Festival Season 2006 -- some dates and details!

[William of Walworth]

Well, once again it's that depressing time of year when summer still seems a very long way off, so this Festographer's sanity-and sunshine-seeking thoughts are naturally turning once again towards establishing a Festival Calendar for the coming summer -- 2006!

The following list is completely selective, with a big bias against including any ultra-corporate, ultra-mainstream events like the Carling Crap Label Weekender (aka 'Reading') and the Richard Branson's Profitable Beard Festival (aka 'V').

The list is also far from exhaustive. And for 2006, is largely based on 2005's list, with websites rechecked for new dates where possible. BIG THANKS to han/the mods for archiving the 2005 thread and saving me quite as much work as in January 2005 -- lots of editng done though!

But feel free to add more events to this thread as you think of them/hear about them, but try to do what I do and include DATES (most important) and if you know it a location as well, and a link to any website.

So here are a few dates to be pencilled (perhaps!!) into your summer diaries!
Some of the dates are so far provisional for 2006 -- 2006 versions of the 2005 dates.

Festival Season 2006 Calendar!

Friday 17 to Monday 20 March 2006
Dragon Festival, near Orgiva, Southern Spain.
FREE FESTIVAL originally organised by exiled British New Age Travellers and ex-Travellers and other alternative types, working with Spanish festival enthusiasts. Now in it's tenth year, and officially licenced (in earlier years it wasn't)
Dragon website

Monday 27 March to Sunday 2 April 2006
Soulclipse Festival, Turkey
Soulclipse website
Timed to coincide with the Total Solar Eclipse happening inthe region at that time.
Rather Trancey!

Wednesday 26 to Sunday 30 April
Drop Beats Not Bombs, the Custard Factory, Birmingham
DBNB website
Recommended by Brum based Urbanites!


Saturday 29 April and Sunday 30 April 2006 Old and now changed dates!!
(Early May Bank Holiday weekend)
Newcastle Green Fair
This event, for reasons beyond Freespirit's control, has now been **MOVED** to Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 June -- see below

Friday 19 to Sunday 21 May 2006
Rocket Festival, Andalucia, Southern Spain
Rocket Festival website

Friday 19 to Sunday 21 May 2006
Knockengorroch Festival, Spring (Ceilidh Gall Gallowa')
Galloway, SW Scotland
Knockengorroch Festival website
Described on the website as a 'World Ceilidh Festival' -- and for this we may be going to our first ever Festival in Scotland ...

They have lots of folk-influence stuff, and lots of weird stuff during the day. Regulars include the Weird Attractors and the Peatbog Faeries. they had Desmond Dekker last year. They usually have one biggish name. But loads and loads of different stuff you won't see anywhere else. Lots of cool Scottish stuff. A dance tent where my mate Frogpocket John usually plays too.....
Also has Sams Sauna - the only place to be to keep warm at night... mmmm... nekkid hippies
And a cinema teepee and a story-telling longhouse and and and.... well, you just have to go really. lots for kids too.
Sunday night always ends with a speech from the organiser and then the piper plays.... and then he plays and plays and people drum and sing and go mental dancing..... sounds odd and rubbish but its just the most amazing atmosphere.
Oh, and the bar sells lovely organic beer and cider and heather ale. Yum

Friday 26th to Sunday 28th May 2006
Off The Tracks, Spring Festival, Isley Walton (near Donnington racetrack), Derbyshire.
Off The Tracks website
Website : "TWO STAGES ~ 45 REAL ALES ~ GOOD FOOD ~ ACOUSTIC SESSIONS ~ STALLS ~ EXCELLENT CAMPING FACILITIES & SHOWERS ~ FAMILY FRIENDLY ~ ATMOSPHERIC SURROUNDINGS ~ PLUS MUCH MORE...."

Saturday 27 to Sunday 28 May 2006
Strummercamp, Burnage, Manchester
Strummercampsite
Something of a Joe and Clash theme going on ...


