Festivals list 2007

[Dr Bunsen]

Here's a list of festivals for the coming year, feel free to add any more you know of to the list...

march 16- 19? dragon Orgiva www.partyvibe.com/conspiracy (http://www.partyvibe.com/vbulletin/../conspiracy)

april 25-29 Nailsworth Festival www.nailsworthfestival.com (http://www.nailsworthfestival.com/)

may 5 - 28 www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk (http://www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/)

may 9 -12 womad Cáceres, Spain

may 10? Stow Fair

may 19 www.levellers.org.uk (http://www.levellers.org.uk/) Levellers’ Day

may 25 - June 10 Bath Fringe Festival www.bathfringe.co.uk (http://www.bathfringe.co.uk/)

may28 Kingston Green Fair www.kingstongreenfair.org.uk (http://www.kingstongreenfair.org.uk/) 20th Anniversary

may 31- june 3 www.sunrisecelebration.com (http://www.sunrisecelebration.com/)

june 1-3 www.wychwoodfestival.com (http://www.wychwoodfestival.com/)

june 2 Strawberry fair www.strawberry-fair.org.uk (http://www.strawberry-fair.org.uk/)

june 6-8 G8 Germany

june 16-17 Leamington Peace Festival www.peacefestival.org.uk (http://www.peacefestival.org.uk/)

june 21 Stonehenge

june 22-24 Pilton www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk (http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/)

june 27- july 1? Winchester www.hatfair.co.uk (http://www.hatfair.co.uk/)

june 28- july 1 Fusion Festival www.fusion-festival.de (http://www.fusion-festival.de/)

june 29- 6 july hesfes www.hesfes.co.uk (http://www.hesfes.co.uk/)

june 29-july 1 work house festival www.workhousefestival.co.uk (http://www.workhousefestival.co.uk/)

july 11-15? Buddhafield Festival www.buddhafield.com (http://www.buddhafield.com/)

july 30-5 august European Juggling Convention, Athens www.eja.net (http://www.eja.net/)

july 14-15 Ashton Court Festival www.ashtoncourtfestival.com (http://www.ashtoncourtfestival.com/)

july 27-29 womad www.womad.org (http://www.womad.org/)

august 1-5 Big Green Gathering www.big-green-gathering.com (http://www.big-green-gathering.com/)

august ? Landjuweel Ruigoord www.ruigoord.nl (http://www.ruigoord.nl/)

august 17-19 Beautiful Days www.beautifuldays.org (http://www.beautifuldays.org/)

august 5-27 Edinburgh Fringe www.edfringe.com (http://www.edfringe.com/)

august 24-27 Shambala

august 9-11 Cropredy www.fairportconvention.com (http://www.fairportconvention.com/)

august 31- september 2 www.raggedhedgefair.co.uk (http://www.raggedhedgefair.co.uk/) and Electric Picnic www.electricpicnic.ie (http://www.electricpicnic.ie/)

september 7-9 Bestival www.bestival.net (http://www.bestival.net/)

september 11-14 www.dsei.org (http://www.dsei.org/) Arms Fair

september 19-22? Robodock www.robodock.org (http://www.robodock.org/)

december Festival of Music & Dance Arba Minch Ethiopia http://www.myspace.com/arbaminchfestival
(http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=116118893)

[MrAHC]

theres about 3 -4 in there that are any cop

[cheeseweasel]

Anyone know if Beatherder is on again this year? Went last year, it was on a farm in Gisburn, Lancashire. Best festival I've been to - was really surprised how good it was - awesome atmosphere and people.

[globalloon]

may 25-28 emergence festival, south devon http://www.emergencefestival.co.uk/

[Holeydel]

One of the bast and whackiest ones I went to was last years La Tomatina festival near Valencia, Spain.

20,000 people throwing tomatoes at each other for 90 minutes is NOT something you see and do everyday.

Check out a couple of photo's through my myspace link /delduggan

Recommend the fest to anyone. I'll definately be doing it again!

[captaintrench]

Anyone know if Beatherder is on again this year? Went last year, it was on a farm in Gisburn, Lancashire. Best festival I've been to - was really surprised how good it was - awesome atmosphere and people.

I believe the beatherder is on this year, same weekend as last year.keep checkin for't new website.:bounce_fl

[cheeseweasel]

Cheers!

[hedmekanik]

Sonar, Barcelona, June 14-16
Plane tickets, check
Passport, check
Visa, check
Dancing shoes, check

Yess puhleez...

[Signal Jammer]

BLOC WEEKEND 23rd – 25th March 2007.

