BOoMTOwN Fair 2011!

[Town Mayor]

Dear Boomtown residents and general fair attendees,

We trust you are all wintering well and having a very merry festive season! Although it may seem summer is still a long way past the horizon all of us at Boomtown have been steamrolling ahead preparing for the next annual summer fair and we feel it’s time to bring everyone up to speed on all the exciting new additions that will be showcased at this mad, ridiculous, and totally outrageous event ahead of us!

Boomtown has well and truly emerged from its slumber and is boldly being propelled towards the next chapter cementing its place as one of the FOREMOST festival going towns in Britain.

The success of the 2010 fair is a testament to the scope and growing ambition of the town officials: to go above and beyond the horizon; to venture out into the unknown; to promote otherworldly experiences that will tantalise the senses.

Now let me take you back to last year! Boomtown was still pretty chaotic with cars half buried in the neo-noir network of streets that were flanked by seemingly innocuous shops and flame-spouting lampposts. Occasionally you still saw the maniacal horseman prowling the streets on his fire-breathing mechanical steed. Suffice to say Boomtown was certainly no safe haven a year ago. But safe or not, a huge rise in popularity has forced Boomtown to respond resulting in an expansive urban redevelopment headed up by its town officials, and fuelled by its new found popularity. The town centre has been upgraded dramatically with bigger buildings, bigger bands, louder sound! The original handful of destitute streets that spider-webbed its way through Boomtown has been growing evermore strands giving rise to masses of exciting new areas.

May-fair Avenue, an altogether far more elegant part of town has opened its doors to the fair and along its length run deluxe casino’s where dreams can come true, sumptuous restaurants offering excellent and diverse cuisine, suave gentlemen’s clubs which will turn a little raucous as the nights stretch on, and shopping for the slightly heavier of wallet.

Even ‘Old Town’- which still houses Boomtowns senior residents - has never been opened to the public as the buildings are ancient and decaying! In the unoccupied and slightly less dilapidated variety of these buildings the town officials have set up old school bars and disco’s playing music from the 50’s onwards (this, they hope, will provide the old-timers with a measure of pleasurable nostalgia thus rendering them less of a nuisance.) Continuing in this vein, traditional cafés, bingo venues, and the like have also been implemented.

The Town officials attempt to maintain control of Boomtowns ever-growing expansion but don’t expect this to last long. The rebels have since left Downtown Boomtown and have started infiltrating the rest of the city promoting debauchery and disdain, and by the time the next annual fair kicks off expect hell to once again resurface on the streets of Boomtown.

Super early bird tickets go on sale 1st February priced at the ridiculous amount of £63! These were sold out in less than two weeks last year so don’t miss out!

11th - 14th August - at a brand new epic secret location 1hr from London

For daily updates please join our new Facebook group.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Boomtown-Fair/176130945746461

New website coming early January

Many thanks and big love xxx

Edited January 17, 2011 by Town Mayor

[saskofreak]

and now im excited.

im getting a hell of a load of mates to go this year, some coming down from scotland.

[si_t]

Excellent - looking forward to this already

As this was initially a west country / Bristol affair - will you give any indication of how far it is from Brizzol?

Don't particularly want to buy Early Bird tickets and then realise I've gotta trek to Southend or Canterbury on a Friday afternoon....

[Town Mayor]

Hey Si - around 1 and half hours from Bristol !! londony kinda way, so closer than last year - and what a blinder the new site is :-)

Edited January 7, 2011 by Town Mayor

[si_t]

Just looked at website - Is there an announcement on the way, possibly?

edge of my seat.......

[saskofreak]

well bad manners are playing as they cancelled last year?

Edited January 14, 2011 by saskofreak

[Uprizing]

well bad manners are playing as they cancelled last year?

[Uprizing]

keep checking the website and the facebook page -

http://www.boomtownfair.co.uk

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boomtown-Fair/176130945746461

[Town Mayor]

The Lions den Reggae stage now fully upgraded bigger tent, bigger stage, much bigger sound!!

