The Big Feastival 2011

The Big Feastival is a new three day family friendly event combining food from some of the country's top chefs with a top drawer selection live music acts. The Big Feastival takes place on Clapham Common from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd July. Created as an urban village fete with a music festival vibe, the event offers a day out for the entire family with food included in the ticket price and all kids can go free.

The Big Feastival will be raising funds for The Prince's Trust and The Jamie Oliver Foundation to help change the lives of disadvantaged young people.

Line-up

The first acts confirmed for Friday are Soul II Soul with vocalist Caron Wheeler, New Young Pony Club, Norman Jay, Danny Rampling, Roots Manuva, Saint Saviour, and Ashley Beedle from X-Press 2. Saturday's acts are headed up by The Charlatans, Mystery Jets, Trophy Wife, and Kurran and the Wolfnotes. Joining Athlete on Sunday will be Guillemots, The Bees, Guilty Pleasures, & The Cuban Brothers. In the coming weeks more of the line-up of DJs and acts will be revealed.

Tickets

An early bird adult day ticket is priced at £35 and does not include any scoff tokens although food can be purchased on site. With food (5 Feastival 'scoffs') the price is £75. A child ticket (Aged 12-17*) is priced at £25 and includes 3 scoffs. A child tickets (aged 11 and under) have free entry (*the age you will be on the day of the event). A family (2 adults, and 2 children aged 12-17 years) is priced at £175 (a family receives 16 scoffs between them.

VIP Tickets (18+) are priced at £125 and also includes unlimited beer, wine and soft drinks + non-stop fantastic food at the VIP bar by Giant Robot.

To buy tickets, click here.

Food

There will be plenty of attractions like a funfair and kitchen garden, and food on offer throughout the weekend from the likes of The British Cheese Board and The People's Supermarket, plus there will be myriad demonstrations and masterclasses from a wealth of experts including Peter Gordon, Atul Kochhar, Theo Randall, Matt Tebbutt, Mark Sargeant, Michael Caines, Gennaro Contaldo, Thomasina Miers, Peter Gordon, Jonathan Downey, Theo Randall, Cyrus Todiwala, Cass Titcombe, Jamie Oliver, Sophie Grigson, Recipease, Jo Pratt and Rachel Allen. A whole host of chefs who will be contributing to One Big Menu. The Big Feastival has a committee of chefs - who have come together to celebrate all that is good about food in a rock 'n' roll environment.


Other restaurants supplying sublime sustenance across the weekend will include Trinity, Benares, Redhook, Vinoteca, Cafe Spice Namaste, Canteen, Barbacoa and Giant Robot who will present the VIP bar, with lots more restaurants still to be announced.

Accommodation

There is no camping at The Big Feastival. The event runs from 2pm until 10.30pm on Friday, noon until 10.30pm on Saturday, and from 10am until 8pm on Sunday.

More information will be here when available.

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