Pontin's Holiday Park, Hemsby, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK.

www.blocweekend.com

and

Monegros desert Festival (approx mid-July)

Website not updated since last year www.monegrosfestival.com but should be in a few months.

Monegros is an amazing festival for Techno lovers, held over one night in the middle of the desert for 15hrs or so. Went last year and am going back this year over SONAR :weee:

[Anarkismo]

Bloc weekend looks well good, Dead Silenceraaa

Anyone of to czechtek this year?

[Run The Risk]

July 20/21/22nd http://www.easternhaze.com/

raaaraaaraaa

[jayney]

Solfest August Bank Holiday Weekend, it's near Carlisle, cracking little festie no robbers or mean people and you can park your car by your tent....
http://www.solwayfestival.co.uk/

[shortylila]

DanceValley , Amsterdam 14 July

Cant wait to see the line up as think will be coming this year again!! If I get a ticket!!!
raaa raaa raaa raaa

[J*isadaisy]

Sunrise celebration festival!!
The most 'socialy responsible' and 'self sustaining' festival. Anyone going? think tickets are still £65 for the whole 5 days.
www.sunrisecelebration.com (http://www.sunrisecelebration.com)

[Josie]

http://www.swanseafutures.co.uk/en/news/details.asp?NewsID=278

http://www.cilycwm.com/smallnations/

There is usually a reggae festival in Tenby towards the middle/end of the summer (although it was cancelled last year).... and Escape into The Park which although is billed as a festival is actually a one day event that finishes at 11pm - a festival that finishes at 11pm?!:laugh_at:

[cathdreadhead]

planning on going or am going to:
Sunrise
Beatherder
Solfest....

:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl :bounce_fl

[Dissenter]

http://www.godivafestival.co.uk/

Midlands bigest free festival in my hometown, gr8 acts from killa kella to aswad to kasabian (before they were big)

check it

[Tank Girl]

Anyone been to 'Ambient picnic' ?

(one day I think rather like kingston green fair)

If so is it any good?

[hetty]

after having to wait an extra week, i think the glade line-up is actually being released tomorrow. not that i really agree with this, but i suppose it makes it easier to decide if i actually want to go or now

[Playground Politics]

maybe there are to many festivals?, or am i just ebing padantic

[hetty]

maybe there are to many festivals?, or am i just ebing padantic

no, i think you have a serious point. well actually there are too many shit festivals and not enough banging ones. but im just disillusioned with festivals now anyway, i went to bloc and had the most depressing time ever!

[General Lighting]

no, i think you have a serious point. well actually there are too many shit festivals and not enough banging ones. but im just disillusioned with festivals now anyway, i went to bloc and had the most depressing time ever!
its a good point.

These contemporary festivals are merely the Establishment very grudgingly enduring our culture, whilst often making us pay to be subjected to the intense scrutiny of the nanny state's agencies, and with each year they pick another fault and find a further way to reduce our freedoms, whilst forcing organisers to adopt a market-led commercial ethos.

Long before some of us were born (and when I was a small child) there were actually huge free festivals on British common land.

But the British Government eventually busted the man responsible (Wally Hope) for trumped up drugs charges, and subsequently broke his mind and body in a mental hospital to the point where by the time he was released he ended up taking his own life.

Every festival since then has been subjected to intense opposition and with todays surveillance and IT its very easy to pick up on things like "tolerated drugs use" and/or monitor and collate noise levels or complaints from whinging nimbys

[hetty]

its a good point.

These contemporary festivals are merely the Establishment very grudgingly enduring our culture, whilst often making us pay to be subjected to the intense scrutiny of the nanny state's agencies, and with each year they pick another fault and find a further way to reduce our freedoms, whilst forcing organisers to adopt a market-led commercial ethos.

Long before some of us were born (and when I was a small child) there were actually huge free festivals on British common land.

But the British Government eventually busted the man responsible (Wally Hope) for trumped up drugs charges, and subsequently broke his mind and body in a mental hospital to the point where by the time he was released he ended up taking his own life.

