The first-ever End Of The Road Festival is all but upon us, so what better time for a wee update on the line-up and stuff...
Organised without any major corporate sponsorship, the event takes place between the 15 - 17th September at Larmer Tree Gardens, on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset, near Stonehenge/Salisbury. More information about travel/tickets/etc can be found at the festival's offical website, here.
Confirmed acts (so far) include...
Ryan Adams (his first-ever UK festival date, pictured), Badly Drawn Boy, British Sea Power, Howe Gelb, James Yorkston, Kathryn Williams, Richard Hawley, Darren Hayman, Charlie Parr, Pink Mountaintops, Semifinalists, Jim Noir, Kelley Stoltz, Josh Ritter, Memory Band, El Perro Del Mar, David Thomas Broughton, Simple Kid, Brakes, Ed Hardcourt, Electric Soft Parade, My Latest Novel, Absentee, Boy Least Likely To, Superthriller, Gravenhurst, Ralfe Band, Boy Omega, Dawn Landes, The Bright Space, Chris T-T, Crosbi, Ladyfuzz, Rose Kemp, Tilly and the Wall, Jeremy Warmsley, Paris Motel, Barbarossa, Flipron, Stuffy & the Fuses, Dan Arborise, Gethin Pearson & the Scenery, Merz, Holly Golightly, Metronomy, The Guilemots,Things in Herds, Hush the Many, Uncle John & Whitlock, Emmy the Great, M Craft, Sunny Day Sets Fire, Archie Bronson Outfit, Magic Car
The 5,000-capacity event has its own MySpace page, here. As well as bands, attendees can enjoy organic foods and ales (gooood) and staff that don't pick their noses and flick boogers in your beer. Which is nice. Tickets are £95, which includes camping - click here to purchase.
all of those cuddly moderate bands
on one bill - i think i'd snooze through the whole event.
I'm not against most of the bands, just the amorphous blob quality of the bill. i think it will undermine most of them, as they fade into one and other...
hmmm, maybe...
...but the more I read about this, the more I think 'yeah'.
Howe Gelb = brilliant.
Kelley Stoltz = brilliant.
My Latest Novel = brilliant.
Although, granted, there are a few sound-alikes in there...
hmm
when i saw my latest novel they were totally upstaged by semi finalists. that is a fact.
this looks like fun though. ooo
it's a brilliant line-up
if it wasn't for a gig here, I'd be totally there. Oh, and the £95 tickets :(
£95 isn't expensive, in comparison...
...to most three-dayers.
Gawd I'm starting to sound like I'm running this thing...
miss squirrel!!
Do you want me to see if you can be one of mine again?
Yawn yawn yawn
I'm instantly switching off when reading a festival lineup and it says British Sea Power. Besides that, I don't recognise half the artists listed here, and most of those are solo singers. Seems an awful lot of them for a festival. I'm guessing there's not going to be an acoustic guitar shortage...
This looks good, however
15 - 17th September?
Aren't they chancing it weather-wise?
RYAN ADAMS!!!!
Has just confirmed as a headliner...it's going to be a uk exclusive and his first uk festival appearance!
as for the weather, only the main stage is 'uncovered' as far as i can work out....
ans suburban kids with biblical names are playing too. Who some smart alec will doubtless say 'theyre riding on the peter bjorn and john bandwagon'...well, there not. so there.....hmmm sorry for the petulance.
um
didnt he play glastonbury?
Nope
he cancelled last year
Why do you switch off when you hear British Sea Power mentioned?
Is it because you're dead inside? Or are you allergic to leaves?
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does anyone know
whether or not there are still places left to steward at this. i really want to go, but i dont have 95 quid, and cant justify selling my leeds ticket to go to a festival that none of my mates are going to. i want to go so much though. argh.
oops
i forgot a question mark there. silly.
if you're going
please see josh ritter. please. the man is a genius and a complete joy to see live. you'd be insane to miss him. (also, uncle john & whitlock? no idea who they are but my dad's called john whitlock...)
Oh my god
Richard off Big Brother looks exactly like Ryan Adams with no hair :|
are
DiS the main sponsors?
no i hear you cry, it's a sponsor free event! Anyway, no bands worth seeing apart from guillemots at a glance.