Monday 29 May 2006 (Late May Bank Holiday)
Kingston Green Fair, Canbury Gardens, Kingston on Thames.
About £5= to get in.
Kingston Green Fair website
An excellent fluffy hippy event! Lovely pub on the riverside, right in the middle of the site. The Kingston Green Fair website appears to confirm that it's happening in 2006, and the date.

Dates now confirmed : Eednesday 31st May to Wednesday 7th June 2006
Unsound Beach Party, Metaponto, Southern Italy
Unsound website
As anticipated by many Urbanites! And raved about by many in 2005
Urbanite discussion on the Music Forum already started for 2006 ...

Saturday 3 June 2006
Strawberry Fair, Midsummer Common, Cambridge, FREE! -- Large Urban contingent expected, of those who aren't in Italy anyway!
Strawberry Fair website
The original and the BEST! one day free festival.
Stig and I will be there Friday to Sunday as usual.
Sadly meaning that we will now have to MISS the next listed event ...

Rearranged Dates for this one
(was originally early-May Bank Holiday weekend) :
Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 June 2006
Newcastle Community Green Festival
Saturday 3 June 2006 -- Family Day-- apparantly no alcohol.
Sunday 4 June 2006 -- Everyone day! Loads of good beer.
Leazes Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne
(behind St James Park football ground)
Free entry
Newcastle Green Festival website
Website still showing 2005 dates and details

Newcastle Green Festival ... FYI we get something like
10,000 people over 2 days, and will be having 8 music stages this year, all free and in a lovely city centre park. Oh yeah, and lots of green stuff, very kid friendly etc. etc.

And with more news :

"looks like we're scaling down slightly on the music stages this year as we're going 100% alt tech, but still 3 proper stages, 2 smaller stages and outdoor performance space (loads of samba / steel band groups). Last years festival had 12,000 people over the 2 days so it really is a proper festival, loads of great north. Loads of great North East bands playing all different styles, + proper techno tent on the sunday. Loads of kids activities on both days, climbing wall, rides, trampolenes, bouncy castle, arts area, workshops in traditional crafts, healing area, 50+ stalls, organic veggie cafes, fireshow,
real ale bars run by award winning Wylam Brewery (including specially brewed vegan organic Green fest Ale), fireshow, circus performances and workshops, Environmental Trade Fair, and all powered by Renewables for the first time.
No on site camping though I'm afraid, but well worth travelling up for if you fancy starting the festival season early

Freespirit apologises to all for the late date-change and resulting Newcastle Green Fair/Strawberry Fair clash -- this enforced change was out of his control






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[William of Walworth]

Main list continued ...

Thursday 1 - Sunday 4 June 2006
Earthwise, Dorset.
Earthwise website.

Fucking horrible hippy affair (that's if they manage to sell any tickets this year and don't have to cancel again )

May be more of an attraction if you're a more of a blatant hippy mind ...

Friday 2 to Sunday 4 June 2006
Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire
Wychwood Festival website
This was a new and very interesting sounding weekend festival in 2005 -- shame it clashes with Strawberry Fair though ...

Friday 9 to Sunday 11 June 2006
Lynton and Lynmouth Music Festival, North Devon, FREE!
Lynton and Lynmouth Music Festival website

Friday 16 to Sunday 18 June 2006. Would seem this one has been extended to Solstice day, Wednesday 21st June
Sunrise Summer Solstice Festival, South Somerset
Sunrise website
Highly Hippy!!

Friday 16 and Saturday 17 June 2006
Isle of Skye Music Festival, Skye, North West Scotland
Isle Of Skye website

Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 June 2006
NEW FESTIVAL THAT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED -- due to Lambeth Council's excessively, and unnecessarily strict 'interpretation' of the licensing laws.
London.
Some of you may have seen early references to this happening on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 June, London, but please ignore these earlier dates as they are wrong!!!!!!!!!
This festival would have been FREE and may possibly yet happen later in the summer, somewhere else than the originally intended Brockwell Park. Nothing yet known on this, though.
Urban Green Fair website -- includes statement from Shane Collins, event organiser.


Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 June 2006
Leamington Peace Festival, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, FREE!!
Leamington Peace Festival website

Thursday 15 to Saturday 17 June 2006 (these dates now confirmed)
Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Sonar Festival website

Friday 16 to Sunday 18 June 2006
19th Umsonst & Draussen Festival, Wurzburg, Germany
Umsont & Draussen Festival website
Late June
Glastonbury
THE BIG ONE IS NOT HAPPENING THIS YEAR EVERYBODY! --gap year.
You will have to wait til late June 2007 for resumption of the traditional Pilton festivities ...
Distract yourself with the World Cup-- 2006 will be the first WC since the 1980s to happen in a non-Glasto year.

Or alternatively :

Friday 23 to Sunday 25 June (possible dates -- nothing yet clear!)
The revived Deeply Vale Festival, somewhere in Lancashire.
The new Deeply Vale website -- not terribly up to date though, as at 1 March 2006!
UPDATE, 1 March 2006 : All previous information now REMOVED
Chris Hewitt (one of the organisers of the original Free Deeply Vale event of the seventies, and heavily involved in trying to get the revived, 2006, but not free version off the ground) has recently announced that the 2006 plans have been CANCELLED
All plans now held over until 2007
Various local authority obstructiveness over licence, cost and conditions, difficulties with the site, legal issues and organisational obstacles.
This information from eFestivals where the webmaster is in close contact with Chris Hewitt, and the latter's representative has been posting.

Friday 23 to Sunday 25 June 2006
Thimbleberry Music Festival, Thimbleberry Hill Farm, near Stanhope, County Durham
Thimbleberry Website
Folk and Acoustic.


Friday 30 June to Saturday 15 July 2006
Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux Jazz website

Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July 2006
Blissfields Festival, Bradley Farm, Bradley, Alresford, Hampshire.
Blissfields website

Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 July 2006 (not yet confirmed -- website still shbows 2005 dates)
Cornbury Music Festival, Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire
Cornbury website
Prior to the 2005 one, this was recommended by sheriff rosco of U75, which is good, but I've heard through other grapevines that it's 'terribly posh' which isn't ... make your own mind up though!

Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 July 2006
Oxygen Festival, Punchtown Racecourse, near Dublin, Ireland.
Oxygen website

80,000 Irish people let loose in a field with tents. Party central.
Good lineup too. The Who and the Chillis are already signed up among others.

Friday 14 to Sunday 16 July 2006
[plus additional gigs on Wednesday 12th (Jools Holland) and Thursday 13th ("major act tbc")]
Larmer Tree Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens, Tollard Royal, 16 miles west of Salisbury, Wiltshire/Dorset border
Larmer Tree website
This is an excellent festival -- I missed it in 2005, but it's thoroughly recommended!

Friday 14 to Sunday 16 July 2006 (dates not yet confirmed -- website still shows 2005 dates)
The Glade Festival, has in previous years been held not far from Reading, Berks.
Glade Festival website
Dance-dominated extravaganza.

Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 July 2006
Rhythms of the World Festival, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, FREE!
Rhythms of the World website

Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 July 2006
Lambeth Country Show, Brockwell Park, Brixton, FREE!
Information on the 2006 Lambeth Country Show on the Herne Hill Forum Blogspot page
Lambeth Country Show is counted by many Brixton based and other Urbanites as their best weekend of the year.

Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 July 2006
XII Festival Internacional de Benicassim, Barcelona, Spain
Benicassim website (in Catalan and Spanish, but not, apparantly, in English)
Quite large and somewhat corporate, but Urbanites have in the past posted good reports. A lot of well-known acts.

Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 July 2006
Ashton Court, Bristol
Ashton Court website
Superb festival last year -- thoroughly recommended by most of the Urban Bristol crew and their visitors.

Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 July 2006
Truck Festival, Steventon, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Truck website
Hollis recommends this one!

