Tag: Village Green
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What Have Music Festivals (Like The Village Green) Ever Done For Us?
With a thousand music and performing arts festivals reportedly taking place in the U.K. every year you would be forgiven if the annual bash at Chalkwell Park, within touching distance of Southend-on-Sea, had passed you by. But this omission would be a shame, because Chalkwell’s Village Green, celebrating its tenth year, is a hub of…
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Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Busted At Essex Village Green Festival
The Festival season. While Spanish music fans fret about how to stay hydrated in Barcelona and Portuguese music fans research online reviews of sun hat stores in Lisbon, British music fans research which pop up tents are least likely to be washed away in a flood, and bookmark the NHS online page for trenchfoot remedies…
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Ten Things We Learned At The Village Green Festival.
It’s in Essex, it’s about the size of the kid’s field at Glastonbury, and it only costs £15 to get in (take that, austerity Britain!) but this weekend 16,500 festival goers experienced a mellow, friendly atmosphere and saw some great bands at The Village Green in Chalkwell Park, near Southend on Sea. Here’s what we…
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Breaking News: It Will Be Sunny on Saturday. The Village Green Music Festival Awaits!
Ah, the British summer. As elusive as a politician’s answer. In days of yore, at the slightest sniff of a sunny weekend, the Great British Public would, in a futile attempt to keep the kids quiet for five minutes, hop into their cars and happily spend four hours in a traffic jam, overloaded with bucket,…
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See Beth Orton, The Hosts and Scroobius Pip for £10 At Essex Festival The Village Green
As summer approaches, thoughts turn to the summer season. Whilst for the landed gentry this means the quiet civility of Ascot, Henley and The Hurlingham Club, for the rest of us it can only mean the sheer joy of mud, rain, noise, plastic cups filled with various unidentified warm bodily fluids, chemical toilets and the…
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See Sweet Billy Pilgrim and Ed Harcourt at Free Village Green Festival This Weekend
Life is busy, right? What with the need to prevent bosses and clients banging at the door with pitchforks and flaming torches with the day job, keeping my wife and kids entertained with brilliant jokes, silly walks and bad singing, the ever growing number of DIY tasks that loom like an iceberg in the mid…
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