Summers End Prog Festival (Bilston, UK)
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Topic: Summers End Prog Festival (Bilston, UK)
Posted By: Lambsie
Subject: Summers End Prog Festival (Bilston, UK)
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 09:51
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“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 30th and Sunday October 1st 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 30th Sept, Afternoon: Ezra + Credo + White Willow (Norway - headlining) Saturday 30th Sept, Evening: TBC + Strangefish + Pendragon (headlining) Sunday 1st Oct, Afternoon: Darwin’s Radio + Pure Reason Revolution + Flamborough Head (Netherlands - headlining) Sunday 1st 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 ( http://www.therobin.co.uk/ - www.therobin.co.uk ) and the Sonicbond website ( http://www.sonicbond.com/ - www.sonicbond.com ) and by post, by phone or in person from the Robin box office. A new festival website ( http://www.summersend.co.uk/ - www.summersend.co.uk ) will also be launched around the 3rd of June, alongside a Festival yahoo group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/summersendfestival - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/summersendfestival ) and Myspace site ( http://www1.myspace.com/summersendfestival - http://www.myspace.com/summersendfestival ) |
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Posted By: Lambsie
Date Posted: June 25 2006 at 15:55
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Just a quick note to add that the final act has now been added:
John Mitchell / John Beck (Kino) will open the Saturday evening session with an acoustic set.
Also, the website is now online at http://www.summersend.co.uk - www.summersend.co.uk
Stephen
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 12:05
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Great stuff. Looking forward to this.
------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 03:57
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I know there are threads about who is going, but I an't find 'em............. and as it's only a few days away now (yippeeee!) Who is going?
I'll be there for the Saturday only.......... (a whole weekend was a logistical nightmare! )
Hope to see some faces there!
P-C
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 18:08
I'll be there both days Prog Chick with my mate Rob. We'll both be wearing 'Tinyfish' t-shirts. ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 18:16
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OoOo Pure Reason....I'm jealous! have fun guys! -------------  
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 03:04
I'd like to tell you how to spot me................. but as I am a girl, I have NO IDEA WHAT I WILL BE WEARING IN 3 DAYS TIME!!!
 I'm er, tall, and I have long hair..............er...........I will say "Hi Sigod" if I see the TinyFish shirts for sure!
Recently I went to a local gig.......I knew Geck0 was going to be there.........I felt like some kind of weirdo going up to young men saying "hello are you James?" especially when they said "No....S*d off Grandma!"
So now I feel socially inadequate..............But I will say Hello to TinyFish shirts and if it's not you then I will hide!
 P-C |
sigod wrote:Posted By: Prog.Sylvie
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 09:33
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Have fun guys to this prog.fest. Believe me, after two days of music, you will be drained. I experienced it on the 15 and 16 of september at our prog.fest here. It's fun, but really draining. It's worthed the price and the effort. ------------- C'est la vie |
Posted By: Prog.Sylvie
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 09:34
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Have fun girls too. I should have written, girls and guys. Sorry ! ------------- C'est la vie |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 23:28
 I found you in the end! I was embarrassed to say hello. I knew who you were straight away, but I just couldn't approach you... but somehow I started chatting to you. Sigod, she doesn't bite (unless provoked), so don't worry. Just don't start chatting about how much you dislike Pat Metheny (I don't even know if you dislike him!), or she'll bite your head off! -------------   
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 23:51
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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". ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Lambsie
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 05:26
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As I have learned, if you want decent music in your part of the world..organise your own festival!
It all kicks off in a few mins, cos I'm off to Stansted to pick up White Willow.
See some of you tomorrow!
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 08:57
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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!!!
WOOOHOOOO!
Right............. now I have to dig out a pile of sleeping bags!
See you lucky attendees tomorrow!
(and for those of you who have been sitting on the fence..........I think there are still some tickets left, so throw caution to the wind and come down to Bilston tomorrow.......... if we don't support this fantastic event, we will all sit around saying "there are no good Prog-fests in the UK!)
See ta's tomorrow!
P-C
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 07:13
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Ladies and gents Just got back and it was a great festival. Real highlights for me were Pendragon (obviously), The Flower Kings and Pure Reason Revolution all of whom ablsolutely rocked my world. A big thank you to Huw from Also Eden (who put in a fantastic set on the Sunday night) for organising the event. I think what he did was marvellous. Well done sir.  It was great to meet so many people (and our very own Prog Chick ) and to all of the bands who put the time and effort in to make it a weekend to remember.Thanks also to F2 and Sonic Bond who put together such tempting CD stalls, I now have many hours of happy listening ahead of me (although I cannot afford to buy any more CDs or DVDs for the next 20 years  ).I'll post some photos of the event as soon as I get time to download them from my camera. ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Lambsie
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 07:27
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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!
I pressed a lot of flesh (ooeerrr) over the two days, and had so many shouted conversations over the PA my voice had completely gone by the Sunday night.
Great to meet Prog-chick - looking good on the tellybox yesterday morning, too!
It would be wrong for me to single out bands, but I blubbed shamelessly during White Willow - cos having them there meant a lot to me - but everyone gave the festival their all!
Cheers.
