WE Love... Homelands will take place on Saturday, May 28, at Hampshire's breathtaking natural amphitheatre of The Bowl, on the Matterley Estate.

For 2005, the Mean Fiddler organisation and We Love... bring 17 hours of creative, cross-genre programming that reflects the way dance music culture is transforming.

Homelands in 2005 presents bands and DJs, singers and MCs, guitars and turntables - live and recorded - as well as house, rock, drum and bass, rap and electro, from 1pm until 6am.

We Love... and Mean Fiddler remixed the dance festival formula in 2003.

Today the track record speaks for itself - Homelands is the festival that broke the Scissor Sisters as a world-class live act. It was also the first dance festival to introduce a dedicated hip-hop arena, the first to programme rock bands alongside superstar DJs, as well as the first to prove there's a genetic link between Faithless and The Music, 2 Many DJs and Groove Armada, Roni Size and Miss Kittin.

This year, it is set to be even better. In Homelands' Live Arena alone, The Streets will ignite a set of neo-garage chartbusters, UK rap ruler Roots Manuva is certain to prove both "awfully deep" and seismically entertaining, while the as-yet-to-be-announced live bill will be guaranteed to shake Hampshire to its foundations.

The legends are also returning - Grandmaster Flash, 2 Many DJs and Felix Da Housecat all guest in Arena 1, while LTJ Bukem appears in the Movement Arena.

New electro internationalists Tiga, Tiefschwarz and Black Strobe expand the Homelands repertoire to the limit of the spectrum.

Meanwhile, old-skool heroes Grandmaster Melle Mel and Scorpio will prove how their seminal hip-hop smash The Message is as relevant today as it was in 1982.

Old favourite The Strongbow Rooms will be back with a line-up carefully crafted by Sunday Best Head Honcho Rob Da Bank.

Melvin Benn, MD of Mean Fiddler Music Group, said: "Homelands has gone from strength-to-strength and we are confident it is as fresh and innovative in its talent and execution as it was in the beginning.

"I am very excited about this year's line up and think that the live acts will appeal to more people than ever before."

Advance tickets, priced £56.50, are available from the hotline on 0870 060 3775.