Basically I need a festival this summer, in the UK preferably but I could cope with a cheap one in Europe. Hopefully costing under £160 including travel and a ticket. (I live in London)
I want a reasonably large one with some good bands on the lineup and that isn't sold out yet. I'm pretty desperate here as I have no holiday this summer and want somewhere to go for the weekend that I will thoroughly enjoy.
Any suggestions are welcome.
oooh
I'll jump in on this bandwagon me thinks...also any really friendly festivals; because I suspect I might be going by myself..
Friendly, lovely and chilled
http://www.thegreenmanfestival.co.uk/
End of the Road seems like the obvious answer.........
Great line-up, friendly, beautiful West Country location (on the Dorset/Wilts border), tickets are about 105 quid I believe so it would come in on budget too.
Check it out:
http://www.endoftheroadfestival.com/
End of the Road
i'll second tbat notion. AWESOME lineup!
Also Connect in Scotland and Green Man are rather lovely.
yes
i would agree, for stuff still to come this summer it cant be beaten.
How is truck?
I think I may buy a ticket.
Truck is a brilliant event.......
good line-up this year too.
If you want to go then you should haul ass though, it's two weeks on Saturday.
Truck
can be brilliant, although its different that they dont announce the whole lineup - just the main few bands.
Lemonheads and Okkervill River are playing this year though and the bands announced do look pretty good.
They've just announced virtually the whole bill
It's on their Myspace/last.fm entry.
I'm very much behind the EOTR suggestion - great atmosphere, stuff to do and find, endlessly excellent bill. Offset looks good. Summer Sundae is as schizophrenic as ever (clash of John Power and Fuck Buttons FTW) Is Green Man sold out?
shit, have they?
very subtle!
It was in a Myspace bulletin
so obviously they weren't expecting anyone to read it.
ah, yep
i missed that one then! although i do try and reasd back on some bulletins when/if i can. just seen the blog though!
JAG
Offset Festival...?
Your £160 will go far. Tickets are £45 for a weekend ticket, £55 with camping.
It's in a beautiful forest, but also on the Central Line so it'll cost you something like £1 to get there if you've got an Oyster :)
Bands include Wire, Maccabees, Metronomy, Prinzhorn Dance School, Tom McRae, Young Knives, Johnny Foreigner and about 150 others, on 7 stages.
We're independent and very friendly. Promise.
^this
probably the best festival JAG ever. Offset is looking very promising!
offset
looks bloody great, congratulations and good luck with it!
that does look flaming great
shame it clashes with woolfire, but i might have to go to this
You are really tempting me
if the secret headliner are who they're sposed to be, I will try my best to be in attendance.
Yep...
... I'd go along with the suggestions for End of the Road and Truck, and Offset sounds pretty decent too. I'd also throw in Indietracks - a Derbyshire indiepop festival on a steam railway - which is really friendly and independent.
Green Man
Camp Bestival. Or try and win tix to the lovely Latitude: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/nemone/festival_giveaway.shtml
Well from the suggestions
Offset looks like the best option as it is so cheap.
and the line up is great, do not forget that.
Also it would mean that you could attend this one and still be in budget.
http://www.standon-calling.com/
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nozstock!
zxzw
Also check out www.zxzw.nl with Wire, Gay Against You, Cadence Weapon, Sun Ra Arkestra and 150 more acts.
Weekend tickets (where most acts will play) are only 25 euro. Cheap accomodation is available and there's no actual festival ground with expensive beer and food. You can just buy it in town.
There's a beer festival on at my local.
I've been converted to the cause of real ale. I've formed a militant wing of CAMRA called The Real Ale IRA.
*IPA