Summers End Prog Festival (Bilston, UK)

“The Progster Presents…” are delighted to announce a bigger and better Summers’ End Festival for 2006.

 

The inaugural festival, held in Gloucester last year, was a one-day event, which was universally praised, both by those who attended and by those who played. This year, with a new venue and format, it will be even better. For 2006, the festival will take place over two days, Saturday September 30^th and Sunday October 1^st at the festival’s new home, The Robin 2, Bilston, one of the UK’s premier live music venues.

 

The line-up draws together some of the best progressive rock bands and performers from the UK and the wider European prog scene and  – at time of writing – is confirmed as:

 

Saturday 30^th Sept, Afternoon: Ezra + Credo + White Willow (Norway - headlining)

Saturday 30^th Sept, Evening:  TBC + Strangefish + Pendragon (headlining)

 

Sunday 1^st Oct, Afternoon: Darwin’s Radio + Pure Reason Revolution + Flamborough Head (Netherlands - headlining)

Sunday 1^st Oct, Evening: Guy Manning (acoustic) + Also Eden + The Flower Kings (Sweden - headlining)

 

Ticket prices have been kept as low as possible and a weekend ticket, bought in advance, is just £40 (with six acts per day, that’s just £3.33 per act!).

 

Day tickets will also be available at £25 for each day. All prices will be higher ‘on the door’ and numbers are to be limited to 500, so early booking is recommended.

 

The change to the two-day format is a direct result of comments made during the recent “fantasy festival” audience survey posted on prog websites and forums. Indeed, most of the bands have been invited by request of the survey’s respondents.

 

Other format changes that have come from the survey include the provision of some seating and the admission of younger prog fans (14+, though under 18s must be accompanied by an adult).

 

Tickets will be available on-line through the Robin 2 box office (www.therobin.co.uk) and the Sonicbond website (www.sonicbond.com) and by post, by phone or in person from the Robin box office.

 

A new festival website (www.summersend.co.uk) will also be launched around the 3^rd of June, alongside a Festival yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/summersendfestival) and Myspace site (http://www.myspace.com/summersendfestival)

Great stuff. Looking forward to this. 

I'll be there both days Prog Chick with my mate Rob. We'll both be wearing 'Tinyfish' t-shirts.




Edited by sigod - September 26 2006 at 18:11

sigod wrote: I'll be there both days Prog Chick with my mate Rob. We'll both be wearing 'Tinyfish' t-shirts.

Have fun girls too. I should have written, girls and guys. Sorry !

You are all so lucky. The only grand musical event around here is a collection of crap called "Festival de Viña". The rest is local bands with low experience and half done artistry. Back in school, I remember reading something about Art history. The book was almost exclusively about the 40 years delay between the vanguardist plastic movements and Chile. Plus, our last dictator killed Arts and Artists as well, so the state of development of many fields is naturally relegated to a state many levels bellow what you would call "Underground".

It's getting exciting here too............. really looking forward to this! I have just popped 4 loaves of dough into the airing cupboard so there is enough bread at breakfast time for all the folk who seem to be crashing at our place tonight............. 'cos I think in the morning we're having us a convoy!!!

On behalf of Huw and myself (I was the co-organiser and the other bloke doing the band intros - oh, and the Sonicbond bloke), thanks to everyone who came - it was an amazing weekend, and I haven't really come down yet!

Yes, I've had car problems for quite some time, so I hope to rectify this soon!  I could have seriously slept in the car too (I'm just that kind of guy!).

Well hopefully they'll put on another next year and I hope to have my car sorted by then.

Lambie, is it likely to go ahead next year?  I would love it if it did.  Obviously it depends on who wants to play, but the more recognition it gets, the more bands I'm sure would like to play.

You need more RIO/Avant-Prog bands though, too much symphonic.

hello all form the prgoboys we had an excellent weekend,spent a fortune on cd`s was prog chicks fault the new pendragon dvd and cd set,that was my second purchase,credo-field of vision my first the white willow,magenta,also eden,flamborough head etc etc.....

i managed to buy a few extra cd`s buy getting my drinks form the entrance bar nealry a pound cheaper there....lol...

all the bands were excellent my fav was pendragon never seen them live before!!!! been playing cd`s ever since.....

pure reason revolution were too loud for me but i bought the cd anyway,another prog chick recoomendation,are you on comission????

thanks to all for the organisation it was superb cant wait for next one ...:-)

ps tiny fish summer promo worth checking out nice guys superb music,they played a track on www.progrock.com radio last night as well,fly like a bird a future classic....

proggz