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  3. End of the Road 2009 (!)

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    Lots of good suggestions there....

    Here are just a couple more...new acts who will be putting out albums next year

    Laura Groves ( Has worked with Emmy The Great and Jeremy Warmsley)

    The B of the Bang (Album being released next year on Strange Death of Liberal Englands producers new record label)

    And more established

    Angus And Julia Stone

    Maps

    Lightspeed Champion

    Peggy Sue And The Pirates

    Headliner

    Regina Spektor ?

  7. End of the road festival 2008

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    Well, what a great great festival. My first time at EOTR and it exceeded expectations. The music oozed quality throughout the weekend, the site was well layed out and there was plenty of space for camping, and the vibe was friendly, chilled and safe.

    Personal highlights...

    Wandering through the woods (at night and day) with the twinkling fairy lights, streamers and installations. Beautiful. And then finding the piano.

    Bon Iver. A mesmerising set. Here's a clip from you tube

    The flashing floor disco

    Kimya Dawson who was witty, funny and strangely engaging

    All the people I met !

    Have just seen that next year its gonna clash with Bestival. I need to clone myself !!!!

  12. Camp Bestival - Early review

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    Overall, had a fine time! Enjoyed suprises from Lucky Elephant, Eliza Doolittle and the likes of, really disapointed by CB, and even Flaming Lips...thought both were dire. Imagined Village better than I could have imagined....

    Need more shops to buy milk and so on....£3.50 a LITRE for UHT milk....that's a piss take...

    Thought sound was great....at least as good as GFs Park Stage.

    Comedy stage should have an over 18 cert.

    Stroke of genius was to put the Insect Stage in the Kids Field, so parents could catch some nice tunes, while keeping the kids happy...

    Nice one Rob and crew....

  14. Camp Bestival - Early review

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    This is what Rob Da Bank has posted on the Bestival forum...

    "to anyone who came down and made the inaugural camp besti go with a bang

    as always we'll be on here checking all feedback

    in a nutshell we thought for a first year we did pretty well and the feedback onsite was largely very positive, especially from those with families...there were a few mistakes which we recognised very quickly and will be sorted for 2009

    huge apologies to those caught in the queues friday pm... on top of the site only having one road into it, we counted cars and there were 1.8 adults to each car (boring stat but true) with many families bringing two cars, kids in one, vast tents in another!.. so we had almost double the amount of cars arriving than we anticipated

    we always knew the tents/camps/gazeebos would be bigger than your average show and more cars would come but we did hope more peeps would come on public transport...but i know with a lot of gear its a struggle

    so the car parks got full very quickly as did the campsite...on reflection we can see and have already enquired about new land for hire

    toilets - most kept very clean and with loo roll all weekend, but not enough.. a situation we tried to remedy during weekend but being such a busy festival weekend we couldnt..sorry, this is number one priority for next year along with bigger campsites and car parks..and more family facilities

    music/comedy - lots of good feedback on what was on offer - laughter lounge needs to be bigger, as does bollywood after hours

    this was our first year and cost a lot to put on and was a massive risk to take but now we know it works the line up will expand as will arenas on site...

    those are just a few thoughts off the top of my head but we'll be on it for improvements as anyone who comes to bestival/reads the forum knows..

    site doesnt look quite as nice now without you guys on it !"

  15. Camp Bestival - Early review

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    This is an edited version of what I posted up earlier on the Bestival forum....

    Well, back from Camp Bestival, and what can I say! Had a brilliant time. So many highlights. The sun shone for 2 days (and even the other day can at worst be described as a bit of wet air). The music was great. The atmosphere was lovely – chilled but happy, and for a festival in its first year everything seemed to work pretty well. I’m still recovering right now, but here are some 1st impressions….

    I know some people got caught up in the traffic congestion caused, as far as I understand it by the campsite and car parks becoming much fuller than expected, but all credit to the organisers who obviously worked their socks off to sort out the problems as soon as they became apparent. I think next year they should ban Gazebos.....too many of them and they take up far too much space...I saw one family of 2 adults and 2 kids with a gazebos each side of their tent !!! Imagine if everyone had done that. As I said, I reckon the organisers did worked well and hard to find more land at such short notice....I’m sure it wasn’t easy having to find owners of adjacent land and then negotiating with them to use their land for extra camping etc. I don’t think anyone could have expected so many people to bring so many large tents…much larger than other festies… A lesson learned I’m sure if Camp Besti comes back next year.

    I took my children to Camp Bestival and they also loved it. They loved the jousting, Bluecoats, dressing up and of course the kids garden which was fantastic. So nice to see a kids area at a festival that wasn’t fully segregated meaning that mum and dad could enjoy a beer from the pub (or cup of tea and cake from the lovely W.I), watch some bands (I particularly liked Lucky Elephant) and the kids could enjoy all the activities provided in a gorgeous gorgeous setting. Both adults and children alike were amazed by the Insect Circus which was top notch. The toilets were also much much cleaner than many of the other festies I have been to (over 40 of the things) and were well serviced. There were quite large queues at the main toilet block on the campsite each morning, which seemed strange considering that there was another block at the top of the blue site that wasn’t on the map that had virtually no queues, or very small ones in the morning. Arena toilets seemed fine...certainly cleaner than many festies and the queues were average...pretty much the same as many festies this size.... although maybe a few more in the Kids field would have helped...

    Musical highlights for me were many….Beardyman absolutely rocked, Kate Nash and Billy Bragg singing ‘New England’ together was heart melting, Florence and The Machine were bonkers and The Flaming Lips were visually stunning (although maybe musically not always spot on.. shame about their set being cut by the licensing restrictions...maybe Wayne shouldn't have chatted so much in between songs)

    So, a great festival. Hope its back next year. It’s a great little sister to Bestival, and just right for families like mine who have grown up with big Festies but now want something a little smaller, a little calmer, but with lots of fun that we can bring our kids to.

    Improvements? Hmmm…virtually none from my perspective...maybe putting it on during summer holidays though so families don't have to take kids out of school I’m sure next year the camping / car parking will be sorted.

    So LOVED EVERY MOMENT. One of the best weekends of the year.

    Here’s to next year ???? (And of course Bestival itself in September)

    Hi di hi Campers !!!

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