Stephen
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 15:04
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I can concur that it was a blinkin MARVELLOUS weekend........... I only intended to be there on the Saturday......... got home in the wee small hours of Sunday........slept for oh....about 2 hours......... got up, made coffee......... looked at the agenda for Sunday.........and we blinkin well went back it was so good!!!
Stephen & Huw did a remarkable job!
I met some lovely people........... and one or two less lovely (but funny none-the-less
 People!) Pleased to report that Sigod was in the first category!!! (thanks for not letting on that I am more of an old crone than a chick!
 ) I got a pile of new cd's to play, I got to see PRR (I must admit to have done some nagging about that!) and some lovely ..er..........."things" which I bought from the delightful hippies in the corner!
I have seen grumbles about sound/smoke/bands/merch/bum wiping facilities etc etc on other forums....... and I think some folk are just the sort to like a blinkin good moan and forget all the excellent points of a weekend! Personally I think it was TOP STUFF! (and some folk are just down right mean...)
So I managed to see 9 of the 12 bands in two days, and I think this festival has serious legs....I thoroughly recommend it to anyone with the stamina for next years fest!!!
Hello to all of you I met, and bar-hoo-sucks to those of you who stayed home! (apart from Geck0 who wanted to go but had car trubbs..........poor s*d!)
 Prog-Chick
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 23:20
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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. -------------
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 17:56
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Well here they are (in no particular order). These are all the photos that are halfway decent from my budget camera. All apologies to the two Johns (Beck and Mitchell) but the photos I took of their set were just rubbish (unlike their performance which was excellent) so I haven't included them in here. This might take a moment or two to upload... Trude Eidtang from White Willow  Strangefish  Guy Manning  Ezra  Declan Burke from Darwin's Radio  Credo  Also Eden  Pure Reason Revolution  Nick Barrett and Clive Nolan of Pendragon  The Flower Kings  Stephen, very sorry for missing you out on the thanks. Both Huw and your good self put in a lot of work for this and it was very much appreciated. ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: proggz
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 18:08
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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 ------------- currently listening to:- Shakary 2006 Brother Ape - Shangri-la King Eider - somateria spectabilis Moira Falls - The long goodbye www.progboys.com |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 18:26
Now he tells me! Funnily enough, I'm a big, big Pat Metheny fan. I wish I'd know that at the time as we could have had one of those geeky fan discussions about the merits of his ECM vs his Geffen period. Actually, I've just bored myself by mentioning it.  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 18:34
Likewise Prog Chick, it was great meeting you too (and indeed a big shout of 'huzzah!' to all the band members who took time out to have a natter). ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 19:14
Great pics Simon,looks like a great weekend. 
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Posted By: Lambsie
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 19:16
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Ooohh...thanks for the good wishes, guys - it's midnight on Thursday, and I STILL haven't come down, really....
I've posted some of my own photos HERE...
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/[email protected]/my_photos - http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/[email protected]/my_photos
Hope you like em!
Stephen
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 03:23
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Nick Barrett made a few comments about the weekend in his latest ramblings.........
http://www.pendragon.mu/forum/viewforum.php?f=24&sid=699f27d205e945f0aa99cde8bc3e685a - http://www.pendragon.mu/forum/viewforum.php?f=24&sid=699f27d205e945f0aa99cde8bc3e685a
right can't say any more because I want to check out these photos!!!!
Later..............
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 03:31
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Great pics guys!
I have been entertaining myself replaying some of the video i shot.......... if an when it hits YouTube I'll post a link!
No, sorry progz........ not on commission........... PRR are superb though! and that DVD is something spesh too!!!
I didn't know the beer was cheaper in the other bar......... I used that bar just cos most of the time it was quieter.......although I did sit in there with a group of blokes who asked me to join them, then spent some time running down Pendragon BEFORE we did introductions..........
P0-C
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: October 08 2006 at 16:02
Oops! ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Lambsie
Date Posted: October 20 2006 at 14:10
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Hi All Well - you've requested them, so here they are! We are pleased to present - by popular demand - The Summers End Festival 2006 T-shirt! This is a strictly limited edition, produced to help towards the costs of the 2006 festival (which didn't break even in the end). If you were there - or if you wish you had been - then this will be a fashion accessory you can't do without! Printed on high quality cotton, the T-shirts come in one colour - White - with the Summers End 06 logo on the front, and the list of bands on the back. See the pictures at http://www.sonicbond.com/ - www.sonicbond.com for further details. The T-shirts will be on sale for 2 weeks only from Thursday 19th October until Thursday November 2nd, and will be manufactured to order, to be despatched within 28 days. Sizes are: Men - Small, Medium, large, Extra large and extra extra large Women (standard T-shirt, not a "skinny") - Small, medium, large The T-shirts are offered exclusively through Sonicbond -the direct link is at: http://www.sonicbond.com/prodtype.asp?PT_ID=383&strPageHistory=cat - http://www.sonicbond.com/prodtype.asp?PT_ID=383&strPageHistory=cat The £15.50 includes standard postage and packing within the UK. All other postage is charged at the standard Sonicbond rates. Thanks Huw and Stephen |