Tapestry Festival cancelled
This year’s Tapestry Festival, set for August 8-9 in south Wales and due to feature the likes of Jeffrey Lewis, Circulus and Danny and the Champions of the World, has been cancelled.
Straight from the source:
Hello folks, We’re sorry to announce that will not be a Tapestry Festival this year.
This decision was made when it became obvious that ticket sales would not reach the figure needed to stage the event. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused, and tickets will be refunded from the point of purchase.
The option to scale down the event was considered but it was decided it would have made it relatively poor value and it would be a shame to put on a half-hearted gig; you can’t cut back on health and safety so all the best things about it would be the first casualties.
There will be an end of July Club and a Festival Special at St Aloysius on Saturday August 9 featuring some of the bands who would have been playing the Festival, so we hope you can make it.
The Tapestry Festival will be back and plans are already in place to make it very special indeed and, if not bigger, it will definitely be better so watch this space.
Cheers…
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Good thing it’s been cancelled. Here’s DiS directing people towards Cornwall to a festival that was actually happening in South Wales!
make it bigger?
Always a good thing to do when you haven't sold all the tickets...
Shame
no Tapestry haven't been but looks like a nice festival
Cornwall?
Good Ol' DiS.
BIG SHAME
Best festival. Blame Failed Day as someone I know would say.
I like their website
It's very nice.
But £60 for that bill? Who were they kidding?
A: Themselves
Who had Tapestry on the sweepstake?
I had Zoo8 or whatever it's called. I bet they announce they're cancelling next week. NOTHING IN THIS GAME FOR FINISHING SECOND.
Looks like Zoo's going ahead
as it's tomorrow!
Zoo lose!
and so do I as I was sure it wasn't happening.
Anything could go wrong in the next 24 hours though...
dont worry
everyone will get there and find out
that
get cape wear cape fly is the only act left on the bill
it's never really been about the line-up though...
I thought they'd built up a decent following, but I agree £60 is likely to put off the uninitiated.
It's definitely my favourite festival and I'm pretty gutted it's not happening this year. Some of my favourite festival performances I've seen have been at Tapestry.
i'd never heard of this
until last year. my driving instructor went and said it was amazing
sad news
to all the haters: Tapestry is one of the few festivals to be more about the spirit of the event - western for its first three years at a bizarro cowboy theme park in Cornwall, then medieval for the past two years in a beautiful deer park in Wales - than the specifics of the line-up
that said, plenty of DiS-championed bands - Part Chimp, Archie Bronson Outfit and especially Chrome Hoof spring to mind - have played some of their most memorable sets at the festival
fingers crossed for 2009
Ok,
So had Wild In The Country?
They're dropping like flies....
It WAS in Cornwall...
...I am just out of date. By a few years.
Sad sad sad
As Manish and JGJug pointed out, this had developed a good crowd and atmosphere. I thought a few festivals that seem to have sprung from nowhere to take advantage of the "UK festival market" this year might fold, but that Tapestry was becoming a regular thing for a lot of people. Did they try and sell a lot more tickets this year? Raise the price significantly?
shame....
Tapestry was/is lovely - an amazing dreamy atmosphere in a deer park (with deers wandering around super near - so near in fact you could probably shoot them if you got good enough at the archery range that's also there). There are knights wandering around with ladies fair and monks and mead and magic. the bands are important of course and last years were a great and odd mix! But it is just a really nice/magical place to be. or was.
shuzbut.
hopefully next year......
next year..
will be amazing, and totally different to what was planned for this year.
Honest guv'
bf
see- I'd have gone to this regardless of the lineup, just cos I've gone every year since it started anyway, but really, they should have sorted a better lineup.
Archie Bronson were great a few years ago- my all time festival highlight, probably, but basically most of the acts slated for this years were people who have played before, none of whom I'd have been massively interested in seeing, plus a few other acts, who basically aren't very good or interesting. What Manish said about the spirit is true- best vibe of any festival, by a mile, but some decent acts wouldn't have hurt either!
anyone going to the mini-tapestry this weekend?
smaller version for cheaper but still as good i reckon...
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