Crowd Shot at Bristol Festival 2008
Following the success of last year, BFGC have extended the festival to this year include a Friday night Audio-Visual extravaganza dubbed 'AV'it!’
Large-scale light projections, digital graffiti as seen on TV, interactive music machines, GPS location activated poetry, films, fire displays, new media theatre and a whole array of digital art. And that’s on top of an internationally renowned street art exhibition, brilliant bands, crazy walkabouts, local foods and a silent disco featuring the cream of the clubbing crop. Friday 18th Sep 6pm-midnight, Lloyds Amphitheatre. Advance tickets are £5. Seewww.thebristolfestival.org for more details.
‘AV’it’ is in addition to Brizzolfest the main Bristol festival hub based at Lloyds Amphitheatre on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September. The infamous Saturday night ‘Rave on Avon’ nightclub takeover has been expanded to include 10 city centre venues, which will celebrate the world-renowned Bristol dance music scene. Look out for info regarding ‘Raves on the Waves’ too. Artists performing at this years festival include:
Babel // Babyhead // Bashema // Big Joan // Blackout // Central Spillz // Clayton Blizzard // Dr Meaker // Dynamo Rhythem Aces // First Degree Burns // Freefall Collective // Gecko // Hunting Lodge // Malakai // Mr Woodnote & The Bonobo Hobos // Pete Roe // Rossanne Hamilton // Sally Larkin // Shadz & the Root Elevation Band // SJ Esau // The Black Bloc // The Black Sheep // The Flies // The Hats // The Hit Ups // The Monaros // The Swamps // Turbowolf // Vertebrae // Yes Rebels // Al Tourettes // Appleblim // Baobinga // Ben & Lex // Break // Deepgrove // DJ Die // Dr Moody // Eveson // Forsaken // Guido //Headhunter // Hyetal // Joker // Koast // Komonazmuk // Lomax // Minotaur Shock // October // Octogen // Superisk // TC & Jakes // The Insiders and many, many more!
As part of their on-going effort to support local artistic talent, the BFCG are running an art auction in association with Goldbrick House, on Tuesday August 18th 2009 to raise money for this year’s festival and to support local artists. With a mixture of established fine artists and stars of the future there will be over 40 lots to bid on with the main auction starting at 9pm. 50% of the profit generated will be donated to the Bristol Festival 2009 Art Fund. Artists involved include Hannah Davies, Deenagh Miller, Greg Trucker, Andrew Hood, Cheba and Acer.
This event is part of the BFCG’s wider commitment to art development in the City which includes a recent art competition with over 2000 pupils from local schools invited to take part. The competition asked for pupils to draw or paint a picture that represents what Bristol means to them. The winners and runner-ups will be announced on September 14th, a week before Bristol Festival 2009 and will have their art exhibited at the festival plus two adult tickets for the parents. Children under twelve are free at the event, when accompanied by an adult.
Even the latest Bristol Festival 2009 poster is designed by brilliant local artist Andy Council featuring Bristol music scene venues. (Poster attached) A true snapshot of Bristol’s independent musical scene, limited edition screen prints will soon be available from www.thebristolfestival.org.
All in all, thanks to the hard work from everyone involved, it looks like the Bristol Festival 2009 is shaping up to be a beauty!
ENDS
FOR ALL MEDIA ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT:
Oliver Mochizuki
Press Officer
olly@thebristolfestival.org
07766 012365
Images and photographs of the Bristol Festival 2008 are available on request or you can download them from our website. www.thebristolfestival.org
Notes to editors:
The Bristol Festival Community Group was set up in 2007 to launch a new community focused festival for the South West.
The volunteer led BFCG were granted full charity status in 2008 (Registered Charity no. 1124722) and key to the group's aims are public consultation, participation and involvement, making the Bristol Festival the only city wide publicly directed event. As well as organising the festival, the group runs a volunteer training programme including mentoring, skills swaps and work experience enabling members of the community to gain valuable experience in the events and music industry.
The Bristol Festival 2008 was a resounding success with a brilliant weekend enjoyed by roughly fourteen thousand people, winning Venue magazine’s Top Event of 2008. Over 2,000 artists and 300 volunteers were involved over the weekend of 20-21st September, with Brizzolfest taking place in the Amphitheatre in Bristol’s central Harbourside area, and Rave on Avon selling out 10 city centre nightclubs.
The Bristol Festival 2009 is planned for September 18th-20th, at Lloyds Amphitheatre, and 10 nightclubs, and will feature 7 outdoor stages and over 300 local bands, DJs, comedians, circus and cabaret performances. Tickets are just £5 a day in advance from www.thebristolfestival.org.
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