Two Thousand Trees Festival
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The 2000trees festival is an award-winning independent music festival dedicated to bringing together the best new and underground British music for one weekend every July, held at Upcote Farm, Withington, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.[1] It offers a diverse selection of more than 80 acts on four stages, plus comedy, trader village,and the very popular outdoor headphone disco. It also won the Grass Roots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards 2010. .[2]
2000trees was started by six friends in 2007, who grew tired of being made to pay too much at other festivals to see the bands they love. They decided to create a value for money alternative, which also raises awareness of environmental concerns.[3]
The Festival is known for its cheap weekend tickets that will be under £60 in 2011. The festival usually hosts around 3,500 people and therefore there is little mud and it is easy to place your tent.
There is also a comprehensive environmental policy which includes electricity generated with locally sourced biofuel (recycled chip fat), onsite recycling (66 per cent in 2007) and locally sourced food and drink where possible. Plus green travel schemes that save you money the greener you are in your travel plans. [4]
The festival has performances on four stages: Tree House (main stage), The Cave (new second stage), the Leaf Lounge (acoustic stage), and the Greenhouse, but organisers say much more is planned for 2011.
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[edit] Past acts
[edit] 2007
[edit] 2008
- Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
- Art Brut
- Frank Turner
- The King Blues
- The Duke Spirit
- These New Puritans
- Future of the Left
- Slaves to Gravity
- The Ghost of a Thousand
- In Case of Fire
- Tubelord
[edit] 2009
- British Sea Power
- Fightstar
- Red Light Company
- The King Blues
- Amplifier
- Dananananaykroyd
- Sucioperro
- Wild Beasts
- Rolo Tomassi
- Attack! Attack!
- The Chapman Family
- SixNationState
- Godsized
[edit] 2010
- The Subways
- Frank Turner
- Bombay Bicycle Club
- 65daysofstatic
- Metronomy
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Future of the Left
- The Xcerts
- Three Trapped Tigers
- Johnny Flynn
- Errors
- Sonic Boom Six
- Vessels
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- Tubelord
[edit] 2011
- Frightened Rabbit
- Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
- The King Blues
- Sucioperro
- Los Campesinos!
- Japanese Voyeurs
- Mojo Fury
- Twin Atlantic
- Tellison
- Devil Sold His Soul
- Amplifier
- Maybeshewill
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- Ellen and the Escapades
- The Twilight Sad
- Exit Ten
- Malefice
- Your Demise
- Islet
[edit] 2012
- 65daysofstatic
- Gallows
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Rolo Tomassi
- Tellison
- Turbowolf
- Dog Is Dead
- Sharks
- The Xcerts
- Johnny Foreigner
- We Were Promised Jetpacks
- Max Raptor
- Spy Catcher
[edit] References
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- ^ http://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk (Feb 2008)
- ^ http://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk/info
[edit] External links
- Official 2000trees Festival website: http://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk
- BBC article on small festivals, featuing 2000trees Festival: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12088992
