Beautiful Days (festival)
This article is about the music festival. For other uses, see Beautiful Days (disambiguation).
The Beautiful Days is a music festival that takes place in August at Escot Park, Ottery St Mary, Devon. The festival is organised by The Levellers and was first held in 2003.
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[edit] 2011 Lineup
[edit] Main Stage
The Levellers, Carter USM, Big Audio Dynamite, Gogol Bordello, Flogging Molly, I Am Kloot, Pop Will Eat Itself, Stereo MCs, The Jim Jones Revue, Paul Heaton, The Blockheads, Divokej Bill, The Beat, Afro Celt Sound System, Hugh Cornwell, Gentleman's Dub Club, Skinny Lister, Ben Howard, The Mob, Backbeat Sound System, The Strange Death of Liberal England, Wolf People, New Groove Formation, Mojo Fury. [1]
[edit] The Big Top
Oysterband The Low Anthem Salsa Celtica Roddy Woomble John Grant 4 Men And A Dog Lau Eddie Reader The Bad Shepherds Dizraeli and The Small Gods Jackie Oates Teddy Thompson Alabama 3 Tim Minchin James Yorkston Rory McLeod The Young Coppers Dan Donnelly Levellers Acoustic Sheelanagig Sean Lakeman & Kathryn Roberts Caroline Herring Dave McPherson Dogan & The Deerhunters Sean Taylor Fabulous Good Time Party Boys
[edit] The Bimble Inn
JB and The Backline, Melosa, Jim Lockey, Griffs Majic Theatre, Joana & The Wolf, Cained & Able, Hawkwind DJ Set, The Summertides, Dog Daisy, Rachel Sermanni, Jess Hall Band, Lasting Days, The Maybirds, Leatherat, Mad Dog McRea, Ferocious Dog, The Big V, Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs, Ahab, True Blue, Winter Mountain, King Charles, Pike On A Bike.
[edit] 2010 Lineup
[edit] Main Stage
The Wailers, Newton Faulkner, Easy Star All-Stars, Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs, James, New Model Army, British Sea Power, Show of Hands, The Alarm, The Wurzels, Tankus The Henge, The Last Republic, 63High, Levellers, Dreadzone, African Head Charge, The Popes, The Aggrolites, The Slackers, Citizen Fish, Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends.[2]
[edit] Big Top
Fairport Acoustic Convention Neds Atomic Dustbin Duke Special Thomas White Nick Harper Uiscedwr Levellers Acoustic Bellowhead Arthur Brown 3 Daft Monkeys Babylon Circus Wilko Johnson Seth Lakeman Boppin B Kathryn Williams Lupen Crook Gaz Brookfield Shooglenifty Billy Bragg Stornoway Dervish John Otway's Big Band The Destroyers Kassidy Ian King The Fabulous Good Time Party Boys
[edit] Little Big Top
Krafty Kuts Stereo MCs (DJ Set) Foamo Ben & Lex DJ Andromeda James Gill DonJohnston Subfocus & MC ID Adam F Mr Nice Maxxi P Warrior One Lewah Fred V & Grafix Attila the Stockbroker Doozer Brian Damage & Krystal Woody Lee Hils Barker Liam Mullone Pierre Hollins Paddy Lennox Trash City Soundsystem Howard Marks Mitch Benn Paul Pirie Rich Allen Gareth Berliner Ian Cognito Dan Cardwell Debra Jane Appleby Del Strain Sully O'Sullivan Don Letts (DJ Set)
[edit] Dirty Davie's Bandstand
British Sea Power 'Men of Arran' Waiting for Bono Jackie Juno Hypnotique Whitestar Stars in the Making? Phoebe Peek & Oscar Hesmondhalgh Red Dirt Murray Lachlan Young Don Letts (DJ Set) The Agitator Thomas Truax John Callaghan Olly B Whitestar Jail House Doors Open Mic Q&A John Robb & Mark Chadwick Q&A John Robb & Penny Rimbauld Q&A John Robb & Don Letts Murray Lachlan Young Theremin Workshop DJ Herman Funkster John Cooper Clarke Laura Dockrill Kagemusha Taiko Fancy Dress Awards Troubadour Q&A John Robb & Kerry McCarthy Q&A John Robb & Poly Styrene (Poly Styrene was unable to attend due to ill health and was replaced at the last minute by Howard Marks)[3] Q&A John Robb & Billy Bragg Bike Shed Theatre Company
[edit] 2009 Lineup
[edit] Main Stage
Headlining the main stage in 2009 were Hawkwind, The Pogues, and The Levellers. Other acts included, on Friday: Dreadzone, The King Blues, and Sonic Boom Six. On Saturday: The Saw Doctors, The Wonder Stuff, Dub Pistols, Les Truttes, Edward II, Pronghorn, Will and the People, Mozzy Green (Winner of the Unsigned Band Review competition). On Sunday: Lamb, Gong, The Living End, Frank Turner, Subhumans, Hatcham Social, and Greg McDonald.
