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Festival 2005
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This year's Kelvedon Free Music Festival - our 10th anniversary - took place on Saturday 12th July 2008. Another massive crowd enjoyed an afternoon in the park being entertained by some of the best live music around in Essex.
The Festval was headlined by the fantastic EDDIE & THE HOTRODS.
Other acts were :
| SALTDOG |
EXPOSÉ |
| ABSENT KID |
THE COMMITTED |
| SONGS FROM THE BLUE HOUSE |
RELAY |
| DRUMMER HATES JAZZ |
BOUDICA RIO SAMBA |
| KARILLA |
CURLY CIRCUS |
| THE KURU SMILE |
SURFQUAKE |
| ADRIAN NATION |
TAKOMA STAR |
| BRITISH STANDARD |
COLLISION THEORY |
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  Main Stage photos - A huge thanks goes to Jillian Forsyth and Richard Brown for supplying this years batch of photos - great work! You can view the gallery here
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| Unfortunately, Travellor have had to drop out of this year's Festival, but we have managed to secure the services of the excellent Adrian Nation and a big thank you goes out to Adrian for stepping in at the last minute. |
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Drummer Hates Jazz are the winners of this year's Battle of the Bands and go on as the opening act at the Music Festival on 12 July.
A crowd of nearly 200 squeezed into Kelvedon Institute to cheer on the five competing bands in what proved to be the highest standard of competition we have experienced to date. The other bands were Scorpio Toy from Tiptree and Colchester, Collision Theory from Kelvedon and Feering, and Colchester bands, Your Revolution and Her Morning Eyes. Each one of these bands would have been worthy winners.
Arthur Smith, who helped organise the contest, said: "This year was the highest level of music I've heard for Battle of the Bands. There was a really good atmosphere and the place was packed.” Judges included Charles Hedger, guitarist from Cradle of Filth, Alison Taffs, from the band Relay based in Witham, as well as Chris and Micky from Essex Rocks.
The band later commented, "There was tough competition. I never thought in a million years we would be doing this." |
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Festival 2007 was held on Saturday, 14 July at the Kelvedon Recreation Ground from 12.00pm – 7.30pm and was a huge success! Roll on next year!
 A huge thanks goes to Jillian Forsyth, Troy Parr and Ann Fisher for supplying this years batch of photos - great work! You can view the gallery here.
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| Well, that's it for another year! The ninth annual Kelvedon Free Music Festival was an absolutely fantastic success - with quite probably the biggest crowd to date. Thanks to everyone who showed up! The weather was glorious, the music was excellent and the traffic in Kelvedon High Street was utter chaos - we even got a mention on BBC Radio 1 travel news! Check back soon for a full report... |
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 The Kelvedon Free Music Festival is once again the subject of a BBC Essex feature - where this year's headline act, John Otway is interviewed - highlighting his confidence in the British weather for the big day. Great to see the festival getting so much coverage - let's hope it helps draw the biggest crowd yet. Make sure you're there! |
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| In addition to our after festival party with the Rockin' Armadillos at the Kelvedon Labour Club, we now have a pre-festy bash as well! Simon at The Angel, St Mary's Square, Kelvedon has booked the excellent covers band Replica to play on the evening of Friday 13th July. Surely the best way to warm up for this years' festival?! |
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 We're delighted to announce Boudica Rio Samba as a late addition to this year's lineup. Boudica is Colchester's very own community Samba Bloco, founded in June 2005. They follow the traditions of authentic Rio culture and embrace Samba as a multi faceted art form, paying homage to their direct Brazilian roots. Boudica will be joining us for two 15 minute slots in front of the main stage at 2.20pm and 3.15pm. |
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| In a change to the Shutupfool Stage lineup, Cleavage will sadly no longer be playing at this year's Festival. Fortunately, it's been easy to fill their slot with numerous bands waiting in the wings for such an opening. The lucky ones this time round are Spiral Circuit, who now fill the 15:30 slot. If you've downloaded the old poster you can download an updated version here. |
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 As per last year, we've made the Kelvedon Free Music Festival 2007 poster available for download - see the section on the right of the website or click here to download the PDF (340k). Print it out and plaster it in your window/shop/car/caravan etc - all publicity is good publicity, but please try and ensure good prints! Thanks... |
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| After this years Festival on 14th July, the fun continues at the Kelvedon Labour Club - just across the road from the Recreation Ground - where the Rockin' Armadillos will be playing from 9.00pm. Visit their website for more details on the group. Hopefully we'll see you there as the Festival atmosphere continues into the night! |
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| As the festival has grown year by year, so have the costs, overheads and health and safety requirements. It is getting harder and harder to keep on top of these so to keep this festival free we need your support! For more details of our support opportunities please click here. |
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