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Ashton Court Festival???
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:51 am
by DeepThought
does anyone know if theres gonna be any dubstep repped at the festival at the weekend?
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:58 am
by Forensics
Nah mate, I very much doubt it!
Think I'm gonna have to miss it this year,
first time ever. Oh well, line-up's a bit gash.....
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:03 am
by poax
digi myst and me doin lovebox in the afternoon....
thats a festival not a posish
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:11 am
by Forensics
Few good people at Ashton Court on the Saturday
actually. Dreadzone, Blackout JA & the Jungle Red
Band, etc.... Getting peer pressure to go, so you
never know - might end up reaching in the end.
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:14 am
by kidkut
The acoustic tent is usually ok, i just love going along to sit in the sun with a beer and a reefer.
Saying that dont forget Unity the night before at Lakota, you have Dubloaded, Ruffneck and Noir all playing an hour each
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:25 am
by Forensics
kidkut wrote:The acoustic tent is usually ok, i just love going along to sit in the sun with a beer and a reefer.
Yeah, can't be beaten for that....
Deep Thought - here's the line-up
http://www.ashtoncourtfestival.com/FEST ... r_Saturday
http://www.ashtoncourtfestival.com/FEST ... for_Sunday
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:40 am
by thinking
there's not been a proper Dance music tent at Ashton Court for a couple of years now. This is becaue of a few instances of trouble kicking off up there as it used to act like a bit of a lightning rod for all the pikeys & herberts.
Due to the fighting etc, Bristol Police got the hump about dance music at the festival, and threatened a 400% price hike to police the festival the next year unless they dropped the dance music stage. The festival's Insurers also put their prices up through the roof.
A lot of people also blame the recent sponsors, Orange (the festival is now called the Orange Ashton Court Festival instead of the Bristol Community Festival) in wanting to do anything to avoid negative publicity.
As above, if you're coming down for the weekend you should try to hit Unity @ Lakota on the Friday nite. This was started up last year, and is an annual collaboration between 40-50 bristol promoters to try and show the wider world that Bristol's dance music community can come together in a positive, broad-minded fashion without any trouble, agression or violence.
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:10 pm
by DeepThought
thanks fellas
Forensics wrote:
kidkut wrote:kidkut wrote:
The acoustic tent is usually ok, i just love going along to sit in the sun with a beer and a reefer.
Yeah, can't be beaten for that....
init!
used to go to ashton court every year.. but havent been the last couple..
yeah seem to remember the sunday jungle brok out gettin a bit rowdy last time i was there!
cheers for the heads up on Unity, hopefully be able to check it out..
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:52 pm
by dub boy
kidkut wrote:
Saying that dont forget Unity the night before at Lakota, you have Dubloaded, Ruffneck and Noir all playing an hour each
Ruffnek is doing 3am til close i think
Atki2 is playing for us.... dropping live exclusives. Niceness
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:39 pm
by sakurako
Ashton Court's not about the music, anyway... It's about hiking across the city to get overcharged booze and sunburn with a load of people who you just see down the pub anyway...
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:27 pm
by spaceboy
ThinKing wrote:there's not been a proper Dance music tent at Ashton Court for a couple of years now. This is becaue of a few instances of trouble kicking off up there as it used to act like a bit of a lightning rod for all the pikeys & herberts.
Due to the fighting etc, Bristol Police got the hump about dance music at the festival, and threatened a 400% price hike to police the festival the next year unless they dropped the dance music stage. The festival's Insurers also put their prices up through the roof.
A lot of people also blame the recent sponsors, Orange (the festival is now called the Orange Ashton Court Festival instead of the Bristol Community Festival) in wanting to do anything to avoid negative publicity.
As above, if you're coming down for the weekend you should try to hit Unity @ Lakota on the Friday nite. This was started up last year, and is an annual collaboration between 40-50 bristol promoters to try and show the wider world that Bristol's dance music community can come together in a positive, broad-minded fashion without any trouble, agression or violence.
In 2000 we did an after-party for the festival a charity ting w/ mayzee and co...down club loco / maze club - headz decided to let off gas in the club (no not the methane from the backside) - bigup mr ed rush for persisting with his set..it was worse than lebanon in there.
ashton court is wicked...but the hike up the hill broke a man...and my sneaks
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:47 pm
by sofi
i wish!
ashton court ent very with it, i must admit
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:33 pm
by kidkut
Dub boy wrote:kidkut wrote:
Saying that dont forget Unity the night before at Lakota, you have Dubloaded, Ruffneck and Noir all playing an hour each
Ruffnek is doing 3am til close i think
Atki2 is playing for us.... dropping live exclusives. Niceness
Excellent ill be able to catch him then..
Youll have to come upstairs at 2 Tim, i want you to check out the drums in the tunes im gonna be playing.. see what you think init
I'm planning abit of an onslaught, it will be interesting to see how they take it lol
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:54 am
by dub boy
I'm well up for the drumz Ad!
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:22 pm
by misskatiemo
ThinKing wrote:
As above, if you're coming down for the weekend you should try to hit Unity @ Lakota on the Friday nite. This was started up last year, and is an annual collaboration between 40-50 bristol promoters to try and show the wider world that Bristol's dance music community can come together in a positive, broad-minded fashion without any trouble, agression or violence.
Having only lived in Bristol for a year - but making the very first Unity - I'd 100% echo the reccomendation to make the night - it's an insanely varied night, with such a positive vibe its ridiculous - def. one of the best nights I had in Bristol last year, and I had loads
<3
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:51 pm
by pete_bubonic
Fuck Ashton Court, unless you like Pendulum. Then there ain't no hope for you anyway.
Unity. This friday. Going to be large.
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:01 pm
by musty dust
asgton court is well good.
se fire will be bad.
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:23 pm
by Forensics
Yeah, Ashton Court's wicked people - all about
the vibes. I'm pissed off to be missing it... And
Unity SUCKED last year - hence why I decided
against repping Ruffnek myself this year
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:41 pm
by pete_bubonic
Forensics wrote: And Unity SUCKED last year [/img]
Easily one of the best nights of last year.
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:28 pm
by dub boy
Forensics wrote:
Unity SUCKED last year - hence why I decided
against repping Ruffnek myself this year
bollock Krys, you're talking arse.... Unity was a great laugh and I for one am dead chuffed that they wanted Ruffnek Diskotek to be part of it.
