Chagstock 2011, Chagford, July 22nd to 24th
Day tickets are now on sale for Chagstock 2011.
A limited number of day tickets are available for the Friday night and full day Saturday and will be the only non full festival tickets. So grab them fast.
This year the festival theme will be Pirates and Smugglers. So go along dressed up and the best costume will win tickets for Chagstock 2012 – aaaaaaarrrrrrggghhhh.
This year’s fifth anniversary events sees The Magic Numbers, Show Of Hands and Bellowhead will headlining.
The independent music festival, held on the edge of Dartmoor in Chagford will feature all the usual craft stalls, local food and fabulous on site entertainment. Plus a beer tent and merchandising stand.
The headline acts promise a great weekend of quality music.
The Magic Numbers a 70s-style, happy harmony band, made up of two sets of brothers and sisters, who are thriving in the 21st century.
Headlining the acoustic marquee on Friday night is Show of Hands. Widely acknowledged as the finest acoustic roots duo in England, the pair played at the very first Chagstock back in 2007. It will be great to see them back helping celebrate the fifth anniversary.
Bellowhead have played at the BBC proms in front of 40,000 people and will be taking to the stage at Chagstock. The past six years have seen them progress from being a band whose main intention was to ‘have fun at festivals’ to recording two acclaimed, ground-breaking albums (Burlesque, Matachin). They have appeared on everything from BBC Four to BBC Breakfast TV and everywhere from Truck, to the Big Chill, Glastonbury, Sidmouth and Cambridge Folk Festivals. Following in the footsteps of chart-toppers, St Etienne, Bellowhead have become Band in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre. They have also been voted Best Live Act at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards an unparalleled four times.
Also booked to appear is the John Otway Big Band. John played solo in 2009 and is returning with his band on the main stage this time. John Otway is an English singer-songwriter, who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring, a surreal sense of humor and a self-deprecating underdog persona.
The Operation, based in the South west of England and with an average age of 24, promise a powerful brand of guitar music. They have a sound heavily influenced by the classic rock and pop of the 70s, twisted and modernized in an exciting new way. In their five years together they’ve toured the west coast of America including headline shows at The Viper Rooms and the Roxy, played Glastonbury festival and in the last two years have hit the road and toured every dirty dive in the UK. They’ve also supported bands such as the Magic Numbers, The Electric Soft Parade and The Editors.
Talk To Angels which is the side project of the keyboard player from Embrace. Having met at a house party at the tender age of 19 they discovered a mutual love of ambitious, heartfelt and dramatic alternative music – plus a burning desire to stay up all night discussing how a band should form. Talk To Angels set about writing their debut album and playing shows in the UK, France and America.
And Stem Roach. Based in North Tawton they play to frenzied punters in the pubs and clubs of Devon, playing their own unique attitude driven versions of quality tunes from Pulp to Jeff Beck, The Doors to The Jam. In 2010 they started writing their own material and produced the EP 1969 on Psychedandy records in November 2010.
Others booked so far include Rodney Branigan, The Fireblockers and The Freak Bruvvers.
This year on site there will also be ATM services, showers, extra kids entertainment and organisers are working on a third small ’stage’ for additional choice of entertainment.
For further details, to buy tickets and the latest news, check out the website at www.chagstock.info
Chagstock is a not for profit organisation supporting the Devon Air Ambulance Trust and Water Aid.