Friday 21 to Sunday 23 July 2006
Warwick Folk Festival
Warwick Folk Festival website

Friday 21 to Saturday 22 July 2006
Y Sesiwn Fawr - The Big Session, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.
Sesiwn Fawr website
Super Furries to headline, with "an eclectic blend of musical trends" according to The Observer.
I can confirm that the town is in a stunningly beautiful location, but it's also quite remote!

Friday 21 to Sunday 23 July 2006 (not sure of dates here -- dates based on 2005 ones)
Les Vieux Charrues Festival, Carhaix (is there such a place???), France
Les Vieux Charrues website
Don't know anything about this one ...

Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 July 2006
Village Pump Festival, Wingfield, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Village Pump website

Friday 21 to Saturday 22 July 2006
Wickerman Festival, Kirkcarswell, nr Dundrennan, Solway Coast
SW Scotland
Wickerman website
"Scotland's alternative Festival"

Friday 21 to Saturday 22 July 2006
Eastern Haze Festival, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Eastern haze website
Hawkwind, Ozrics, Senser, etc.!






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[William of Walworth]

Main list continued

Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 July 2006
WOMAD 2006, Rivermead, Reading
Ticket details yet to be confirmed. One day visits likely still to be possible (and encouraged, if you can't make the whole weekend)
WOMAD website
Ticket sale date now confirmed : Wednesday 15 March 2006 -- weekend ones generally sell quickly.

And ultra-annoyingly, the next one (Cambridge Folk Festival, see below) clashes for the second year running!!! with WOMAD. I recently received an email from WOMAD explaining their take on this clash :

Many thanks for your email, and for your feedback.

The WOMAD festival weekend is set as the last FULL weekend in July (ie
not overlapping into August at all) - the reason for not holding it any
earlier is to avoid as much as possible any overlap with the school
term. The school terms in many regions changed slightly about 4 or 5
years ago to finish slightly later than in previous years, which is why
we are now sticking to the latest possible weekend in July.

We don't have any plans to change this because as I'm sure you're aware
many families attend WOMAD and also a significant proportion of our
audience are employed in academic fields, so as many people take the
Thursday and the Friday off in order to attend, we need to be well
clear of the end of term as far as possible.

We hope this explains the situation...

All the best,

The WOMAD Festival Team

Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 July 2006
Cambridge Folk Festival
Folk Festival website
Tickets likely to go on sale at the start of May

Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 29 July 006
Rock and Blues Custom Show, Pentrich, Derbyshire
"A Motorcycle and Music Festival for Bikers"
As their website clearly indicates!
Recommended by Riff ...

Sunday 30 July (probably -- 2006 date to be confirmed)
Ambient Green Picnic, Shalford Park, Guildford, Surrey
One day free festival : hippy, green, Strawberry Fair-esque
Ambient Green Picnic website (website still showing 2005 details for now)
UPDATE, 1 March 2006 : I have been told that the Ambient Green Picnic for 2006 has been CANCELLED

Friday 4 to Sunday 6 August 2006 DATES RECENTLY CONFIRMED
The Big Chill festival, Eastnor Castle, near Ledbury, Herefordshire.
Big Chill website

Wednesday 2 August to Sunday 6 August 2006
Big Green Gathering Mendip Hills, near Cheddar, Somerset
Big Green Gathering website

Tuesday 1 to Saturday 5 August 2006
Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, SW5.
The 2006 one will, for the first time, not be at Olympia, but at the far larger and more easily accessible Earls Court.
A cornucopia of QUALITY BEER!!
And UNDER COVER -- no doubt on a scorching, thirst enhancing weekend as usual!
Full details yet to be confirmed.
CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) website

Tuesday 10 to Saturday 13 August 2006
Bulldog Bash, Shakespeare County Raceway, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire
Bulldog Bash website
Another Bikers' festival.

