Anna Meredith & Actress join Safe as Milk festival

Electronic enigma Actress, experimental pop composer Anna Meredith and hugely influential Ghanaian dance artist Ata Kak are among the names newly added to the bill for Safe as Milk festival, which is quickly shaping up to be one of the most interesting programmes of contemporary music we've seen in the UK for quite a while. 

Also announced are Neu!/Harmonia founder Michael Rother, 'electronic music's answer to Basquiat' Gaika, and the Blackest Ever Black label's Carla dal Forno. Chrome, Circle, Mark Ernestus Ndagga, Moor Mother, Princes Nokia and Ulver complete the latest wave of announcements. 

Created by the team behind Gateshead's TUSK festival and named after the debut album by Captain Beefheart, Safe as Milk takes place over three days in Prestatyn, North Wales, 21-23 April 2017. 

Already on the bill are Dabke/dance artist Omar Souleyman, British folk luminary Shirley Collins, Japan's ever-evolving experimentalists OOIOO, San Francisco legends The Residents and This is Not This Heat (the live reincarnation of cult futurist rockers This Heat). 

Swedish punks Brainbombs, Detroit electronica group 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 Grouper flesh out the line-up, with a variety of food, films, exhibitions, workshops, record stalls and guest DJs all in the pipeline. 

Tickets are available from the Safe as Milk Festival website.