Boomtown 2011!

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A wonderful 3 day family affair, after 3 sell out years boom Townz annual fair returns in an even more outrageous ridiculous way, now catering for 10,000 lovely ska swing enthusiasts its fast becoming the uk's best festival for ska, reggae and genres a like

The first batch of confirmed artists for this year's BoomTown (12-14th August) will be announced NEXT WEEK on our brand new shiny website! Early Bird Tickets are on sale from Feb 1st...

A word from the Boomtown family -

We trust you are all wintering well and having a very merry festive season! Although it may seem summer is still a long way past the horizon all of us at Boomtown have been steamrolling ahead preparing for the next annual summer fair and we feel it's time to bring everyone up to speed on all the exciting new additions that will be showcased at this mad, ridiculous, and totally outrageous event ahead of us!

Boomtown has well and truly emerged from its slumber and is boldly being propelled towards the next chapter cementing its place as one of the FOREMOST festival going towns in Britain. The success of the 2010 fair is a testament to the scope and growing ambition of Boomtowns mayor: to go above and beyond the horizon; to venture out into the unknown; to promote otherworldly experiences that will tantalise the senses.

Now let me take you back to last year! Boomtown was still pretty chaotic with cars half buried in the neo-noir network of streets that were flanked by seemingly innocuous shops and flame-spouting lampposts. Occasionally you still saw the maniacal horseman prowling the streets on his fire-breathing mechanical steed. Suffice to say Boomtown was certainly no safe haven a year ago. But safe or not, a huge rise in popularity has forced Boomtown to respond resulting in an expansive urban redevelopment headed up by its town officials, and fuelled by its new found popularity. The town centre has been upgraded dramatically with bigger buildings, bigger bands, louder sound! The original handful of destitute streets that spider-webbed its way through Boomtown has been growing evermore strands giving rise to two exciting new areas.

May-fair Avenue, an altogether far more elegant part of town has opened its doors to the fair and along its length run deluxe casino's where dreams can come true, sumptuous restaurants offering excellent and diverse cuisine, suave gentlemen's clubs which will turn a little raucous as the nights stretch on, and shopping for the slightly heavier of wallet.

Even ‘Old Town'- which still houses Boomtowns senior residents - has never been opened to the public as the buildings are ancient and decaying! In the unoccupied and slightly less dilapidated variety of these buildings the town officials decided to set up old school bars and disco's playing music from the 50's onwards (this, they hope, will provide the old-timers with a measure of pleasurable nostalgia thus rendering them less of a nuisance.) Continuing in this vein, traditional cafés, bingo venues, and the like have also been implemented.

The mayor and officials attempt to maintain control of Boomtowns ever-growing expansion but don't expect this to last long. The rebels have since left Downtown Boomtown and have started infiltrating the rest of the city promoting debauchery and disdain, and by the time the next annual fair kicks off expect hell to once again resurface on the streets of Boomtown.

Super early bird tickets go on sale 1st February priced at the ridiculous amount of £63! (slightly more than we hoped but mainly due to vat increase) These were sold out in less than two weeks last year so don't miss out!

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