Friday 11 to Sunday 13 August 2006
3rd Endorse it in Dorset Festival, now moved to a bigger site near Shaftesbury, Dorset (was at Sixpenny Handley, near Larmer Tree Gardens, last year).
Endorse it website
Organised and headlined by Pronghorn and friends (including Flounder, occasional Urban poster and Festival organiser/promoter). This year will include an especially reformed R.D.F. (Radical Dance Faction) on the bill. More acts to come. Described by Zion Train (last year's headliners) as having an 'old school Festival vibe'
UPDATE, March 1 2006 : Other acts recently added : Hayseed Dixie!!, The Beat, Nucleus Roots, Dub Dadda, Senser, Eat Static, and (are they still alive?!) Here and Now plus others ...
Also : Tickets to go on sale from the evening of Wednesday 1st March, 2006 -- Adult weekend price £55=

And not very far from the above ...

Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 August 2006
In Bloom Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens, Tollard Royal, 16 miles west of Salisbury, Wiltshire/Dorset border.
In Bloom website

Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 August 2006 (dates now confirmed)
Cropredy Festival, Cropredy, near Banbury, Oxfordshire
Cropredy website
Fairport's annual bash. Folkie, real ale fuelled, chilled, laid back, wonderful (says he on the basis of his one and only visit in 1983!!!)

Friday 11 to Sunday 13 August
Brecon Jazz Festival, all over town, Brecon, Wales
Brecon Jazz website
Stig once stewarded this and said it was a right laugh. One year I may get there ...

Friday 11 to Sunday 13 August
Shambala this year (2006) is CANCELLED!!
Posted in December by an organiser, over on the forums at EFestivals :

Hello there.
Thought I'd clarify the issues - I am one of the festival organisers at Shambala, and part-deal with licensing.

We did have a few problems last year with traffic, a few extra punters and we will need to look at how the festival stewarding works. But neither during or after the event was there any official suggestion of prosecutable breaches of license. We wish the event could have gone by without pissing off locals, but ce la vie. It's only one weekend but the Bristish public is very sensetive in this way.

For info, we will not be holding Shambala at all next year, to let it calm down.
It is not possible for a license to have been assessed for this year yet, never mind turned down. Having had a full debrief with all relevant authorities, all would consider another application, but with much stricter conditions to protect local residents from disruption.

Friday 11 and Saturday 12 August 2006
Tartan Heart Festival, Belladrum Estate, by Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Tartan Heart Festival

August 2006 (dates not yet confirmed)
Lost Vagueness Festival, probably in East Sussex.
Lost Vagueness website -- website so far not updated for 2006.
Any advance/insider information welcomed

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[William of Walworth]

Main list continued

Wednesday 16 to Monday 21 August
Shambala Family Camp, South Devon, exact location to be revealed later
Shambala Family Camp website
Not the same as the main Shambala Festival (see above -- cancelled for 2006) although some of the same people are involved. This one will be very small, geared largely to families with children.


Friday 18 to Sunday 20 August 2006
Secret Garden Party, location not yet confiemed but crustychick says it will be 'the same as last year' (near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire).
Secret Garden website
Highly recommended by crustychick.

Friday 18 and Saturday 19 August 2006 (probable dates -- not yet confirmed)
Stemweder Open Air Festival, Germany, Free
Owlfeiert/Stemwelder website

Friday 18 to Sunday 20 August 2006
Beautiful Days, Escot, near Exeter, Devon
This is an excellent festival organised by the Levellers (who will headline on one of the days) -- they aim for an old school countercultural Green Fields of Glasto type atmosphere (and it works!). Beer provided by an excellent local brewery, Otter Brewery of Honiton. In 2005, the licence was expanded to cover approaching 10,000 (instead of 6,000) people. Much enjoyed by several Urbanites last August!
Beautiful Days website
Levellers website
Tickets for 2006 very likely to go on sale around February 15th (and on February 1st, for members of the Levellers fanclub, On The Fiddle). I'm told the prices have gone up for 2006 though. And they have, by a shocking £11= -- now £92= for a weekend ticket and £87= for discounted OTF members.

