REM headlines Isle of Wight festival

ISLE OF WIGHT, England, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- American band REM will headline the three-day Isle of Wight Festival that begins June 10, the BBC reported Wednesday.

REM's Peter Buck said the group is excited "to play on the same stage as Dylan, The Who and Hendrix have in the past. Will there be nude anarchists this time?" The American rock group will play Sunday, June 12.

This is just the fourth outing of the festival that was revived after 600,000 people descended on the British isle in 1970 to see Jimi Hendrix perform his penultimate concert. The chaos of that gathering prompted a hiatus in the Isle of Wight Festival until 2002.