From 1993 leading "Britpop" indie bands featured on Saturday evenings including Oasis, The Verve, Bluetones, Pulp, Pop Will Eat Itself, Sleeper, Manic Street Preachers, Blur, and Catatonia.
The Heineken events also featured long-established bands and singers including The Stranglers, Jools Holland, The Pogues, Saw Doctors, Tom Robinson Band, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Bonnie Tyler, Richard Thompson, Labi Siffre, Siouxsie + The Banshees, Squeeze, Carmel, The Levellers, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Wilko Johnson, Tony Joe White, Aswad, Bhundu Boys, Jamiroquai, Kirsty MacColl, Boy George, Mike + The Mechanics.
Regular house-bands included Dr Feelgood, Alias Ron Kavana, The Tansads (now Merry Hell), Oysterband, Seven Little Sisters and Chumbawamba.
Bookers included Fiona Glyn-Jones (later Bella Union record label) and in season one Stuart Griffiths and Carrie Wagner.
Event managers were Linda Harley, Miles Beacroft, Adam Ali, Gabby Taranowski, Charlie Connelly (now an author) and Tim Haines.