Told you this was going to be a good 'un:
The full Strummer of Love line up : The Pogues, Badly Drawn Boy, Frank Turner, Billy Bragg, Roots Manuva, Basement Jaxx (DJ), KT Tunstall, Alabama 3, Dreadzone, Emmy the Great, Reverend and the Makers, Don Letts, Mr C, David Rodigan, Kitty Daisy and Lewis, Slow Club, Dog is Dead, Dub Pistols, Man Like Me, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Bastille, The Whip, Joshua Moses, Jim Jones Revue, Fionn Regan, Crazy P, Channel One Soundsystem, Talisman, Fit Les, The Time and Space Machine, Hollie Cook, Josh Kumra, Ska Lavin, Kate Tempest, Yob, Luca C & Brigante, Guy Williams, Parma Violets, Matices Latinos, Dark Moon, Atlantics, The Joker and the Thief, The Validators, The Supernovas, Beans on Toast, Ben Folke Thomas
Strummer of Love Part Two: the line up
That phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
Joe Strummer - a name mentioned in hushed tones, wherever old punks gather to compare haircuts and share a nostalgic bag of evo-stik.
This summer, somewhere in Somerset, and they ain't saying where, theres a one off festival in the great man's honour.
We don't know where - but its a fair bet it's going to be somewhere near Bridgwater, where the legend lived, or Worthy Farm, where he kept the fire of old school radical punk burning at Glastonbury Festival for decades.
We don't know who's going to play - they'll tell us next week.
The Strummer of Love festival will inevitably, be as cool as the chap hisself.
The festival is being organised by music inspired charity Strummerville and takes place on August 17th-19th with all proceedings going to the charity.
Strummerville does more right on and fabulous stuff than you can shake a studded belt at as you can see here: http://www.strummerville.com/our-work-and-what-we-do/
The first 1,001 tickets were releasedtoday April 11 at £101, to commemorate Joe’s first band The 101ers.
For line-up details and tickets: http://strummeroflove.com/
For more information on Strummerville’s work: http://www.strummerville.com/
Holcombe Big Gig
Farmer Simon Eade joins band members Paul
Swift from Gass and Pete Rupprich from Indie-cision
to announce the date for The
Big Gig 2012.
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Folkfest Fundraiser
Burnham on Sea FolkFest kicks off the Somerset Festival Season when it holds a fundraiser on Easter Sunday.
The Old Pier Tavern in Pier Street (opposite Morrisons, just down from the seafront) hosts the event which kicks off at 1pm and will go on late into the evening .
Local singer/songwriter and hearthrob Phil King will be performing, as will jiggity folkies Bag Of Rats, and The Alchemist's Wardrobe.
Even though this is a folk festival benefit, don’t expect too much in the way of hand –behind-me-ear-o whackfoldolriddles. There will also be old school punk from Vermin, and some ace blues-rock from Nick Elswood and Friends
Also on stage at the Pier will be Trisexual Winkers, Snatch 'N' Co, Mr and Mrs Russell, and Tim Fardon and Rowan Ensoll.
All-day wristbands cost a fiver, and all the money goes to supporting the folk festival which runs from August 30 to September 2 and puts on scores of free shows over the weekend.
And as all the shops are shut (yes, even Tesco and B&Q) why not head to the seaside and quaff a couple, take in some music and take the kids to the beach and have a 99 while you are about it.
Orchestra in a Field - free entry and camping for kids
Beeeyootiful Glastonbury Abbey |