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What's so good about Endorse it?

Yup:

Over the weekend of 8th-10th August, the fifth Endorse-it in-Dorset music festival will take place near the village of Sixpenny Handley in the beautiful setting of Cranborne Chase.

It was a birthday party in a barn that sparked off The Endorse-it in-Dorset Festival - an event that inspired members of the band Pronghorn to take things into their own hands and start a festival, bringing local and international music to their home county of Dorset. They have put together a quality event and rather than relying on corporate sponsorship, the team uses local business to make the event profitable to the surrounding community. The Festival goes from strength to strength, pulling in visitors and artists from around the globe and has grown from a one day event of 750 capacity, to a three day festival of 5000.
 
a small festival that's not run by hippies so mercifully free of hippy toss.
... hardly any hippies (did i mention the lack of hippies)

Why did William give it that toe-curling description last year, then? To him it was 'veg-friendly, dread-friendly, crusty-friendly' and all sorts of stuff that made me want to puke.

Surely there must be some element of that, no?
 
Why did William give it that toe-curling description last year, then? To him it was 'veg-friendly, dread-friendly, crusty-friendly' and all sorts of stuff that made me want to puke.

Surely there must be some element of that, no?

There's an element of that, but enough to ignore unless you go looking for it.

I have no problems with veggies, dreads or crusties. It's the dream catching yoghurt weaving fuckwits I can't abide, and they're pretty thin on the ground
 
The poor, overworked pun is very much a speciality of the band. They even did an album called Londis Calling :)

it used to be
"Endorse it in Dorset Festival - I thoroughly recommend it"

but tbh I'm a lazy bastard when having to repeatedly type things out and it's a bit of a mouthful - so 'ee is now being mostly known as Endorse it.
We also ran two Easter festivals at Fromes Cheese and Grain - "Endorse it in Doors"

another Pronghorn pun Album

Inbred with My donner


tbh they've got loads.


I'm not allowed to tell you the name of the next one ( and I can't remember which one it was)
 
There was also going to be a Street Theatre act featuring a small welsh milk maid - can you guess the pun?
 
There's an element of that, but enough to ignore unless you go looking for it.

I have no problems with veggies, dreads or crusties. It's the dream catching yoghurt weaving fuckwits I can't abide, and they're pretty thin on the ground

Thank fuck for that else we'll be camping on the other side of the road. :D

*changes tagline to 'not a fucking hippie'*
 
I'm going because -

to chill in the rolling countryside,
have a few drinks,
listen to some live music,
chat to mates - see a reli or two
its only up the road
its very reasonably priced
I laugh alot. :cool:

and me and sparklefish get to drink loads together and play scrabble :cool: :o
 
bluestreak said:
Zenie has a ticket for sale


:confused: x 10,000????? :(

ETA : OK caught up now. You CAN with a bit of ingenuity and resourcefulness (failing that, blackmail ... :p ) get out of having to work.

And surely you don't work Sats and Suns?

Still VERY well worth it even if you have to arrive fairly late Friday ....

I'll be back next year. Me bruv's under pressure to deliver a VERY good substitute party the w/e after this coming one ... :D

Good luck getting there anyway, make every effort ... I'm jealous this time of everyone heading down ...
 
Mr Steev puts us all right ... ;)

For an old crusty with ska tendancies like me, I think the line-up is great!

Other than that, it is a nice little, friendly, non corporate festival, but it's the bands that are the main attraction for me :)

:cool: ;)

U know the score <-- appropriately cheesey old school natter :D

.... have a fucking wicked time ... steev and everyone ... :confused:
 
Missed this exchange just before ...

NVP said:
Why did William give it that toe-curling description last year, then? To him it was 'veg-friendly, dread-friendly, crusty-friendly' and all sorts of stuff that made me want to puke.

Surely there must be some element of that, no?

There's an element of that, but enough to ignore unless you go looking for it.

I have no problems with veggies, dreads or crusties. It's the dream catching yoghurt weaving fuckwits I can't abide, and they're pretty thin on the ground

NVP said:
Aye. I'm with you on that.

You do know I agree with you both on far more than you think on a whole shedload of stuff don't you? ;)

That admittedly toecurling description -- months ago though FFS!!! -- was very strongly beer fuelled and post-midnight at the time. Not inaccurate tbh (see steev's post) but I have little or no time for leyline wibblers and new age bollocks.

They do have beer and cider even at hippy fests, which this one isn't anyway as correctly stated.
 
It stuck in my mind because it almost put me off going. Ever. :D

So I was wondering if there was no smoke without fire.
 
You'll find out in 10 days or so ... mmm live-in vehicles!! :D :o

The lineup is fucking excellent anyway, I mean particularly so this year. Very very jealous ..... :(
 
It's a nice small, non-commercial festival which isn't hippy-dippy or ravey-davy-gravy and there are lots of people going who I would like to chat to :)
 
It's a nice small, non-commercial festival which isn't hippy-dippy or ravey-davy-gravy and there are lots of people going who I would like to chat to :)

sums it up very nicely.

Nothing spiritual, wholesome or yoghurt-weaving, just a small diy festival with a complete absense of any kind of commercialism whatever - v rare these days at festivals!

Lots of hilarity, very friendly, all kinds of everything. I love the dressing up thing too. A good-ol knees up in the lovely Dorset countryside. Yay!
 
It is really reminiscent of the Brighton Urban Free Festivals of the late 1980's - if any urban folk experienced those.
 
It's small, so you don't wear yourself out
It's unpretentious and just about having a good time in a field
The music's not the main reason for me to go, but it's all happy and uplifting
It's not even slightly 'corporate' or overrun by the 'mainstream'
There are no hippies, which isn't that important, but it all adds up :)
It's in August, which is generally dry :)
 
Couldn't care less about the music (this is true of every festival I've ever been to though), but lots of people have said I'll love it, so I'm going :)
 
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