End of the Road Festival '10

Started in 2006, the organisers aim is to "organise an intimate festival with our favourite artists, and to offer the bands an opportunity to play longer sets, compared to most other festivals." As the programming is done by the organisers who book acts they like, the line-up on offer is far more interesting than many other festivals. The dates for 2010 are confirmed as Friday 10th to Sunday 12th September.

The End of the Road festival caters for about 5,000 people. There are three music stages, with the Big Top open to 2am. There's also comedy and a cinema tent hosted by Little White Lies film magazine.

Line-up

The acts announced for the 2010 line-up are headliners Modest Mouse will play Friday, Yo La Tengo on Saturday and Wilco on Sunday. Plus Steve Mason, The New Pornographers, Iron & Wine, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Low Anthem, Black Mountain, Frank Fairfield, The Felice Brothers, The Unthanks, The Antlers, Elliott Brood, Cate Le Bon, Django Django, Forest Fire, Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell, Joe Pug, Jessica Lea Mayfield, The Ruby Suns, Snowman, Timber Timbre, Diane Cluck with Andy Griffin, and more. For the line-up details, day and stage splits as available please click here.

Tickets

Early bird tickets have now sold out, as have full priced tickets which were on sale priced at £130 for adults. All other options have sold out - a youth (ages 13-17 years who must be accompanied by an adult) ticket was priced at £120, a ticket for children aged 6-12 years (must be accompanied by an adult) was priced at £50, with free entry for a child aged 0 - 5 years, they still needed tickets which could be purchased in advance. Tickets are still available for a campervan/caravan pass priced at £45, a car parking is priced at £5 (payable in cash on arrival).

To buy tickets campervan passes only, click here.

Early entry Thursday

For the first time End Of The road will be allowing early entry to the festival on Thursday 9th September when camping and some parts of the festival site will be on Thursday afternoon. Festival goers can arrive, set up camp, spend the evening finding their way around and be ready to hit the festival when the entertainment starts on Friday. There will also be a few small bands playing the tipi stage, the cinema will be running, and bars and catering will be open.

Admittance times

Car Parks & Box Office open at 2pm
Camping opens at 3pm
Tipi, Cinema, Bars and Food open from 5pm
Latest arrival on Thursday is 10pm (gates close for the night at this time)
Friday 10th September: Car Parks, Box Office & Camping open at 8.30am

Tipi tent

The festival will be increasing the size of the Tipi Tent, which will now be a circular tent of Tipis which are joined together, creating more viewing area, while keeping that magical intimate feel.

The Local venue

As 'The Local' booked such popular bands for their stage last year, The End of the Road has also decided to increase the size of their venue and give them their own mini Big Top.

Workshops

The festival will also have an increased program of workshops for both children and adults, with sessions that carry on longer into the evening.

The Larmer Tree Gardens is about 2.5-3 hours drive from London, and falls on the border between North Dorset and Wiltshire, fairly close to Stonehenge. It's a beautiful venue with gorgeous views and with peacocks and huge parrots roaming / flying around freely both inside the gardens and in the field. The festival will be open on Friday 11th September 2010, from 10am until Monday 14th September at 12 midday.

More information will be here when available.