[Closed] Festivals This Summer - Which ones are you attending?

Whatstandwell Festival tomorrow night - it rocks!!!!

Deershed!!!

http://www.deershedfestival.com/

Off to beatherder this weekend.. :O)

Latitude, assuming tickets arrive- three weeks to go, no sign yet 🙁

Edit: 2 weeks to go! come on viagogo, sort it out

I would haved been going to many but with a 9 month old baby in tow It's going to have to be a very different approach this year..

We'll be attending Beautiful Days down in deepest Devon.. the Levellers very own festival.. very clean and safe and family orientated with a host of fantastic bands but no chart topping pop acts to speak of.. James headlining too which will be ace for the SO.. The Wailers with Dreadzone and a host of other small acts for me..

my top tip.. In the wise and immortal words of Hunter S Thompson.. 'I'd hate to advocate drugs, alcohol or insanity... but they've always worked for me..'

Yay...another Latitudiner 🙂

three weeks to go

It's two isn't it? 😯

They're shocking at getting the tickets out on time...don't worry, they'll come (as long as you used a reputable ticket seller, that is).

I'd hate to advocate drugs, alcohol

Yeah, me too. Since giving up the tabs, even a joint might send me back into nicotine hell so I'm thinking Hash Cakes...anyone got any good recipes? Does one use the brown oxo-cube type stuff or the green stuff? (I'm not very drug literate 🙂 )

V, but only because it's just round the corner. Would have preferred Sonosphere, but dates don't work for us 😥

It's two isn't it?

Really want to see Florence live, had such a great time last year

Yep me too...just looked at photos of me during The Doves...fantastic set. Hope weather's a bit warmer this year. I'm bringing a wheelbarrow strapped to the roofrack this year - two trips last year damn near killed me 🙂

I'm bringing a wheelbarrow strapped to the roofrack this year

Really want to see Florence live

Are you referring to Florence and the Machine? If so then I fear that you are in for a bitter disappointment if her Glastonbury performance was anything to go by.

A self indulgent hag tunelessly caterwauling meaningless drivel accompanied by some music.

Yunki
Here here can't stand the droning bint

Lattitde for me too - first visit to a festival in 10 years! I'm not holding high hopes for florence live, recorded I quite like her though.

A self indulgent hag tunelessly caterwauling meaningless drivel accompanied by some music.

You should get a job writing for the NME.

I'd start buying it again then.

Mouth of the Tyne festival tomorrow, does that count?

Each to their own. I like her album. She does seem to be getting a bit over exposed at the moment- on stage with dizee, the XX, etc last weekend.
Belle and Sebastien will be interesting on sat night- can't see their fey indie mellowness coming over that well on a big stage.
The best thing about festivals is the surprise good act. I was blown away by the gossip last yr, having always considered beth ditto to be just a fat lass who shouts- she can really sing, and golden silvers were really good too.
My 9 yr old is especially looking forward to vampire weekend on sunday, I will probably have the pleasure of him on my shoulders for the whole set, same as last yr for mika. I've seen VW live before and wasn't impressed, hey ho!
But at least he has better taste than his older sister who prefers cheryl cole and alexandra burke!

Pearl Jam at Hyde Park Calling last week!
Saturday-only at Latitude in 2 weeks.

I'm hoping to get to Beautiful Days, but things ain't looking too bright at the moment.

Belle and Sebastien will be interesting on sat night- can't see their fey indie mellowness coming over that well on a big stage.

My worry too...I think I will devote Saturday night to exploring other stages, and the comedy/film tents.

Latitude is so ace with all the stuff going on in the woods. We're going with friends with triplets - so we can steal a child to get into family camping - warm running water, proper toilets.... 🙂

dizzee.. florence.. probably belle and sebastian too but I can't quite remember (not surprising really).. all mercury prize winners..

excuse me if I don't like my taste spoonfed to me by industry marketeers..

had anyone actually heard of flo or dizzee or b and s before the mercury marketing campaign started precisely one year before their win?

blue stripe tesco value music.. it's no wonder 'da youf' feel it necessary to get smashed out of their fluttering eyelids on plant food and white cider.. anything to make the tedius corruption slightly more palatable

all that aside... I was only critising florences glasto2010 appearance which was actually dire.. even my other half had to switch over and she loves pop..

