It’s ironic that the golden rule of capitalism is at work in something as historically left-of-centre as festivals. This summer the power of the market is separating the wheat from the chaff in festival-land.
The beauty of it is, that whilst money may be able to book a big headliner, it requires imagination to create a festival that fills a gap in the market. Sure, the results might not always be nice (the unwelcome rumours that the marvellous Truck Festival may be bust for instance) but it’s sure to guarantee that no-one’s complacent.
Camp Bestival was started as a more family-friendly version of Bestival. As the popularity of taking kids to festivals has grown, so has this (now medium sized) festival. The Sunday Best lot know their audience and they have enough confidence in their own instincts that they don’t feel the need to schedule the acts in order of record sales. An obvious example is the headliner on Friday night. Other festivals might relegate Blondie to a tent, and stick the flavour of the year on the main stage, but Sunday Best know their audience. Obvious really since the man in charge is a DJ (Rob Da Bank) and therefore has an intuitive grasp of what the next tune should be.
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As you may have noticed we’ve thrown ourselves into festival season like nobody’s business this summer.
We’ve already had some great weekends and it’s still so early! If you still haven’t decided where to go this summer, then please allow us to make some recommendations! So what’s in store for July then?
Apart from shouting ‘bollocks’ in a field and hoping everyone will join in, as opposed to bricking your tent to death…
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For many, Debbie Harry was a first crush. If you’re older, just a plain ol’ crush. Either way, she’s a well assembled woman who happened to front a pretty cool band that covered a lot of ground. Disco, proto-rap, rock, punk, pop… oh, and that terrible ‘Maria’ one.
And there’s a certain tragic suicide blonde thing going on with Debbie, which makes her even more alluring. She’s been a Playboy Bunny with her boobies out, she was adopted as a baby and is generally a bit broken and trashy.
Oh, and she was nearly killed by one of America’s most notorious serial killers, Ted Bundy. Read More >>>
Regular readers may have noticed that, when it comes to competition prizes, sometimes we’re a bit on the rubbishy side.
No, no, it’s OK, we are. Or at least we were, because now we’re going to offer you possibly the biggest prize in hecklerspray history – a bundle of CDs, DVDs, T-shirts and goodness knows what else worth somewhere in the region of £200.
It’s all thanks to the wonderful people at EMI and their wonderful new website. If you want to win, then you’d better watch the video after the jump, hadn’t you…
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