From: WeGotTickets [tickets_at_wegottickets_dot_com]
Sent: 05 April 2011 11:16
Subject: Part 2 of our pick of Festivals for 2011
*Hello,*
Here's the second installment of your Festivals update from us here at
WeGotTickets HQ. We realised last week that we just had so many Festivals we
wanted to tell you about we couldn't fit them all into one newsletter, so
don't worry if you couldn't find the festival for you in our last missive,
we're sure that you'll find something great happening in your area from the
list below - there really is something for everyone! As before, just click
here:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/festivals
to view a list of every
festival that we have on sale.
*The 1-2-3-4 Shoreditch 2011*
featuring Black Lips, Lydia Lunch, Damo Suzuki (Can) and more Shoreditch Park,
London on 9th July tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2474
The 1-2-3-4 Shoreditch is a one day festival, taking place in Shoreditch Park,
that highlights the audacity and bluster of rock 'n' roll in its rawest form
and presents the best new underground music alongside inspirational
international artists, set deep in the heart of London's most creative and
cultural quarter. This year's line-up already includes Black Lips, Lydia
Lunch, The King Blues, Damo Suzuki, Autokratz, The Chapman Family, The Fair
Ohs and more, and with plenty still to be announced this looks like being a
bit special.
*Meadowlands Festival 2011*
featuring Mirrors, Foy Vance, Doll and the Kicks and more Glynde Place, East
Sussex on 27th to 30th May tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2081
After the successful launch of the festival last May, Meadowlands Festival is
back again for another three day bank holiday extravaganza held in the
sumptuous grounds of Glynde Place in Sussex, just a few miles from both
Brighton and Lewes. A recent line-up announcement sees the hugely admired
Penguin Cafe added to the growing list of exciting acts already confirmed -
including Mirrors, Foy Vance, Doll and the Kicks, Mama's Gun, 6 Day Riot, and
loads more. The festival will be expanding this year, playing host to four
stages, featuring over sixty bands, a comedy and spoken word marquee, campsite
discotheque courtesy of the Tru Thoughts gang, art and light installations,
children's activities, exquisite food, interactive performers, state-of-the-
art sound system and luxury toilets! All in all, this looks like being one of
the events of the summer...
*La Route Du Rock*
Incredible French festival in beautiful beach side setting, featuring Battles.
Mogwai, and more St Malo, Brittany, France on 12th to 14th August
tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2469
Held in and around the beautiful walled seaside city of St. Malo, on
Brittany's Emerald Coast, La Route Du Rock has seen headline sets from Sonic
Youth, Portishead, PJ Harvey, The Cure, Sigur Ros, Foals, Breeders, Mogwai,
The National, TV On The Radio, My Bloody Valentine, Deerhunter, Grizzly Bear
and Tindersticks in recent years, and always has a great international
supporting bill of up-and-coming bands. Only Battles, Mogwai, Here We Go Magic
and Chelsea Wolfe are confirmed so far, but with a beach stage in the daytime
and a spectacular castle stage by night, La Route Du Rock mixes amazing line-
ups with a truly stunning setting.
*London Word Festival*
Automated poetry machines, future libraries, insecure robots, ladies wrestling
men and more Various venues in London throughout several weeks in April
tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/londonwordfestival
London Word Festival IV is fuller than ever before, and offers us a range of
events portioning out a rich collision of literary culture with the pop.
You'll find all of the following and much much more: Emmy the Great, Jack
Underwood and friends will be rattling through the Dewey Decimal system
lamenting the feelings and emotions growing dusty on the shelves of the
'Goodbye Library'; Orwell's bean-counting pro-literary essay 'Books vs.
Cigarettes' gets a run out as Robin Ince, Stuart Evers and others riff on
wordy vices; It's the debut London appearance of 'Cybraphon', the anxiety-
ridden band-bot voiced by Aidan Moffat; The Don King of performance art, Mel
Brimfield brings the 'Intergender Wrestling World Championship' to Balls Pond
Road, featuring Simon Munnery, Kevin Eldon, Josie Long and others; Hannah
Silva and Lara Clifton explore the striptease trade through sound, poetry and
performance in an East End stripjoint. There really is something for everyone!