Friday 18 to Sunday 20 August
The Green Man Festival, Welsh borders (exact location not stated on website)
Green Man website

if this column could give out awards, the Green Man festival - a compact, wonderfully hospitable event on the Welsh borders - would effortlessly scoop Festival of the Year

Friday 18 to Sunday 20 August 2006
Pontardawe International Music Festival, Pontardawe, near Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales
Pontardawe website
(1 March 2006 : this URL from Google, but the site currently appears to be down)
Stig stewarded this Festival when she lived in Swansea, back in 2001, and she thoroughly recommends it
UPDATE : Sat 18 March 2006 : website now working!!

Saturday 19 to Friday 25 August 2006
Whitby Folk Week, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Whitby Folk Week website

Thursday 24 to Monday 28 August 2006 (Bank Holiday weekend)
42nd Towersey Village Festival, near Thame, Oxfordshire
Towersey website

Friday 25 to Monday 28 August (Bank Holiday weekend)
Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Shropshire
Shrewsbury Folk Festival website
The former Bridgnorth Folk Festival is moving up the road to Shrewsbury for the first time.

Friday 25 to Sunday 27 August 2006 (Bank Holiday weekend)
Solfest, Tarnside Farm, Tarns, Silloth, West Cumbria
(on the Solway Coast)
Solfest website (all new for 2006)
Strongly recommended by festie friends Tort and Flip/Phlip, visitors to Urban, who went last year!

Sunday 27 and Monday 28 August 2006 (Bank Holiday weekend)
Carnival!, Notting Hill area, W11, FREE!!
Any website details for 2006 much appreciated!

Satuday 19 to Tuesday 29 August 2006
(but main events happen over the August Bank Holiday weekend)
Manchester Pride, 2006
"Ten sparkling days of partying, parade, film, arts and entertainments"
Some events are FREE!!
"Manchester Pride is Manchester's annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) festival, traditionally held over the August Bank Holiday weekend"
All welcome ...


Friday 25 to Sunday 27 August 2006 (Bank Holiday weekend) (probable dates for this festival, not yet confirmed)
Country Lodenica Festival, Slovakia (?)
Country Lodenica website -- not yet updated, and in Slovak!
As obscure ones go, Reg in Slippers has surpassed himself! He recommended this last year, from his 2004 visit. Looks good for European roots music though ....

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[William of Walworth]

Main list continued

Friday 25 and Saturday 26 August 2006
Rock en Seine Festival, Paris
Rock en Seine website (only in French, and currently -- 15 March 2006 -- 'en construction')
Recommended by maestrocloud

Monday 28 August to Monday 4 September
Burning Man Festival, Nevada Desert, U.S.A.
Burning Man website
Unique, apparantly!

Thursday 31 August to Sunday 3 September 2006
Foundation Festival, near Bristol
Foundation Festival website
No details confirmed yet


Friday 1 to Sunday 3 September 2006 (probable dates, not yet confirmed)
Off the Tracks Autumn Festival, Isley Walton, near Donnington racetrack, Derbyshire
No details for 2006 yet.

Friday 8 to Sunday 10 September 2006
Bestival, Robin Hill, near Newport, Isle of Wight
Bestival website
Recommended last year by hiccup ....

Friday 8 to Sunday 10 September 2006 (probable dates, not yet confirmed)
Bromyard Folk Festival, Bromyard, Herefordshire
Bromyard Folk Festival website

Friday 15 to Sunday 17 September 2006 (probable dates, not yet confirmed)
Knockengorroch Festival, Autumn (Hairth O'Knokrath)
Galloway, South West Scotland
Knockengorroch website (not yet updated for Autumn, so far just showing Spring details, see post 1, 19-21 May)

Friday 22 and Saturday 23 September 2006
Loopallu Festival, Ullapool, North West Highlands, Scotland
Loopallu website


October 2006 (dates not yet confirmed)
Whitby Musicport, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Whitby Musicport website
Strongly recommended by our fellow-Urbanite festival freaks moose and Tort .


