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FESTIVALS 2008
Below is a list of some of the events coming up. It is by no means exhaustive, but is a good starter for ten, for the best listing you will need to track down a copy of festival eye which is getting bigger and better each year. If you know of anything worth adding to our list, please e-mail us, we will have to be selective though, so dont bother telling us about your carboot sale :) (click on festival name for link to official website)
If you spot this woman, do not approach without an armed escort and a wet suit The 2007 festival season was interesting, to say the least. We had some really hot weather, but we also had some of the worst summer flooding the UK has seen for decades. As a result some festivals proved to be a little bit ‘challenging’. On top of that the forces of law and order forced some festivals to go for slightly over the top security to ‘target harden’ them against terrorist attack! What will they think of next?
For the last year or so we have had some really cool grass roots festivals sprouting up, which has been great news for festival goers, we are now presented with so many festivals happening it is physically impossible to attend them all without getting involved in multiple cloning. This is not so great news for festival organisers though, with there now being so much competition that some festivals have been struggling financially.
The challenges listed above, and others, have resulted in a few casualties this year; Eastern Haze, a festival with tremendous potential will not be happening again; Ashton Court has closed the gates for the last time after 35 years; The Big Green gathering will not be big this year, in fact it will be non-existent, mainly due to the ‘target hardening’ nonsense we mentioned above. Amazingly after several years of selling 150,000 tickets within a few hours, even Glastonbury (PLC) is struggling to sell tickets for this year’s event.
Some festivals are surviving though and some have sold out already. There are also a few new events this season, and looking at the calendar there are events just about everywhere in the UK, so there is no excuse for anyone to not find themselves stood in a filed soaking up the music at least once this year. Just make sure you take your wellies and your factor 15 sun cream and expect the unexpected. Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather, merely inappropriate clothing.
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Getting down with the groove @ Endorse It
| 17th May FA CUP FINAL WEMBLEY Featuring.. CARDIFF CITY FC! |
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24/25/26 May WELSH CIDER AND PERRY FESTIVAL Raglan. All the cider you can drink, plus live music from Tatsyrup and camping for those to munted to get home.
23/24/25 May OFF THE TRACKS: Donnington: First of two festivals this summer in the grounds of a hotel just off the tracks of Donnington
23/24/25 May GLASTONBUDGET: Leicester. Lots of up and coming bands together with a stage just for tribute bands
23/24/25 May STRUMMERCAMP: Manchester: Joe Strummers mates in the hood
NO FULL PONTY THIS YEAR: EXPECT THEM BACK NEXT YEAR!
26 May KINGSTON GREEN FAIR: Kingston upon Thames: One day green community event
29May to 1st June SUNRISE: Somerset. looking set to be a regular on the circuit after.
30 May to 1st June WYCHWOOD: Cheltenham: low key but high quality event on the race course
31 May 1 June BRISTOL VEGAN FAYRE: Bristol meat free event with laods of reggae from the likes of Dreadzone and Misty In Roots... a snip at £12
Andy (Omnia Opera) @ Eastern Haze 
"Mum! I found your skins" Workhouse Festival
7 June STRAWBERRY FAIR; Cambridge. still going strong
6/7 June MUSIC MATTERS: Hereford Rugby Club: Hawkwind and Alex Paterson
6/7 June ROCKNESS: Loch Ness: Fat Boy Slim, Underworld and that sort of thing
6/7/8 june COASTLINE BLUE GRASS FESTIVAL: Llandudno bluegrass in north wales
13/14/15 June DOWNLOAD: Donnington: Noisy mutha, held on the site of Donnington racecourse, take ya ear plugs and sleep with one eye open
13/14/15 June LLAMA: Devon: Community arts and music thing
13/14/15 June ISLE OF WIGHT Isle of Wight: Jimmi is unlikely to turn up, but the Sex Pistols will be SOLD OUT
20/21 June STONEHENGE SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS: Stonehenge (maybe?)
20/21/22 June GOLD COAST OCEAN FEST Croyde Bay, Devon. Donovan and Marin Harley play at one of the most beautiful costal villages in the UK
20/21/22 June ALCESTER FOLK FESTIVAL Near Redditch: includes,celt folk punksters,the barrel o' baddies
27/28/29 June GLASTONBURY MEGAFEST: Pilton: Mmmmm... has the bubble finally burst? After several years of selling out faster than the speed of amphetamine, still tickets left as we type.
21st Century dad .. Aberdare style @ Workhouse 
Don, from the The Don Bradmans, in the Triban tent @ Big Green Gathering 
"Follow the light!" Endorse it in Dorset
4/5/6 July WORKHOUSE: North Wales: Stay away, we don’t want your sort spoiling this awesome little event
3/4/5/6 July ROSKILDE Denmark: Europes answer to Glastonbury
4/5/6 July BEAT HERDER:Ribble Valley, Lancashire: "Northern folk at thier best", or so the Granarchist tells us!
4/5/6 July BLISSFIELDS: Hampshire: in a field full of bliss we assume, don’t know much about it.
5/6 July CORNBURY: Oxfordshire: Paul Simon, Crowded House, 10CC …. Wipe your feet on the way in
4/5/6 July GUILFEST: Guilford: Festival for Radio 2 listeners who do not like campfires and late night music, but do like proper bogs.