*Underage Festival*
featuring Janelle Monae, Bombay Bicycle Club, Crystal Fighters and more
Victoria Park, London on 7th August tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2047
Run by the same people as the excellent Field Day festival, and pitched
uniquely - and exclusively - at 14-18 (inc) year olds, Underage Festival is a
bit of a special event and one we're delighted to be selling for. We're even
more delighted to be able to announce the line-up, with stand-out performers
including Janelle Monae(!!!) and Bombay Bicycle Club. The rest of the line-up
is equally exciting, and features Brother, CocknBullKid, Crystal Fighters,
Devlin, Dog Is Dead, Florrie, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Fugative, Ghost
Eyes, Giggs, Labrinth, Maverick Sabre, Roll Deep, Spark, The Chapman Family,
The Midnight Beast, Yaaks, and Yasmin.
*Wychwood Music Festival 2011*
featuring The Charlatans, Cornershop, Roddy Woomble, The Waterboys and more
Cheltenham Race Course on 3rd to 5th June tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/1957
The fantastic Wychwood Festival, a favourite of ours which has been nominated
for countless awards since its inception in 2005, recently added some great
acts to an already impressive line-up. Topping the bill on the Saturday will
be The Waterboys, Friday's headliners are revealed to be Cornershop, and other
big names such as Transglobal Underground, Roddy Woomble, and The Travelling
Band have been added to a bill that features previously announced acts like
The Charlatans, Neville Staple, and The Wurzels(!). Talked about as "an
excellent hybrid of the Big Chill, WOMAD and The Cambridge Folk Festival"
(Time Out) and "a bijou Glastonbury" (The Independent), this year's line-up
looks like being the best yet for an already well regarded festival - get your
tickets now!
*Sunrise Celebration*
featuring Lamb, The Beat, System 7, Johnny Flynn and more Gilcombe Farm,
Somerset on 2nd to 5th June tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2136
Featuring an inspiring mix of the very best in alternative culture, with an
eclectic blend of dub, world, ska, electronica, dub-step, psytrance, breaks,
reggae, folk, Balkan beats and all manner of stompingly good tunes from rising
stars, established favourites and surprise collaborations, all in line with
Sunrise's shining musical reputation. As one of the UK's leading green music
and arts festivals, everything at Sunrise is stamped with a green seal of
approval. Sunrise are also running a special offer deposit system, so you can
pay for your tickets in two manageable installments - with that incentive
there's no excuse for you not to be picking up a ticket right now.
*Vest-ival 2011*
featuring Annie Mac, Kid British, Jersey Budd - and a 5-a-side football
tournament Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich on Saturday 21st May tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2438
Supporting the charities Football Action and Hanna's Orphanage, Vest-ival
combines a stellar musical line-up (with heavy hitters such as Annie Mac and
Kid British) with a 5-a-side football tournament - and the FA Cup (itself)
will be on site! Eat, drink, camp and be merry on Jimmy's Farm (as seen on
Channel 4) all for the bargain earlybird price of just £45... just don't
forget to wear your best vest.
*Dot to Dot*
featuring Hurts, The Naked and Famous, The Joy Formidable and more Bristol
28th May - Nottingham 29th May - Manchester 30th May tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2464
Now in its sixth year, Dot To Dot Festival is established as the UK's best
festival for checking out the hottest new talent around as well as catching
all your favourite established bands. Touring Bristol, Nottingham and
Manchester, three of the UK's most clued-up music cities, from the 28th to the
30th May, Dot To Dot's ever eclectic line-up, crossing numerous genres is set
to grow with the announcement of the latest wave of acclaimed acts joining the
bill. Check the link above to see the line-up in your town and get your
tickets.
*Electric Elephant Croatia*
featuring Derrick Carter, A Love From Outer Space, James Pants and more
Petcrane, Croatia on 14th to 18th July tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2190
Taking place in the same beautiful Croatian town of Petcrane that hosts
Soundwave festival, Electric Elephant offers the opportunity to get out of
this damp and dreary country and experience some great electronica and dance
music in a spectacular setting. What better way to warm yourself this spring
than being safe in the knowledge that your holiday AND festival plans are
already sorted? Boat and beach parties aplenty make this one to get yourself
along to.
*Bearded Theory*
featuring Athlete, The Whip, The Waterboys, Alabama 3 and more Kedleston Park,
Derbyshire on 13th to 15th May tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2206
Bearded Theory Festival will be celebrating its fourth successful year in 2011
and is one of the fastest growing UK festivals. A record breaking party with
beards, bands, arts, crafts, weddings, DJs and general daftness, it's a three
day music festival that every year attempts to break the world record for the
most amount of people wearing a fancy dress beard in one place and at one
time, and their line-up includes Athlete, Alabama 3, The Beat, Zion Train, Dub
Pistols, The Bad Shepherds, UK Subs and many more.
