Festivals / Fairs / Events

NAME OF FESTIVAL Stainsby Festival is held every July on a field, in Stainsby, Derbyshire overlooking the M1, provided by Paddy Lane who stepped in to buy the site, after the previous owner Dot Brunt died. **************** UPDATE 2008 This year's festival is on 18 July until 20th and I for one hope that the car parks are in better condition than last year's! I had to be towed off and it took my dad and me all day Monday to clean it before its MOT!!! ************************** BACKGROUND The festival celebrated its 39th festival last year on the weekend and commemorative glasses for the 35th festival were made by ...  Read the complete review

As Bloc Party where saving the world at Wembley, Americas elite artists flown into New York on Concorde and British acts the other way, it was left to the great Spinal Tap to expose this hypocrisy for what it was by suggesting:” hello Wimbledon, don’t exhale’ for the next year”! The Red Hot Chili Peppers, who were the first act with any energy on stage, also saw the event for what it was and stormed off with a couple of swear words that were less than complimentary on the current atmosphere in the Wembley ionosphere, polluted with all sorts of noxious substances back stage no doubt, the ‘Chilies’ off-setting their carbon footprint by planting a couple of fields of the ...  Read the complete review