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Downtown Diner shows/LOTF/New Material!
By Will | October 12, 2008
With the summer, all but dead and buried, and most out door events hibernating for the foreseeable future, we figured we’d jump on the opportunity to organize a series of shows in Oct/Nov at the Downtown Diner (Ashford). Its the breeding ground from where the interest in the band stemmed from all those years ago, and I guess to us, is a very special place to be playing again.
Those of you with semi working memories, might remember the fancy dress Halloween show we put on two years ago (Chris managed to get the entire crowd out of the building and back again in the ‘monster mash’ jam) which was a real success and superb party. This time around, we’re holding the show slightly earlier than expected, on October 19th for all ages at 7.30pm, to avoid people having to deal with the predicament of school term dates. The more that turn up, the more chance the buzz on the evening will be nuts….especially if (stating the obvious!) everyone looks like they’ve just walked off a horror film set. Entry is £3 on the door with prizes to win for the best fancy dress Please spread the message!
Moving on: Every now and again, we ask/urge you to vote for us in various competitions and we can totally understand why your patience would run thin, but the outcomes of these things are way out of our hands. Anyway, this time, we’re asking you to show your support to our good friends, and providers of the best festival the summer holds, Lounge on the Farm.
All you’ve got to do is select ‘Lounge on the Farm’ in the specific categories they’ve been nominated for and put forward your email address to help beat ‘Spammers.’ No registering, or anything else too time consuming.
On behalf of the whole band please can you read this and do your bit for the best festival going!!!!
2009 Dates confirmed
Well dig out your diaries, cancel your plans, declare a holiday - because we have agreed dates for LOTF 2009 with the farmer - and this year we’ll be back for three days of festival frivolity of Friday 10, Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 July 2009. That’s 339 days time. You can’t say we didn’t warn you!
Festival Surveys & Awards
Right - now time for us to borrow 5 minutes of your time if you can spare it. We hope you can?
FESTIVAL AWARDS - In our first year of entry we have been nominated for a whopping 5 festival awards in the UK Festival Awards. They’re a bit of an industry schmooze really - but obvs any further recognition of what we do here at LOTF can only be positive, and could play a big part in how future festivals pan out if we pull it off. SO - if you could click through to www.festivalawards.com, sign up, and if you agree cast your vote that LOTF was by far the bestest in 2008 for:
- Best Small Festival
- Best Line Up
- Best Family Festival
- Best Grass Roots Festival
- Best Toilets
.. we would be much obliged! Quite what we’d do with an award for Best Festival Toilets I don’t know - hardly mantelpiece material is it? But hey you never know when these things may come in handy! Plus one winning voter gets tickets to every winning festival next year - what a summer that would be!
FESTIVAL SURVEY - Ok, so thanks for the votes. Now time to get a little back. While we’ve announced the dates for 2009’s festival we’re keen to get a bit of an idea from yourselves as to what we need to keep / improve / ditch to move forward and make LOTF 09 even better than the last ones. Its all part of our ‘organic’ growth see, so if the only suggestions coming in are for The Beatles headliners we don’t quite think we’re ready yet - but honestly, ALL comments and suggestions WILL play a massive part in putting next years festival together. To fill this one out itswww.loungeonthefarm.co.uk/2008survey.htm
The Farmhouse
Last but by no means least - our new Canterbury home The Farmhouse is open for business and well worth a visit. This weekend saw some blinding performances from Pete Molinari & Kevin Rowland on friday and saturday night. There’s plenty more musical treats to come before the end of the year - and with the restaurant open as of Thursday serving local, seasonal goodness what’s stopping you?
The Farmhouse - 11 Dover Street - Canterbury - CT1 3HD. Email us for more info.
So those places to visit again?
www.loungeonthefarm.co.uk/2008survey.htm for the LOTF customer feedback form &
www.festivalawards.com to give us a bit of a boost in the Festival Awards
Ta very much - see you in 2009!
Kent’s bestest Music Festival
LOTF xx
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Moving On …
Finally, we’re getting back on track with writing some more new material, to hopefully put up on the net as rough demos, to get your opinions, hopefully improving them further. Going back to the Diner shows, it also gives us a good idea of what each song is like live and how well you guys really take to it. These dates are the 9th and 23rd of November. Anyway before that: we hope to see you, all dressed up and scary, at the Downtown Diner in Ashford, 7.30pm on the 19th of October.
Thanks for reading this!
Electric River
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