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FESTIVALS 2010
Below is a list of some of the events coming up this festival season. 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)
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Recydrate the West 2008
15/16/17 May BEARDED THEORY: Derbyshire. Old school festy with one of the best line ups of the year, including AOS3, Senser, King Blues, Inner Terrestrials, Tarantism, pronghorn, Back To The Planet and Kilnaboy
27/28/29/30 May Knockengorroch World Ceillidh Galloway, Scotland: A cedillidh (just about), with Eat Static and The Beat
28th to 31stMay WELSH CIDER AND PERRY FESTIVAL Raglan. All the cider you can drink, plus live music and camping for those to munted to get home.
28/29/30 May OFF THE TRACKS: Donnington: First of two festivals this summer in the grounds of a hotel just off the tracks of Donnington
28/29/30 May GLASTONBUDGET: Leicester.The biggest names in rock and roll... or at least tributes to them
28/29/30 May STRUMMERCAMP: Manchester: Joe Strummers mates in the hood (Manchester)
30/31 May BRISTOL VEGAN FAYRE: Bristol grub and dub in Bristol Docks... a snip at £10
27th May to 6th June HAY BOOK FESTIVAL, Hay on Wye: A festival with books and talks by book type people, with a bit of music chucked in, as Bill Clinton put it "The Woodstock of the Mind". Events individually ticketed. You really need to plan your visit, if you just turn up you will may well find the event you want to go to sold out
Never rely on there being bog roll in the toilets, take your own!
Wood carving @ Celtic Blue Rock 2008
All the cumforts of home at Recydrate the West
3rd to 6th June SUNRISE: Somerset. 4 days and 8 stages of funky psychedelic dance grooves.
4/5/6 June WYCHWOOD: Cheltenham: low key but high quality event on the race course
CANCELLED STRAWBERRY FAIR; Cambridge. One of the oldest and best, sadly not happening this year due to 'the man'. hopefully back nest year
4/5/6 June COASTLINE BLUE GRASS FESTIVAL: Llandudno bluegrass in north wales
11/12/13 June ROCKNESS: Loch Ness (Monsters of rock??): Fatboy Slim and that sort of thing.
12/13/14 June DOWNLOAD: Donnington: Noisy mutha with AC/DC and Rage Against the Christmas Number One, held on the site of Donnington racecourse, take ya ear plugs and sleep with one eye open
11/12/13 June LLAMA: Devon: Community arts and music thing. With Baybhead and Dr Butler's Hatstand Medicine Band
13/14/15 June ISLE OF WIGHT Isle of Wight: Jimmi is unlikely to turn up, but JayZ and Spandau Balet will
20/21 June STONEHENGE SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS: Stonehenge (maybe?)
17/18/ 19 June SONAR: Barcelona, Spain described officially as a festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. Music is by far the main aspect of the festival. Chemical brothers and Dizzeee Rascaaaaal!
18/19/20 June SONIC ROCK SOLSTICE: Builth Wells: Space Rock extraveganzaaa in Mid Wales featuring Hawklords and Omnia Opera
18/19/20 June GOLD COAST OCEAN FEST Croyde Bay, Devon. Surf, film and music at one of the most beautiful costal villages in the UK
18/19/20 June ALCESTER FOLK FESTIVAL Near Redditch: Folk, aran jumers and real ale
23 TO 27 June GLASTONBURY MEGAFEST: Pilton: Benefit gig for Avon and Sommerset Police; The Wimbledon of the festival circuit. Not as good as it used to be.. OFFICAL! If you aint got a ticket, dont bother, cos it is sold out and these days they have security to rival the G8 summits.
Even hardcore anarchists can get into a summery mood at festivals - Jay from Inner Terrestrials @ Boomtown 2009
Getting ready to be spaced out @ Sheep Music 2009
Tofu Love Frogs playing in the main ditch at Frogstock 2009
1/2/3/4 July ROSKILDE Denmark: Europes answer to Glastonbury
2/3/4 July BEAT HERDER: Ribble Valley, Lancashire: "Northern folk at thier best", or so the Granarchist tells us! With Andy C and the Easy Star All Stars
2/3/4 July BLISSFIELDS: Hampshire: in a field full of bliss we assume, don’t know much about it.
3/4 July CORNBURY: Oxfordshire: David Grey, Squeeze and hot air ballons! …. Wipe your feet on the way in
8 to 11 July EXIT Serbia Award winning annual summer festival in the Petrovaradin Fortress of Novi Sad. Originally run by the students union, several NGOs have helped out in recent years and has a social consience, but there have been several take over bids in recent years
9/10/11 July WORKHOUSE: Mid Wales: This year's event is going to be free, but very very small
9/10/11 July T IN THE PARK Scotland: Big corporate thing north of the border
9/10/11 July OXEGEN: Ireland: Probably the biggest festi in the emerald isle
9/10/11 SMALL NATIONS: Mid Wales: Mostly local stuff with one or two surprises to make it worth travelling for this 1500 capacity gig
9/10 July LOUNGE ON THE FARM: Canterbury: Reasonably priced little do with Toots and The Maytals
9/10/11 July NOZSTOCK: Herefordshire: Cracking 3,000 capacity event near the home of Strongbow with a diverse line up and a cheap price.