Godiva festival in Coventry tomorrow, free entry, music includes Ash, Badly Drawn Boy, Cornershop, Senser, Bentley Rhythm Ace. For those of an eighties orientation todays line up at Godiva is The Christians, Martin Fry, Kid Creole and Hazel Oconnor. Also doing just Sunday at Sonisphere - Come on you Irons!!!

Having seen Glastonbury on TV seems to have developed in to middle class, middle aged corporate drivel with only Muse, Slash, Dizzee Rascal, Ray Davies and Rolf Harris the only acts worth seeing over the three days.

The Christians

Ah...memories...saw them live at a gig in the late eighties at Uni.

Kid Creole

😯 Wot, no coconuts?

nice rack though

seems to have developed in to middle class, middle aged corporate drivel

you know what... I've thought that for the last 15 years.. but looking again.. there's a lot of teenagers that are the product of middle aged.. middle class.. corporate drivel that will actually get close enough to touch something different and alternative and gut wrenchingly real and emotional when you read between the lines and look into the nooks and crannies of what they will be exposed to at Glastonbury..

I'm starting to think that it's found a useful purpose after all..

excuse me if I don't like my taste spoonfed to me by industry marketeers..

[s]Muse, Slash, Dizzee Rascal, Ray Davies and [/s]Rolf Harris the only act[s]s[/s] worth seeing over the three days

what a catalyst you turned out to be.. loaded the guns and then you run off home for your tea.. left me standing.. like a guilty schoolboy

(paul weller probably '77 ish too)

It's easy to qoute irrelevant jam lyrics

so it would seem 😐

sorry docrobster

Sonisphere's our next festival, did Download last month. \o/

Well I am going to a Festival with Live Music, Real Ale and Mountain Bikes!

Guess which one that is.

Guess which one that is.

Not a clue...I think it might be the Big Bike Bash is it? Which I heard was shite anyway...

🙂

[i]Which I heard was shite anyway...[/i]

That was just sour grapes from those who didn't make it. 😉

Check out some feedback from last year

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/big-bike-bash-if-youre-not-there

Hmmmm...

Very positive!

When is it again?

[url= http://www.BigBikeBash.co.uk ]August 21st/22nd[/url]

Once our kid is old enough to sensibly take with us (so not this year), we plan to go to this:

http://www.indietracks.co.uk/

What more could you want, indie music, trains and real ale!

Joe

What about music, real ale, bikes AND free viewing of the Bournemouth international Airshow?

We had the Red Arrows do a formation fly by at the start of prize giving last year.

Cambridge Folk Festival again for us. Great event. Would have gone to Glastonbury, but too slow getting tickets.

Yunki, I think you'll find that the Mercury awards go to artists who've been around for some time but who aren't so well known to a wider audience. Those who listen to 6Music on a regular basis, however, are likely to be very familiar with them. I had heard Flo being played by them quite some time ago, Bell and Sebastien had been around for years before being put forward for a Mercury. Hell, Elbow were a successful multi-album act before getting nominated, and there are still people I know who have never heard of them.

count zero that is utter guff..