Every festival since then has been subjected to intense opposition and with todays surveillance and IT its very easy to pick up on things like "tolerated drugs use" and/or monitor and collate noise levels or complaints from whinging nimbys


bloc was in a pontins in gt yarmouth which not only was the most depressing place in the world but you really got the sense that they were just putting up with 2000 ravers for one weekend because to be honest, which holiday makers are going to go to hemsby in march? i got fed up with the scrutiny everyone came under, just because we're into techno doesnt mean we're gonna wreck the joint. we even had to prove that our chalet was still standing at the end of it in order to get out of the place.
never again

[welly]

I was lucky to be old enough to have been ar free festivals/ parties in the 90's. My summers just involded travelling from one to another. We got hold of a handwritten piece of paper that was produced by the free information network and that contained all we needed.
The last free festival I went to was outside Luton and organised by Exodus and that was 6 years ago.
The authorities have effectively squashed these festivals and I am ashamed to say many who started with high ideals now make lots of money butting on shit commercial things.
However there are still hundreds of good festivals/ gatherings, just search about and avoid the commercial ones with big names and security that hate people having fun.
There are smaller ones that leave you smiling and not ripped off. Workhouse and sunrise were two I went to last year that fit that i enjoyed last year.
check out www.campscene-directory.co.uk (http://www.campscene-directory.co.uk) for a list of gatherings that you might either love or go running for everything plastic and commercial that you can find

[welly]

http://www.freewebs.com/samsimillia/buryurshit.JPG__________________
http://www.freewebs.com/samsimillia/festies92front.JPG
A blast from the past thanks go to Dready Warrior, for being together enough and computer literate to help share some rare old fun

[TEK Tonic]

Welly - that is so cool!

I used to have one of those "Bury your shit" flyers stuck up on my bedroom wall for years. I think I got it at Topedo Town (the site where there wasn't a fire and where spiral tribe were playing only tapes because the OB had nicked (I mean impounded) their decks). When I finally took down all my posters (including those SP23 ones for breach the peace) and put them in the attic my mum threw them away (and those spiral ones too!).

I was gutted and thought I would never see that lovely looking spade again.

Thanks for a fantastic blast from the past.

TC

PS I also walked for about three hours over the hills to get to Happy Daze in Keri that year too. Hell of a walk but well worth it. When we got home afterwards we saw ourselves on the news looking messy but happy.

[the rev]

I was lucky to be old enough to have been ar free festivals/ parties in the 90's. My summers just involded travelling from one to another. We got hold of a handwritten piece of paper that was produced by the free information network and that contained all we needed.
The last free festival I went to was outside Luton and organised by Exodus and that was 6 years ago.
The authorities have effectively squashed these festivals and I am ashamed to say many who started with high ideals now make lots of money butting on shit commercial things.
However there are still hundreds of good festivals/ gatherings, just search about and avoid the commercial ones with big names and security that hate people having fun.
There are smaller ones that leave you smiling and not ripped off. Workhouse and sunrise were two I went to last year that fit that i enjoyed last year.
check out www.campscene-directory.co.uk (http://www.campscene-directory.co.uk) for a list of gatherings that you might either love or go running for everything plastic and commercial that you can find



The 2000 exodus festy is still a very sore point for me. My van threw a rod through the block on the m25.(my fault) No insurence or mot the ob had a field day. twelve month ban and £600 in fines, missed the whole fucking thing. The last free festy i went to was dragon this year which was shit hot even if it was a little to organised, the first i went to was i think called torpedo town prob 1992. Couldnt have not gone really considering about a thousand travellers descended on the little lane we used to live on. seemed to be a wierd one. all the locals were shitting themselves my mum included and the police didn
' know what to do.Total fucking chaos! The festival seemed to shift from one location to another as the police attempted to stop it. It started in romsey and i think finally finished up near winchester. We had crusties hanging round for months after there used to be loads of little sites full of old buses and army lorries. This was definatley a defining point in my life :crazy: :crazy:

[USE]

ambient picnic 2007 http://www.ambientpicnic.co.uk/

i'll be doing the visuals for the dance tent. come and say hi if you're there.

[Meltown]

Don't 4get Strawberry fair the UKs biggest free festi, although every year is said to be its last as the ob dnt like everyone walking round smokin weed, its back this year still no dance stage as in the new licence agreement but there will still be plen ty going on + ed cox should be playin last set on the main stage

also if you come down on the friday my band are playin the Haymakers Pub on chesterton road come check it out

[miss bassets]

ne1 doin the italian job ??????

[Tank Girl]

ambient picnic 2007 http://www.ambientpicnic.co.uk/

i'll be doing the visuals for the dance tent. come and say hi if you're there.


cool - I'll be there and will try and say hello ! :group_hug

[marcusblanc]

http://www.7thsunfestival.com/


Just booked some tickets:weee: , looks great, small (500 tickets, £35 for the wknd) but perfectly formed.

Loads of my mates are djing...raaa raaa raaa