*Headstock Festival*
UK Festival Awards Best New Festival runner-up 2010 returns Newstead Country
Park, Nottinghamshire on 10th and 11th September tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2368
Last year's festival had rave reviews and was runner up for Best New Festival
at the UK Festival Awards. efestivals described the event as "...an excellent
day out... it was nice to see it was a festival run for festival people, very
much by festival people". This year they'll have over 60 acts based over 4
stages and dance arenas plus a dedicated children's area - Kidstock - plus
arts workshops, local traders, charities and food stalls and a lounge bar
serving real ale and cider, amongst other activities. Early Bird tickets are
strictly limited and will be on sale until end April - unless they sell out
first!
*Oxford Jazz Festival*
featuring Soweto Kinch, Kit Downes, The Emily Rose Duo and more Various venues
in Oxford from 21st April to 24th April tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/oxfordjazzfestival
Oxford Jazz Festival, which started just three years ago, has grown to become
a major event in the city's leisure calendar with more venues, artists and
events than ever. This year's astonishingly good line-up includes performances
from the likes of the Elisa Caleb Quartet, Tim Whitehead with The Spin Trio,
Roger Beaujolais, Deirdre Cartwright, Soweto Kinch, The Original Rabbit Foot
Spasm Band, The Emily Rose Duo, Janette Mason Trio, Rob Terry Trio, Bobby
Wellins, Norma Winstone with Glauco Venier & Klaus Gesing, Kit Downes' new
Sextet and many more treats - including a live recording of Radio 3's 'Jazz
Library' programme.
*Americana International*
A celebration of American music, automobiles and culture The County
Showground, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire on 7th to 10th July
tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2265
With over fifty top class artists from the USA, UK. Europe and New Zealand(!)
performing a wide variety of Anglo-American music that is sure to suit the
majority's taste in music genres, there are five stages of virtually non-stop
live music plus dance floors indoors and outdoors to please the many dancers
that support the festival. As always, a huge display of great american
automobiles, motorcycles, trucks and RVs dating from the early 1900s to the
present will be in attendance from all parts of the UK and the rest of Europe.
*Merry Tom Folk Festival*
A brand new festival from the team behind the sadly defunct Spratton Folk
Festival Brixworth Country Park, Northamptonshire on 8th and 9th July
tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2268
Managed by key personnel from the hugely successful Spratton Folk Festival,
the new Merry Tom Folk Festival already has a full line-up of 12 nationally
and locally recognised bands including Celtic folk-rock specialists Mad Dog
Mcrea and Northampton's favourite artists Little Johnny England and The
Angels' Share. The event is planned as a family oriented, easily accessible
summer festival featuring a wide range of live music supported by children's
entertainment, workshops, food and craft stalls as well as onsite camping
facilities.
*IVYLIVE*
One of the South West's finest festivals Filham Park, Ivybridge on 9th to 11th
September tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2086
With an enviable mix of diverse musical talent, IVYLIVE delivers the very best
globally successful mainstream artists, along with the finest music that the
South West has to offer. Although 2011's line-up is under wraps for now, in
2010 the festival boasted the likes of Athlete, Magic Numbers and Get Cape.
Wear Cape. Fly, so you know what to expect. Don't miss out - grab your tickets
now.
*Out Of the Ordinary*
A family friendly eco festival celebrating South East's finest up and coming
talent Knockhatch Farm, Hailsham on 23rd to 25th September tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2468
What do you get when you mix a beautiful field in the Sussex countryside, a
mellow breeze on a September evening and a fiery sun setting over a tranquil
lake? It's elementary - OOTOPIA! OOTO is a 3 day family friendly eco festival,
and the definitive end of season party for all you festival lovers out there.
You're invited to enter a timeless landscape where you can explore and
experience the four elements; air, fire, earth and water, through fantastic
art installations, wild activities and more fun than you can shake your hips
at.
*Cowley Road Carnival - Fiesta In The Park* Roots Manuva headlines second
annual event supporting Oxford's Cowley Road Carnival Oxford South Park on
Saturday 2nd July tickets/info:
www.wegottickets.com/af/60/f/2493
Sensational UK hip-hop legend Roots Manuva - "the Doyen of British rap" The
Independent - heads a line-up of nationally renowned world, reggae and
carnival bands at Fiesta In The Park; a spectacular evening celebration of
music, dance and summer fun for all the family that is unique for Oxford. His
class act of swaggering rap with a Jamaican groove will get the crowds of
South Park on their feet for the Carnival's biggest annual fundraiser!
Best wishes,
WeGotTickets
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