Another vote for Beautiful Days. Sadly won't be making it this year (although it's the best line up for a few years)...

many happy memories though
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countzero... to recount.. I didn't come down in the last rain shower.. my rant wasn't a knee jerk reaction because tom jones and bryan adams weren't nominated..

florence and the machine won last year.. and for precisely one year before that they were on ITV every five mins advertising their album for 5.99 from tescos..
You may be correct.. [b]BBC[/b] radio 6 may well have been playing their songs even before that.. I'm really not so sure.. If people were really already very familiar with them before that I shall be pleasantly surprised..

but that does not explain belle and sebastians win of ten years previously.. exactly the same mysterious circumstances but without the existance of bbc radio 6.. and they can't have been around much before their sudden appearance on the scene unless they formed in junior infant school..

marketing nonsense to sell nonsense to people with no sense..

and yes.. [b]every[/b] year there are well known and loved bands [i]nominated[/i]

Lucky enough to have been backstage with Gang Of Four at Glasto last week - best mate plays bass with them. 😀

two thousand trees festival for me. Been the last two years, great bands, great atmoshpere and its only 10 mins away.

http://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/

possibly working at reading as well.

We're taking the kids to [url= http://www.ynotfestivals.co.uk/ ]Ynot[/url]. It's local and has a decent line up. Chilling out high up in the Peaks on a balmy summer night. Perfect!

For anyone with a young family to consider (or just looking for something a bit smaller and easier to get on with) I can recommend summer sundae weekender in leicester. We've been going the past few years, once when mrs was pregnant, last year when jnr was about 8 months and will be there this year with mrs pregnant again. Nice and chilled out, good acts, clean, family campsite seperate from the wild ones etc. Lots to like.

I'll be not recognising the muffinman at the Whatstandwell festival tomorrow night 🙂

and then the main event for us will be [url] http://www.indietracks.co.uk/ [/url] , trains and indiepop! we know how to festival 😉

Vintage Festival at Goodwood here.
[url= http://www.vintageatgoodwood.com/home.aspx ]Vintage Festival[/url]

Been to ATP Curated by PAVEMENT already.

Got Truck (Oxfordshire) and End of the Road (Dorset) still to come.

Really wanted to go to Benicassim, but my friends are all skint, married, old or some combo thereof.

I heard my favourite festival quote of all time at Latitude 2008:

'No India, that's daddy's Yakult!'

😆

Just remembered....am going to Field Day too, but that's just an all dayer so doesn't really count.

Reading again for me, would have liked to get to Glastonbury this year too though. Aargh, there's now 4 simultaneous headliners I want to see at Reading, what a mess.

(hey, I just noticed Ash are headlining one day of the T in the Park Futures stage, and Echo and the Bunnymen another. That doesn't seem quite right somehow...)

Went to Download last month. Going to T in the Park next week. May do Belladrum and will do Loopallu. I would be at Sonisphere if I could get away with it but SWMBO holding meat cleaver to my knackers. Seen heaps of live bands in the last 12 months and loving it.

Sonisphere was cool last year, great atmosphere and some nice ideas (running the second stage into the night after the main stage ended to take the pressure off the car parks and exits frinstance, clever, plus it meant Metallica ended up being the warmup act for festival closers Hundred Reasons Not going this year but it was just really nice last time, reminded me of festivals a decade ago basically.

http://www.priddyfolk.org/modx/

went to the hat fair in winchester last night, not a festival as such but good acts, fun, beer in the streets, cathedral grounds and parks, music in the evening with a splash of footy inbetween and no ticket so free.

aaprt from my train home was cancelled and had to pay £30 taxi! worth it though

'No India, that's daddy's Yakult!'

I'll be not recognising the muffinman at the Whatstandwell festival tomorrow night

Did you go then Boatman!?

We though Some Kinda Mushroom did a cracking set at the end.

There is only one festival - Bingley

James on Sat, Enemy on Sun

Bring it on, its only at bottom t'hill

Greenman in August for me. It's a great family friendly festival also in a great area for mountain biking.

[i]It's a great family friendly festival also in a great area for mountain biking[/i]

Like the BBB except the BBB has a beer festival too.

Camp Bestival for me and the tribe again this year, 3rd time and I think it would be easier telling the kids they wont be going on a 2 week summer holiday than telling them their 3 days in Bestival is cancelled!!!

A self indulgent hag tunelessly caterwauling meaningless drivel accompanied by some music.

I agree with this, she was rubbish! Crazy P were good though!

standon calling for me.
great chilled out little festival