5/5/6 July ZOO8: Port Lynpe Animal Park, Kent: 20,000 capacity gig with 8 stages of Reading(ish) style line up for £99
11/12/13 July T IN THE PARK Scotland: Big corporate thing north of the border
11/12/13 July OXEGEN: Ireland: Probably the biggest festi in the emerald isle
11/12/13 July SMALL NATIONS: Mid Wales: Mostly local stuff with one or two surprises to make it worth travelling
11/12/13 July LOUNGE ON THE FARM: Canterbury: Reasonably priced little do with Wild Billy Childish and Midfield General
11/12 July CHAGSTOCK: Dartmoor: Family event with Show of Hands and the Hothouse Flowers
16/17/18/19/20 July LARMER TREE FESTIVAL: Dorset: Well run civilised little folky/world music event in the Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset every July. Excellent facilities, and usually has a few good names on the bill. Ideal festival for people who do not like festivals. ALWAYS sells out and always has pronghorn close on the Sunday night.
17/18/19/20 july ABERTILLERY BLUES FESTIVAL Abertillery... Robert Cray in the valleys!
We would have wet our pants at the thoght of this 20 years ago!
18/19/20 July SONIC WORLD: Derbyshire: Sounds from other worlds, including Omnia Opera
18/19/20 July NOZSTOCK: Herefordshire: 3,000 capacity event near the home of Strongbow witha diverse line up and a cheap price.
18/19/20 July CAMP BESTIVAL: Dorset: Cuck Berry and Suzanne Vega play in a Dorset castle!
20/21 July WICKERMAN: Scotland: counter culture vibe of festivals from a bygone era, apparently... Alabama 3 and Dodgy, that sort of thing
24/25/26/27 July TROWBRIDGE VILLAGE PUMP; Trowbridge: A beer festival with some cracking music
18/19/20 July GLADE FESTIVAL the dudes that run the glade field in Glastonbury
SHEEP MUSIC FESTIVAL: Mid Wales: WILL BE BACK IN 2009
25/26/27/28 July HAWKFEST: Devon: Spaced out man, surprisingly cool line up, including Tarantism and Omnia Opera.
24/25/26/27 July SECRET GARDEN: Huntingdon: shhhh… it’s a secret! if the gig is as good as the websiote it will be very good
25/25/26/27 July ROCK AND BLUES CUSTOM SHOW: Derbyshire: 25th Anniversary ...Get your motors running
26/27 July SQUARE FESTIVAL Borth,
nr Aberystwyth Small and reasonably priced festie overlooking Cardigan Bay... includes back beating stage
25/26 July GLOBAL GATHERING: Warwick: Glow sticks, whistles, bandanas and prancing about doing the ‘big box little box’ thing.
25/26/27 July WOMAD: Wiltshire: World Of Music And Dance, too cool for one country
C3PO hanging out @ Endorse It
Robo Booty @ Endorse it
Radical Dance Faction / Millitary Surplus @ Eastern Haze
1/2/3/4 August SHAMANIA: Lancashire: Shamanic tribal celebration with mostly DJs and live dance stuff
2/3/4/5 August WICKHAM: Hampshire: The Levellers, Saw Doctors, Capercellie....and all that sort of thing
1/2/3 August CELTIC BLUE ROCK: West Wales: you will be surprised how cool West Wales is these days!
BIG GREEN GATHERING: Somerset; Taking a year off, back in 2009
1/2/3 August BIG WEEKEND: Cardiff: Fun fair, lots of crap music, but always at least one band worth seeing every day… free!!
1/2/3 August BIG CHILL: Eastnor: Big rip off
7/8/9/10 August BULLDOG BASH: Stratford upon Avon: Biker Heaven with Orange Goblin, Larry Miller and lots of Hells Angels
8/9/10 August ENDORSE IT IN DORSET: Dorset: probably the best festival in Dorset. Old skool and wicked, a must do
8/9/10 August SUMMER SUNDAE: Leicester: Indie thing
8/9/10 August BRECON JAZZ: Brecon: A jazz festival in Brecon!
8/9 August TARTAN HEART: Scotland; mostly celtic and afro celt type stuff, including Baka Beyond
15/16/17 August BLOODSTOCK: Burton on Trent: Metal bloody metal, for fans of tinitus and devil worship
17/18/19 August GREEN MAN GATHERING: Brecon: cool classy and always sells out
16/17 August V FESTIVAL: Chelmsford: more corporate nonsense from the man that brought you tubular bells and virgin cola
15/16/17 August BEAUTIFUL DAYS: Devon: the Levellers and friends go back to their roots
21/22/23/24/25 August SHAMBALA: Plymouth: one of the coolest events on the circuit.
22/23/24 August SOLFEST: Cumbria: One of these days we are gonna make the effort to drive that far north
22/23/24 August CARLING WEEKEND: Reading and Leeds: Mean Fi**ler commercial nonsense for kids to line Vince Powers' pocket
23/24 August CREAMFIELDS; Daresubry: big name line up for rave by organisers who have never been to a rave
29/30/31 August RECYDRATE THE WEST: Sommerset. Cider festival with Inner Terrestrials,
Babyhead, Tragick Roundabout, Bad manners and many more
29/30/31 August OFF THE TRACKS (AGAIN) Donnington: probably the best facilities of any festival on the circuit
The revolutionary vanguard at the Big Green Gathering 
Chris Bowsher Joins P.A.I.N. @ Eastern Haze. The first time he has been on stage with Phil and Dan since the 'old days' of RDF 
Skanival ... beware of the punks
6/7/8 September BESTIVAL: Isle of Wight: dont get too excited... its sold out already
12/13/14 September END OF THE ROAD Dorset: It's in the Larmer Tree grdens, so we imagine it will be a chilled out way to end your season
19/20/21 September KNOCKENGORROUGH: Scotland: a sort of world dubby ceildih type north of the border in September? Those Arran jumpers will come in handy! thing
SKANIVAL???? NOT ANNOUNCED YET, PLEASE LET THERE BE ONE!!!!
All pix taken by Clint Iguana
Crowzone / 2000 dirty squatters play a punks breakfast on the 'horse drawn' stage