Apple announced Friday the addition of five new bands to the London iTunes Festival 2011, which runs from July 1st through July 31st. The company has added Bruno Mars, Moby, Jimmy Eat World, The Naked and Famous, Neon Trees, and Nero. This leaves but eight nights of the festival unfilled, and we can expect more announcements as early as next week.
The iTunes Festival is an annual event Apple holds in London throughout the month of July, with a different band featured each night. The company has been slowly unveiling the lineup for the event, and several of the bands added today are being billed as support acts for other headliners.
The iTunes Festival line-up so far includes:
1 July: Paul Simon
3 July Manic Street Preachers
4 July: Linkin Park
5 July: Beady Eye
6 July: The Wanted
7 July: ADELE
8 July: Bruno Mars
10 July: Glasvegas
11 July: Foo Fighters
12: July: The Script
13 July: White Lies + The Naked and Famous + Alice Gold
14 July: Friendly Fires
15 July: Jessie J
16 July: Duran Duran
18 July: Rumer
21 July” Swedish House Mafia
23 July: Mogwai + Errors
24 July Noah & The Whale
25 July: Lang Lang
26 July: Magnetic Man
28 July: Chase and Status + Nero
31: July Moby
Tickets are given away by a lottery system. You can enter to win tickets for any particular night at the festival’s website — users with a UK iTunes account can also download the iTunes Festival app for iPhone and iPad (non UK customers can see the app by switching to the UK store within iTunes, but it requires an account to download).