[edit] The Big Top
Headlining the big top were Seth Lakeman, The Imagined Village, and The Blockheads. Other acts included, on Friday: The Broken Family Band, Imelda May, Chris While & Julie Matthews, and Jim Moray with the Levellers opening the festival with an acoustic set. On Saturday: Swans in Flight, The Peatbog Faeries, The Kris Drever, John McCusker & Roddy Woomble trio, Lau, Kissmet, The Martin Harley Band, Ruarri Joseph, Jay Jay Pistolet, and Dirty Scavenger (Winner of the Acoustic Magazine competition).
On Sunday, Cara Dillon, Eliza Carthy, Babar Luck, Chris TT, Melo Park, Ashley Hicklin, and The Fabulous Good Time Party Boys.
[edit] 2008 lineup
[edit] The Main Stage
Headlining the main stage at the festival in 2008 were Squeeze, Supergrass and The Levellers. Other live acts playing included Alabama 3, Nouvelle Vague, comedian Ross Noble, Turin Brakes, Stiff Little Fingers, Gabriella Cilmi, Oysterband, Zion Train, Seth Lakeman, Eat Static, Fishbone, Justin Sullivan, Frank Turner, Balkan Beat Box, Xavier Rudd, Salsa Celtica, Damien Dempsey, The Rhythmites, Sheelanagig, Nick Harper, Divokej Bill and Dennis Hopper Choppers.
Added to the bill (2 May emailshot) are Cage the Elephant(no-show), Flogging Molly, Idlewild, Pama International, Kathryn Williams & Neil Maccoll, 12 Stone Toddler, Transglobal Underground, HYBRID, Dengue Fever, Sancho Panza Soundsystem, Megson, Tofu Love Frogs, New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack, Enter the Haggis and Blood or Whiskey.
[edit] The Bimble Inn
The Bimble Inn hosted performances by amongst others The Beetroot Kings and Nuala & The Alchemy Quartet.
[edit] Dance Tent
Spoken word performances from Arthur Smith, John Cooper Clarke(no-show), Richard Digance, Attila The Stockbroker, Mark Dolan (compere Scarey Dave), Joolz Denby, Charlie Ottley and Dr Dawson's Boogie Band. JCC's no-show was saved by regular Beautiful Days characters Hobo Jones and the Junkyard Dogs' amazing performance, amongst their several other roaming and highly popular sets.
[edit] 2007 lineup
KT Tunstall headlined Friday night, Gogol Bordello on Saturday, and as traditionally, festival organisers The Levellers, closed it on Sunday.
3 Daft Monkeys (late replacement for Fishbone) / Afro Celt Sound System / Babyhead / Back To The Planet / Bellowhead / Ben Taylor / Bill Bailey / Carrie Tree / Daddy Ho! / Dreadzone / Dub Pistols / Easy Star All Stars / Electric Soft Parade / Elite Force / The Fabulous Good Time Party Boys / Gogol Bordello / Great Big Sea / Groove Diggerz / Hey Negrita / Hobo Jones & the Junkyard Dogs / Howard Marks / Hybrid / Jamie Catto / Kíla / Levellers / McDermotts Two Hours / Misnoma / Mr Hudson & the Library / Nemo Jones / New Model Army / Passenger / Radical Dance Faction (RDF) / Rennie Pilgrem / Ruarri Joseph / Sean Rowley’s Guilty Pleasures / School of Trobar / Show of Hands / The Damned / The Men They Couldn't Hang / The Rumble Strips / Vincent Vincent and the Villains / War Machines of Love / Whirl-Y-Gig with Banco De Gaia and Gaudi / Willy Mason / Zombie Met Girl
[edit] 2006 lineup
[edit] Main Stage & Big Top
3 Daft Monkeys, Benji Kirkpatrick, Bleeding Hearts, Buzzcocks, Cara Dillon, Chumbawamba Acoustic, Damien Dempsey, Dan Donnelly and Sonovagun, Divokej Bill, Dhol Foundation, Drunk In Public, Dylan Moran, Echo & the Bunnymen, Eighteenth Day of May, Gomez, Hayseed Dixie, Hugh Cornwell, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Killing Joke, King Creosote, Larry Love, Showband, Levellers, Lunasa, Mark Saul, Neck, Nick Harper, Ox, The Fabulous Good Time Party Boys Medicine Show Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting Revue, Seth Lakeman, Steel Pulse, Subgiant, The Coal Porters, The Crimea, The Demon Barber Roadshow, The Proclaimers, The Selecter, The Toretz, Tiny Tin Lady
[edit] Little Big Top
Barry Scratchy Myers (Clash tour DJ), Beatz & Bobz, Ben & Lex, Dib Dub, DIY, Freq Nasty, Krafty Kuts, Nick Mannaseh, Pama International
[edit] External links
- Official site
- 2004 line up
- 2005 line up
- Review at Efestivals
- Review at The Third Estate
- Entry at Virtual Festivals
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.beautifuldays.org/artists/xi
- ^ www.beautifuldays.org/artists/x
- ^ I was there when it happened
