Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Festival Three

Vans Warped Tour 

Vans Warped Tour is a tour festival that travels all across Americas states instead of being at one place. As america is a large country they have roughly 44 events within 30 states of America. Tour dates start from 9th April till 15th August. The festival holds many music tents as well as main stage tent and various stalls around the festival. They have a huge list of with around 134 guests confirmed for the tour in 2010 varying from You me at six, The all american rejects, Enter Shikari, Suicide Silence, Polar bear club, Attack Attack and After Midnight Project. The sort of Audience this tour festival will attract is those interested in, 'Emo', 'Heavy' and 'Screamo' Music. Warped Tour is sponsored by Vans and a further 52 companies including Myspace, Fuse, Monster energy, Skull Candy and Wonka. Also tickets help fund the Warped Tour.

http://www.vanswarpedtour.com/warpedtour/index.asp

Festival two

Strawberry Fair Cambridge

The Strawberry Fair is held on the first saturday of every June and it is found at Cambridge's Midsummer Common in the town centre. The festival holds a various amount of stalls, Performance stages, Children's tents and alcohol tents. The festival is free and is about Music, Theatre, Art and crafts. The festival is for any ages, Children, Young people and mainly teenagers and young people than the older generation. The strawberry fair is a volunteered festival run by Cambridge residents. The Strawberry Fair can hold thousands of people throughout the day as it is an open event anyone can attend and leave when they wish. 

http://www.strawberry-fair.org.uk/




Festival One

Reading!

Reading Festival is held every year around Augusts bank holiday weekend. This year for 2010 the festival is on from 27th August till the 29th August. The Festival is he
ld at Richfield Avenue, Reading, UK. The festival has a variety of line up bands and various tents that bands will be playing in, Such as a main tent and little tents for those acts that aren't as big that would play on the main stage. There are seven stages throughout Reading Festival. Artists that would play on main stage would vary from bands such as Paramore, Blink 182, Lost prophets & Dizzee rascal. Acts that would perform on the little stages would be acts such as Enter Shikari, Klaxons and Foals. The festival is for those who enjoy the whole Festival outing, Those who are interested in any of the line up acts playing but most of all for the people that enjoy 'indie', 'heavy' and 'hip-hop' acts. 

Some of Reading is funded through volunteers that agree to help out at the Festival, For this the age is 18+ and will have to be able to follow strict rules such as arriving on time for meetings about the work you will be covering and to report to your supervisor every 2 hours on shift to tell if needed what has happened or happening danger or emergency wise. Most of the festivals funding is from tickets and entry fees and sponsors. They are supported by BBC Radio One, NME, Tuborg, Gaymers, Pepsi Max, Relentless and viagogo. 

Below is a poster of this years line up and a print screen on Reading 2010's official website. 

http://www.readingfestival.com/home/

Friday, 23 April 2010

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