Whitehaven Diamond Jubilee Festival - Saturday Concert

[rockerlad]

Ayia napa or whitehaven festival...........gotta be cyprus for me

Any day of the week ha ha. I don't mind the festival different Banda every year. But it's the same old tripe on the harbour every year, same old food stalls.

nobody is forcing you to go and walk around the "same old tripe". perhaps you could contact the organizers and offer your services to ensure a new brand of tripe for the next one?

Personally none of it really interests me but i'll have a walk down on the sat evening

I will spend my usually 30 mins walking round then be off to the boozer.

[African exile]

interesting to see who is gonna be on on the sunday

I heard mention of The Specials, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets. How good would that be?

The Charlatans and The Enemy are playing on Sunday

[Bkenz92]

[spacecake]

interesting to see who is gonna be on on the sunday

I heard mention of The Specials, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets. How good would that be?

The Charlatans and The Enemy are playing on Sunday

Are these at night get back from cyprus at 7ish wouldnt mind watching them mind

[harbouragrudge]

Concerts tend to be on late afternoon on the Sunday.

[rockerlad]

interesting to see who is gonna be on on the sunday

I heard mention of The Specials, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets. How good would that be?

The Charlatans and The Enemy are playing on Sunday

That more like it

[Caractacus Potts]

interesting to see who is gonna be on on the sunday

I heard mention of The Specials, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets. How good would that be?

The Charlatans and The Enemy are playing on Sunday

That more like it

"Be my spider woman, I'll be your spiderman........"!   

The Enemy have done some good chunes, but most of the time they just sound a bit like Paul Weller

[dcharlie]

As someone who hasn't lived in Whitehaven since 1993 i'm stunned at the job that's been done to turn Whitehaven/cumbria into a music hotbed. When i lived in Whitehaven i'd have to go to Newcastle, Manchester etc if i had any hope of seeing anyone (or Barrow/Carlisle every now and then )

Now ? wow - just wow. I'll be back in whitehaven in May and i'm looking at who i can go see - it really is mindblowing. But same has happened in the past - saw the Buzzcocks. THE BUZZCOCKS at the Civic Hall. That would have been unthinkable all those years back.

The work that's been done to attract people to the town, the establishment of festivals etc - it's the potential awakening of a whole region and hats off to all involved.

I'm just jealous as a huge music fan that this scene just wasn't there when i was young.

[Conrad Penguin]

I got an e mail off a buddy today that still stays in Whitehaven. Said the crack round town was not many tickets had been sold and there were plans to sell the remaining tickets on the nights cheap.
 If this is true I will be very peeved as every bloody year I buy tickets for each day at full price but if this is the case after assurances last year that it would never happen again I feel the festival as a musical attraction will fall on its arse as no-one will pay for the tickets up front so he won't be able to get the cash to attract the bands.
I really hope there is no truth in it. Has anyone heard anything? 

[harbouragrudge]

Why should people feel forced to 'splash the cash' on bands that are presented as a done deal?