-founder Lee Etherington promising, "It's going to be the best weekend you've ever had at a festival.”

With its focus firmly on leftfield music, the bill also includes San Francisco art terrorists The Residents, Japan's ever-evolving experimentalists OOIOO (led by Yoshimi P-We of Boredoms) and This is Not This Heat (the live reincarnation of cult futurist rockers This Heat).

Swedish punks Brainbombs, Detroit electronica legends Dopplereffekt, Egyptian livewires Islam Chipsy & EEK, environmental sound artist Hieroglyphic Being, US mathletes Horse Lords, industrial noise pioneers Nurse With Wound and ambient singer-songwriter Liz Harris, aka Grouper flesh out the line-up, with a variety of food, films, exhibitions, beer,s workshops, records and poster stalls, and guest DJs all currently in the pipeline, plus more acts to be announced.

The festival takes place between 21-23 April 2017. Tickets will be available from the Safe as Milk Festival website from 31 October.