15 to 18 July 2010 BENICASSIM Spain. Big names and big sun .. take your suncream
16/17/18 July GUILFEST: Guilford: Festival for Radio 2 listeners who do not like campfires and late night music, but do like proper bogs. Line up full of bands that you thought had split years ago (and in most cases should have)
16/17 July CHAGSTOCK: Dartmoor: Family event with The Hoosiers and The Oysterband
14 to 18 July LARMER TREE FESTIVAL: Dorset: Well run civilised little folky/world music event in the Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset every July. Excellent facilities, ideal festival for people who do not like festivals. ALWAYS sells out and always has pronghorn close on the Sunday night. This year has Toots and the Maytals and Shooglenifty
23/24 July WICKERMAN: Scotland: counter culture vibe of festivals from a bygone era, apparently... Undertones and Ocean Colour Scene
22 to 25 July TROWBRIDGE VILLAGE PUMP; Trowbridge: A beer festival with some music, including Dreadzone and Kid Creole and the Coconuts
15 to 18 July GLADE FESTIVAL the dudes that run the Glade field in Glastonbury, techno heaven
16 to 19 JulyLATITUDE, Sufolk: Music, comedy, books, cinema, theatre and ermm.. sold out
22/23/24/25 July SECRET GARDEN: Huntingdon: shhhh… it’s a secret! if the gig is as good as the website it will be very good
23/24/25 July WOMAD: Wiltshire: World Of Music And Dance, too cool for one country
28/29/30 July THE TRIP: Anglesey. New family friendly festival out on the cletic fringes. Mostly local bands
30/31 July GLOBAL GATHERING: Warwick: Glow sticks, whistles, bandanas and prancing about doing the ‘big box little box’ thing.
29 July to 1 August ROCK AND BLUES CUSTOM SHOW: Derbyshire: Get your motors running (but dont take your own beer)
30/31 July 1 August CAMP BESTIVAL: Dorset: Madness, Funkadelic and Bill Drumond play in a Dorset castle!
C3PO hanging out @ Endorse It
Robo Booty @ Endorse it
Boom Town Fair 2009
30 July to 1 August BIG WEEKEND: Cardiff: Fun fair, lots of crap music, but always at least one band worth seeing every day… free!!
5 to 8 August WICKHAM: Hampshire: M.O.R. thing by the sea with the Levellers, Peatbog Faeiries and Shooglenifty
6/7/8 August CELTIC BLUE ROCK: West Wales: you will be surprised how cool West Wales is these days! For £40 you get The beat, Dreadzone, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Goldie Lookin Chain and much more.
5/6/7/8 August BIG CHILL: Eastnor: Big fucking rip off with Massive Attack
6/7/8 August ENDORSE IT IN DORSET: Dorset: probably the best festival in Dorset. Old skool and wicked with Eat Static, The Damned, Subhumans, Inner Terrestrials and a reformed Credit To The Nation
6/7 August TARTAN HEART: Scotland, Feeder The Levellers and the Wailers distrub the peace in the highlands
6/7/8 August BRECON JAZZ: Brecon. Its in Brecon (mid Wales) and its got jazz... nice!
6/7/8 August HEVY FEST Kent. Its a fest, and its hevy - but not THAT heavy actually, Gallows, Glassjaw and the amazing King Blues
6 to 30 August, EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL Edinburgh . World’s largest arts festival, with something for everyone: theatre, comedy, music, dance, musicals, opera, children’s shows, exhibitions and much more.
12 to 15 August BULLDOG BASH: Stratford upon Avon: Biker Heaven the Hampsters, The Groundhogs and lots of Hells Angels
13/14/15 August BOOMTOWN FAIR: Secret location near Bristol (which this year is actually Milton Keynes!?) : Truly Awesome event going from strength to strength each year, Mad professor, Inner Terrestrials, Pronghorn, Sicknote, Don Bradmans and Toots and the Maytals
13/14/15 August SUMMER SUNDAE: Leicester: Indie thing with Seasick Steve and Turin Brakes
13/14/15 August BLOODSTOCK: Burton on Trent: Metal bloody metal, for fans of tinitus and necrophilia featuring Canibal Corpse
13/14/15 August CROISANT NEUF SUMMER PARTY Usk, Family friendly green festival with the Magic Numbers, Cakehole Presley and Max Pashm
20/21/22 August GREEN MAN GATHERING: Brecon: cool and classy, if slightly overpriced. Always sells out. Doves, Billy Bragg, Flaming Lips, Beirut
20/21 August LOWLANDS: Holland. 3 days festival with music, street theatre, movies tents, Comedy Stages, visual arts, literature arenas, multimedia Stages and more. Snow Patrol, Placebo, blink-182, Massive Attack, Air and Queens of the Stone Age
21/22 August V FESTIVAL: Chelmsford: more corporate nonsense from the man that brought you tubular bells and virgin cola
20/21/22 August BEAUTIFUL DAYS: Devon: the Levellers and friends go back to their roots
27 to 30 August SHAMBALA: Secret location in the Midlands : one of the coolest events on the circuit.
27/28/29 August SOLFEST: Cumbria: One of these days we are gonna make the effort to drive that far north. This year included Bakabeyond and Alabama 3
28/29/30 August CARLING WEEKEND: Reading and Leeds: Mean Fi**ler commercial nonsense for kids to line Vince Powers' pocket. Guns 'n Roses for fucks sake!
28/29 August CREAMFIELDS; Daresubry: big name line up for rave by organisers who have probably never been to a rave
The lounge bar, Nozstock 2009
3/4 September ONBOARD THE CRAFT FESTIVAL: Derbyshire: More spaced outness from the heads that brought us Sonic Rock Solstice
3/4/5 September OFF THE TRACKS (AGAIN) Donnington: probably the best facilities of any festival on the circuit
4/5 September SONIC WORLD FESTIVAL: Derbyshire: Space rock psychedelic thang with Harvey Bainbridge and Sendelica. A snip at £30
10/11/12 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
9 TO 12 September BESTIVAL: Isle of Wight: big list of names, including Roxy Music and The Prodge
11/12/13 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
17/18/19 September ALCHEMY: Linconshire: Interesting looking event with Eat Static, Space Ritual and Imperial Leather
All pix taken by Clint Iguana