Glastonbudget

Glastonbudget is an annual music festival held in Leicestershire. The festival has been held since 2005 at Turnpost Farm, Wymeswold.

Initially started as a festival for tribute bands it has expanded in recent years to include a showcase for new acts as well as the main tribute stage. Interest in the festival and those attending has increased year on year with the 2012 festival seeing almost 12,000 festival goers in attendance.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2006, the festival has invited special guests to perform. These have included Chas and Dave (2006), The Neville Staples Specials (2007), Bad Manners (2008) and Chesney Hawkes (2009), Ex Simple Minds (2010), Doctor and The Medics (2011) and Showaddywaddy, The Sweet, and the welcome return of Chesney Hawkes in 2012.^{[citation needed]}

The 2013 Glastonbudget event will see performances from Uk Tributes and Unsigned acts, with special guest performances from 80's superstars Howard Jones and ABC.^{[citation needed]}

Organisation

The event is organised annually by a small team including Nick Tanner and Murray Stewart, who take pride in the fact that they have never been to a mainstream music festival. The event is run and managed from a small base at The Harrow Inn, Thurmaston.

Charity Links

In 2010 Glastonbudget announced that they would be supporting Leicestershire-based charity LOROS www.loros.com LOROS (the Leicestershire and Rutland Organisation for the Relief of Suffering) is a local charity providing care and support within Leicestershire and Rutland.^{[citation needed]}

Controversy

In late 2008 a dispute arose between people involved in organizing the festival which eventually ended with the trade mark and glastonbudget.co.uk domain being transferred to Mockstar limited.^[1] During the dispute, two websites existed with contradictory claims to who was running the festival.

References

• BBC report on 2007 festival
• Sky News article

External links