Glastonwick 2009

Glastonwick 2009 is the 14th annual beer, music, poetry and more beer festival.

Held at Church Farm, Coombes, West Sussex from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th June, Glastonwick promise a weekend of enormous quantities of delicious real ale (including many new brews as usual), farmhouse cider, perry, and top quality entertainment.

The line-up is confirmed as:
Friday: (6pm-midnight) Too Many Crooks, Chris T-T, Lovely Brothers, Drookit Dogs, and Alun Party.
Saturday: Goldblade, The Go Set, Sates, Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs, Dizzy Heights, Spoz, Anal Beard, Garden Gang, Paul Carter, Charred Hearts, Gary Kaye, and Amateur Ninja Club.
Sunday Asbo Derek (Half Ban Half Biscuit), Leon Rosselson, Richard Durrant, Fitsroy, Phil Jeays, plus storyteller John Row wandering free.

The festival offers overnight camping on the Friday and Saturday nights, ample car parking space and tractor rides/some entertainment for the kids, as well as the customary plethora of fine independently brewed beer and music.

Frequent trains run to Shoreham from Brighton, Worthing (both only 10 minutes away by train) and other stations along the West Coastway Line. From there, you just need to jump on the special free shuttle bus linking the festival with Shoreham High Street and Railway Station, Southwick Square and Manor Hall Road, and Portslade.

There is camping offered on site for around £5 per night (Friday and Saturday), but you MUST book in advance if you wish to camp on site.

The festival is open from 6pm to midnight on the Friday, 12 noon to midnight on the Saturday, and 12 noon to 6pm on Sunday.

There will be about 65 cask-conditioned ales, all from small independent breweries - mostly unusual but with a few 'old favourites'. About 10 farmhouse ciders and perries, and plenty of food including vegetarian options.

There will be entertainment compered by Attila the Stockbroker.

Tickets are now on sale priced as follows:

Friday evening (6pm to midnight): £7
Saturday (noon-midnight): £10 - SOLD OUT
Sunday daytime (from 12 noon): £5

Children under 12 have free admittance, 12 and over adult price.

Tickets are on sale at the following outlets:
The Evening Star, 55-56 Surrey Street, Brighton (01273 328931)
The Romans, Manor Hall Road, Southwick (01273 592147)
The Duke of Wellington, 368 Brighton Road, Shoreham-by-Sea (01273 389818)
The Buckingham Arms, 35-39 Brunswick Road, Shoreham-by-Sea (01273 453660)
The Stand Up Inn, 47 High St. Lindfield, Haywards Heath (01444 482995)

Tickets can be purchased by sending a cheque made out to Barnstormer Events with your ticket requirements and an SAE to Attila The Stockbroker, P.O. Box 668, Portslade, East Sussex, BN42 4BG.

There will be more information here when available.

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