Summers End (2008)

[VAXman(Admin)]

Discussion thread for this festival.

Opening bands announced.

Summers End Progressive Rock Festival, taking place over three days at The Hall, Lydney, Gloucestershire, on 26/27/28 September 2008
Confirmed line up:

Friday:
Threshold
Seasons End

Saturday:
IQ
Magenta
Quidam (Poland)
Abarax (Germany)
Overvibe

Sunday
The Tangent (Uk / Sweden)
Frost*
Abel Ganz
Tba (will be announced in about 10 days time)
GLOW

[Lambsie]

26th, 27th, 28th September. The Hall, High Street, Lydney, Gloucestershire. GL15 5DY

Ticket Sales

Due to the expected high demand and a slightly smaller venue capacity of 300 this year, we have decided to prioritise those that are supporting most or all of the festival. Tickets will therefore go on sale on April 1st at 10 am BST EXCEPT tickets for individual days, which will go in sale on May 1st at 10 am. All tickets must be paid for at time of booking. All online / telephone sales will incur a per-tickets booking charge. Postal sales do NOT incur the booking charge except £1 per ORDER to cover post and packing. Tickets will be sold on a first come, first sold basis.

On sale April 1st from 10 am

1. Gold Tickets - £100 plus £4 booking fee per ticket for all credit card, debit card and Paypal payments. This is your chance to contribute towards the future of the festival while also getting a package of goodies that includes a couple of exclusive items. Gold tickets are unlimited in number.

Gold ticket package:

· Standard 3 day Festival Ticket
· Festival T-shirt (in your size)
· Your name on the “sponsors” page of the Festival programme and a copy of the programme itself
· A voucher to be spent online at www.sonicbond.com for £12
· A personalised laminated souvenir pass for the festival

2.Standard 3 day ticket - £55 plus £2 booking fee

3. Standard 2 day (Saturday / Sunday) ticket £45 plus £2 booking fee

On Sale from May 1st at 10am

4. Friday night ticket - £12.50 plus £0.50 booking fee

5. Day Tickets – Saturday or Sunday only £27 plus £1 booking fee.

How to buy tickets:

1. Online

Visit www.sonicbond.com - links will be available from the front page

Make a Paypal payment to: info@sonicbond.com - stating precisely which tickets you require and giving your full name and address. We will email you back within 24 hours with confirmation of your order.

2. By phone

Coming soon

3. By Post

Send a cheque or postal order for the full amount to: Stephen Lambe, Summers End Festival, 10 Chance Street, Tewkesbury Glos. GL20 5RQ. Cheques should be made payable to “S Lambe”. Please note that the booking fees do not apply to sales by this method, however £1 should be added to all orders to cover postage and packing.

Accommodation Matching

Accommodation at Whitemead Forest Park www.whitemead.co.uk is apartment / chalet based and bookable for the weekend only. If you are travelling on your own or in a small party, then we will happily attempt to match you up with other people to share an apartment. Just email summersend@btinternet.com and we’ll try to help or why not post a message on the Festival Yahoo group message board at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group...rsendfestival/. Early booking is recommended, with a 25% deposit on booking, and the balance payable by August 15th.

Please bear in mind that we WON’T be booking accommodation for you – we’re just bring people together to share. This service applies ONLY to Whitemead Forest Park. A list of other accommodation in the area can be found at: www.visitforestofdean.co.uk

Visit us online at www.summersend.co.uk (to be updated soon)
www.myspace.com/summersendfestival
Join the yahoo group at: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group...rsendfestival/

[Rick and Roll]

The line up is great, the show will surely be top-shelf (as was the 2006 show!)...but I can't make it. There will be too many demands on my time from May-Sept - will try to get back to Europe sometime (only been to England once and Canada several times).

Hope some of you can make it.

With the addition of Thieves Kitchen the confirmed line-up for SEfest 2008 is:

Friday:
Threshold
Seasons End

Saturday:
IQ
Magenta
Quidam (Poland)
Abarax (Germany)
Overvibe

Sunday
The Tangent (Uk / Sweden)
Frost*
Abel Ganz
Thieves Kitchen (UK / Sweden)
GLOW

This is going to be one hell of a good weekend. Tickets are going fast so GET IN NOW. See Lambsie's post earlier in the thread.

Rogor Mortis and I look forward to seeing a few of you there.

[roger]

and now Thieves Kitchen! zowie!

anybody know where I can sell one of my kidneys?