General festival information also available from EFestivals and Virtual Festivals
Including corporate events .....

 

[JTG]

*drums fingers*

Come on, hurry up! I want you to organise my summer

First bad news btw - no St Pauls Carnival this year

 

[Ground Elder]

Here's one to get things started - Earthwise 1 - 4th June, Dorset. Fucking horrible hippy affair (that's if they mange to sell any tickets this year and don't have to cancel again )

 

[William of Walworth]

OK, post no. 1 now filled ... rest to follow over the next few days.

This Festographic business, tis hard work you know!!

Thanks for that GE -- I'm aware of the Earthwise one, they keep emailing me. Will add it soon.

 

[MarkMark]

About bloody time

I've my tent and suncream was packed and ready hours ago!

but seriously tho.... well done dude, I really am looking forward to another mad summer!

 

[Riff]

Don't forget the Off The Tracks Spring festival 26-28 May, Isley Walton, Castle Donington, Derbyshire

and Rock and Blues Custom Bike Show 27-29 July, Pentrich Derbyshire.

 

[William of Walworth]

More work soon I promise!!

Possibly on Friday ...

I'll be away for most of this coming weekend, but I **promise** the initial draft,. with all so far known information, will be complated by the end of January.

 

[ddraig]

cheers boss good work
<tips cap>

 

[Riff]

Will this thread become a "sticky" once the list is compiled, mods?

<also doffs cap to the festograhic one>

 

[Ground Elder]

One not to put on the list - Shambala definitely NOT on this year.

 

[moose]

Don't forget the Off The Tracks Spring festival 26-28 May, Isley Walton, Castle Donington, Derbyshire

Sssssshhhhhh! <gags riff>

 

[zenie]

Well done and about bloody time

Decisions decisions

 

[DJ Bigga]

errr Vote No.2 for Sticky-Status

 

[paolo]

Sticky Status.... YES! (assuming the good and hallowed Bill of the Worth can manage the editiing )

Poss. additions, for festies where people know...

Camping: Yes/No
Camp Fires: Yes/No
Own Alcohol: (Camp Only/ Not Arena / Anywhere / ????)
Official Close: xx pm
"Improv" close: xx pm

 

[free spirit]

Saturday 29 April and Sunday 30 April 2006
(Early May Bank Holiday weekend -- but 2006 dates not yet confirmed on website)
Newcastle Community Green Festival
Saturday 29 April 2006
Sunday 30 April 2006 (probable dates)
Leazes Park, Newcastle Upon Tyne
(behind St James Park football ground)
Free entry
Newcastle Green Festival website
Website still showing 2005 dates and details
Freespirit (of U75, one of the organisers) said in 2005 :
"Newcastle Green Festival for May Bank Holiday. FYI we get something like
10,000 people over 2 days, and will be having 8 music stages this year, all free and in a lovely city centre park. Oh yeah, and lots of green stuff, very kid friendly etc. etc."

yep
12th Annual Newcastle Community Green Festival
Sat 29th April midday - 6pm Family Day - no alcohol
Sunday 30th April midday - 10.30pm Full Festival Day - loads of good beer
Leazes Park, Newcastle, behind St James Park Football Stadium

looks like we're scaling down slightly on the music stages this year as we're going 100% alt tech, but still 3 proper stages, 2 smaller stages and outdoor performance space (loads of samba / steel band groups).

last years festival had 12,000 people over the 2 days so it really is a proper festival, loads of great north east bands playing all different styles, + proper techno tent on the sunday.

Loads of kids activities on both days, climbing wall, rides, trampolenes, bouncy castle, arts area, workshops in traditional crafts, healing area, 50+ stalls, organic veggie cafes, fireshow, real ale bars run by award winning Wylam Brewery (including specially brewed vegan organic Green fest Ale), fireshow, circus performances and workshops, Environmental Trade Fair, and all powered by Renewables for the first time.

no on site camping though I'm afraid, but well worth travelling up for if you fancy starting the festival season early.

