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This is our brand new design for 2012. They will be available in white but come in various sizes. They will be available to purchase at our Quest for the Fest Event on 12th May and at the Festival. |
Festival 2010 Part 2
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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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KELVEDON FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012 IS CANCELLED |
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 It is with great regret that we have to announce the cancellation of the Kelvedon Free Music Festival this year. Essex Police informed us only in late April that they had concerns around the safety of the event based on the plans submitted to them as part of our licensing application; these plans were entirely consistent with those successfully submitted in prior years. Representatives from the organising committee met with the Police, the Transport Police, the Fire Brigade and the District Council on Wednesday 9th May to discuss how the concerns raised might be addressed. However, with only 2 months to go, we have neither the time nor, more importantly, resources to address all the points they now expect us to under their revised approach to events such as this.
We fully endorse the desire to ensure the Festival is as safe as it can possibly be and we have always worked towards that; unfortunately, this year, we are unable to meet the external requirements for that and we have come to the decision we have with a heavy heart. Please accept our apologies if you are an artist, stallholder or other participant in the Festival and you are hearing this for the first time, your usual contact will be in touch with you imminently to discuss next steps.
It is too early to say what will be possible for next year, we will consider that in the coming months although it is quite clear that we will not be able to proceed on the same basis we have previously. Thank you to all who have supported us over the past 13 years and made the Kelvedon Free Music Festival one of the most successful of its kind. |
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A huge thanks goes to Jonathan Doyle for supplying this years batch of photos - great work! You can view the gallery here.
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A BIG THANK YOU from the organisers |
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A massive thanks to this year's performers - on the main stage: The Blockheads, Automatic Slim, Exposé, Surfquake, Housework, About Eight, Who's Driving? Bear's Driving! and Broken Heads - you were all amazing. And on the Essex Rocks stage - We Are Embassy, Gulls, Animal Noise, the Strangerhood, Drive Through Therapy, the Jorneta Stream, the 633 and the Overwrought.
What an amazing crowd - you guys rock - we hope you all had a ...great time.Thanks for everyone involved in the clean up last night and this morning; looks like a recreation ground again. Kelvfest is a family friendly event for our village to be proud of, and is run by volunteers, supported by local sponsors – a big thank you to each & every one of you for making the festival possible.
Special mention to Event Sound & Light for the superb sound quality. To Tony & Lloyd for MC-ing. To the backstage crew and stewards - you are the unsung heroes. To Sally & her team in the bar, incredible job, and to all of you who bought your drinks from the bar... you are the guys who have ensured we have the money to go ahead next year. And thanks to everyone we've forgotten to mention; luv ya!
WHAT A GREAT DAY... pics to follow soon |
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To everyone going to Kelvedon Festival. |
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We hope you all have a wonderful time at the 13th Kelvedon Free Music Festival. All the bands are raring to go, and there are lots of other attractions and activities to keep you all entertained throughout the day. Kelvfest is a family friendly event for our village to be proud of, and is run by volunteers, supported by local sponsors – a big thank you to them all for making the festival possible.
Please do your bit to support our festival. Buy your drinks at our beer tent, put money in the donation buckets and have a look at our merchandising in the information tent. Without your support each year, it would not be possible for us to continue to stage a free festival.
Most of all let’s make this a top day for everyone. Respect each other, keep the event family friendly, and drink responsibly.
Get up and dance, and HAVE A GREAT DAY.
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| With little over a month to the festival, one of our main stage bands split up so had to pull out. After many frantic phone calls, and within 24 hours of the cancellation, we were able to announce that the slot has been filled by WHO'S DRIVING? BEAR'S DRIVING! Not only a cool local addition to the line up, but also an incredible high quality much revered Scuzz-tastic band! Thanks AJ, thanks lads! Link |
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 JOIN US at various gigs on the ROAD TO KELVEDON … raising funds for the 2011 Kelvedon Free Music Festival
Thursday 16th June
Essex Rocks @ the Soundhouse, Colchester.
Thursday 23rd June
Essex Rocks @ the Soundhouse, Colchester.
Saturday 2nd July
Essex Rocks 5th birthday @ Colchester Arts Centre
with Cav OK, Wae and support.
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2011 Battle of The Bands - Update |
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Congratulations to Broken Heads, winners of the 2011 Kelvedon Festival Battle of the Bands competition.
On Friday 4th March five local bands competed for the honour of opening this year's festival. As before, the standard was amazingly high, but Colchester based post punk/indie four piece Broken Heads emerged as popular winners, despite a broken bass drum! They will play a half hour slot on the main stage on Saturday 9th July.
Thank you to the other four competing bands for making the competition so enjoyable:
Ninety-Three ('93)
Infuriate
Forgetting the Fallen
Keep ‘em Keen
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Kelvedon Festival 2011 is on Saturday 9th July
We are proud to announce that this year's headliners are THE BLOCKHEADS With a string of classics including Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Reasons to be Cheerful and Billericay Dickie, the Blockheads promise to be our biggest and best band to date.
They will be ably supported by AUTOMATIC SLIM *** EXPOSÉ *** HOUSEWORK *** BROKEN HEADS *** SURFQUAKE *** ABOUT EIGHT *** compered by TONY WINN
The Essex Rocks stage will again feature eight of the county's finest rock bands... THE GULLS *** the633 *** THE STRANGERHOOD *** DRIVE THROUGH THERAPY *** ANIMAL NOISE *** THE JORNETA STREAM *** THE OVERWROUGHT *** WE ARE EMBASSY
STOP PRESS!... and a big thanks to WHO'S DRIVING? BEAR'S DRIVING!, who have stepped in to complete the main stage line up - THANK YOU and BIG LOVE! |
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More photos of Festival 2010 |
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| A huge thanks goes to Foggyhat for supplying this batch of photos - great work! You can view the gallery here. |
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Kelvedon Free Music Festival 2010 |
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Festival 2010 - Photos and Video |
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A huge thanks goes to Jonathan Doyle for supplying this years batch of photos - great work! You can view the gallery here.
More photos will be added shortly.
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Essex Rocks Stage Sponsor |
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We are now fully booked for this year's event. |
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