Sunday, May 09, 2010

Sweeping The Nation Presents... #7

While we recover from the non-partying around the STN birthday celebrations and start to get develop some good ideas, we might as well tell you about our next live gig even though you don't come to them and it's ages away. It's a special one, though, being an Indietracks Festival warm-up. For it we're temporarily moving to the bigger Leicester Musician, where on 22nd July we intend to present...


By Rachael Smith

MJ Hibbett & The Validators
The only non-Indietracks full band public gig this year (we think) by the indiepop bard of Peterborough, just before he takes his one-man rock opera Dinosaur Planet to the Edinburgh Fringe.



Standard Fare
Some say they're indiepop's breakout band of the year. What we can definitely state is The Noyelle Beat is a superb work.



Lime Chalks
Birmingham outfit who, they say, "play indiefolklofipop or whatever you'd care to call it, and their philosophy is thus: cheerfulness, melodiousness, harmoniousness!"




As usual it'll be £4 online or £5 on the door. Register your interest on Facebook or last.fm, why not.

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Inflation rates

We did this last year, but given the explosion in UK festivals is first said to have started leaking crucial fluids in 2007 it seems a good time to take stock. Hence, this table - this is how much a single adult camping ticket for pretty much every major festival in the land costs you now and would have cost you three years ago.

































































































































































































































Festival 2007 price 2010 price % rise
Glastonbury £145 £190 31.0
Reading £145 £180 24.1
T In The Park £140 £180 28.6
Download £145 £170 17.2
V £130 £165 26.9
ATP £120 £160 33.3
Big Chill £125 £155 24
Latitude £112 £155 38.4
Isle Of Wight £125 £150 20
Bestival £115 £150 30.4
Rock Ness £100 £149 49
Secret Garden Party £110 £142 29.1
Glade £110 £135 22.7
End Of The Road £95 £130 36.8
Wakestock £75 £120 60
Green Man £98 £120 22.4
Global Gathering £105 £120 14.3
Cornbury £90 £115 27.7
Summer Sundae £90 £113.50 26.1
Guilfest £100 £110 10
Wychwood £95 £110 15.8
Cambridge Folk £95 £108 13.7
Creamfields £57 £100 75.4
Beautiful Days £90 £100 11.1
Lounge On The Farm £50 £95 60
Solfest £59 £89 50.8
Wickerman £65 £85 30.8
Belladrum £70 £85 21.4
Lovebox (weekend) £60 £80 33.3
Truck £55 £80 45.5
Moseley Folk £42 £77 83.3
Camden Crawl £45 £57 26.7
The Great Escape £39.50 £55 39.2
Wireless (one day) £40 £47 17.5
Field Day £22.50 £33.33 48.1
Underage £20 £29.50 47.5