Oh yeah, and it's FREE

<special appeal this year for people to help litter pick on the monday, + please volunteer to help steward at the festival for a bit as it takes hundreds of people to help pull this thing off. Also stalls are available for environmental organisations or fair trade / home made craft's etc. PM me for details>

website needs updating, but it's here with loads of photos from previous years.

cheers for the mention William, maybe one year you'll even venture up north - only 20 quid on the train if you book early

 

[Teepee]

I can't wait for Glade!

eeeeee! *clenches fists*

 

[William of Walworth]

One not to put on the list - Shambala definitely NOT on this year.

Just checked this out on EFestivals, it was the first I'd heard of that ... (the Shambala website says NOTHING though).

This was posted in a Shambala discussion thread by one of the organisers :

Hello there.

Thought I'd clarify the issues - I am one of the festival organisers at Shambala, and part-deal with licensing.

We did have a few problems last year with traffic, a few extra punters and we will need to look at how the festival stewarding works. But neither during or after the event was there any official suggestion of prosecutable breaches of license. We wish the event could have gone by without pissing off locals, but ce la vie. It's only one weekend but the Bristish public is very sensetive in this way.

For info, we will not be holding Shambala at all next year, to let it calm down.

It is not possible for a license to have been assessed for this year yet, never mind turned down. Having had a full debrief with all relevant authorities, all would consider another application, but with much stricter conditions to protect local residents from disruption.

Oh well -- with that weekend (11-12 August) becoming empty, there's always the chance to sample the Endorse It In Dorset Festival. Flounder, an occasional Urbanite and friends with Pronghorn, is one of the organisers, along with those excellent Cowpunks whose brainwave it was to get this festie together.

Endorse It In Dorset Festival poster

I will add this one to the main list soon ...

 

[William of Walworth]

Well done and about bloody time

Yer a demanding woman!!

Not finished yet -- more to come soon ...

 

[William of Walworth]

I am confident the mods will look kindly on our requests to make this Sticky. Will pursue that aim once tha main list is finished!

 

[William of Walworth]

Sticky Status.... YES! (assuming the good and hallowed Bill of the Worth can manage the editiing )

Poss. additions, for festies where people know...

Camping: Yes/No
Camp Fires: Yes/No
Own Alcohol: (Camp Only/ Not Arena / Anywhere / ????)
Official Close: xx pm
"Improv" close: xx pm

That would take a lot of research to do it for all festivals, of course myself and others will know for some, but I can't cover everything. Wherever possible I do check and provide links to the website for the festival.

 

[William of Walworth]

cheers for the mention William, maybe one year you'll even venture up north - only 20 quid on the train if you book early

I'm very tempted, we don't have any plans for early May Bank Holiday this year ...

What do you reckon Stig??!!

 

[han]

No Shambala this year?!!! Waaaaaarrrghghghghg!!!

Oh well - there's still the Big Green Gathering on 2-6th August which we're definitely going to - it's ace!

 

[Stig]

I'm very tempted, we don't have any plans for early May Bank Holiday this year ...

What do you reckon Stig??!!

Yep, I'm up for that, I reckon!

We'd have to sort out staying one night though, as it'd be silly to go all that way for a day trip. (no camping my arse. )
...I'm sure B&Bs are tuppence-ha'penny up there, anyway, though eh?

 

[han]

thread stuck.

That Knockengorroch festie sounds ace. Will definitely think about that one.

I'm also quite tempted by the Wicker Man festie and the Green Man festie <runs off to find dates>

 

[William of Walworth]

Thanks for Stickyising ...

Not sure about the BGG, it may end up being one to many amnmidst all the others.

Stig -- Northern Green Geordie-ing here we come!

 

[William of Walworth]

That Knockengorroch festie sounds ace. Will definitely think about that one.

Tort is trying to persuade us to give it a try, too