First artists announced !!

Barrington Levy

Tippa Irie and the fast east band

Jahtari feat. Soom t

Irration Steppas (live)

Aba Shanti

Congo natty feat. Top cat

Bongo Chilli and the friendly fire band

The Heatwave Feat. YT

The Ragga Twins Feat. Psychofreud

Million Dan

Gentlemens dub club

Dubkasm feat. Solo Banton

New website - http://www.boomtownfair.co.uk/

Early bird tickets on sale 1st February

[random_man]

ticket booked! cant wait!

[Town Mayor]

ticket booked! cant wait!

[random_man]

Tell me about it - I thought they would of stuck around for a few days!

Im going alone at the moment!

Any more clues on the headliners?

[si_t]

Super Early birds booked - 3 of us so far, now to get a few more involved.

Now to sit back and wait for a few announcements....

[si_t]

£16.50 for parking now

bl00dy nora......

fair enough, s'pose - but should have been documented whilst people were buying early birds.

Edited February 8, 2011 by si_t

[Town Mayor]

BOOMTOWN FAIR 2011 ANNOUNCES THE EPIC BASSLINE CIRCUS DANCE STAGE FIRST CONFIRMED ACTS!

DJ ZINC

TODDLA T & SEROCEE

MS DYNAMITE

THE BUG & FLOWDAN

REDLIGHT & MC DREAD

EMALKAY

RATPACK

ED SOLO b2b JFB

HIGH RANKIN

PYRAMID

WARRIOR ONE

RACK N RUIN

TAYO

SQUIRE OF GOTHOS

KOAN SOUND

THE MCMASH CLAN

PLUS TWO OF EUROPES BIGGEST BASS HEAVY ACTS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED TO HEADLINE THE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY,

[nogingerfool]

Can some one please give me a heads up on how kid friendly this fair is ? kids in question will be 8 and 6 at the time ,they have been at quite a few festivals for their age so no worries there just want to know if its family friendly ,ie is there a family camping area ,if there is a kid area in the fair, are idiots thin on the ground thats the main one anyway cheers in advance for the reply hope to be their x .

[Town Mayor]

Can some one please give me a heads up on how kid friendly this fair is ? kids in question will be 8 and 6 at the time ,they have been at quite a few festivals for their age so no worries there just want to know if its family friendly ,ie is there a family camping area ,if there is a kid area in the fair, are idiots thin on the ground thats the main one anyway cheers in advance for the reply hope to be their x .

[themuel]

Is there a train station nearby and is it easy to get from there to the location?!

I am a skinto student you see so will be looking to buy train tickets as early as possible for cheapness!

[random_man]

Gogol Bordello confirmed!

http://www.gogolbordello.com/us/tour

[seanshark]

Can some one please give me a heads up on how kid friendly this fair is ? kids in question will be 8 and 6 at the time ,they have been at quite a few festivals for their age so no worries there just want to know if its family friendly ,ie is there a family camping area ,if there is a kid area in the fair, are idiots thin on the ground thats the main one anyway cheers in advance for the reply hope to be their x .

[themuel]

Can anyone tell me where the nearest train station is? It has an impact on whether I get tickets..

[Town Mayor]

Hi the nearest train station is about 5 miles from the site and will be released to ticket holders only 6 weeks before the event

And for further info please email info@boomtownfair.co.uk as they can give you better info than us

Hope this helps

[RevKev]

Heya good people, I'm loving the line up so far I've not been to BTF before but the line up is making me wanna go! A quick question about alcohol- can i take cans(lager)/plastic bottles with various flavoured vodkas in and around the site?

cheers

[si_t]

revkev - there's no 'border control' between the camping and the music - but you're limited as to how much you can take in with you initially. Can't remember the limits, but it worked well for us last time.

[themuel]

Ah ok, thanks for the reply.

That means I won't be going as the only way I can afford it is to get the three month in advance cheap train fares.

I appreciate the secrecy but must admit that is a little extreme in my humble opinion!

No worries though.