Linkylea... wonderful one-night festival just east of Edinburgh...

[Spartacus Mars]

Just a note about a local one-night festival I enjoy each year near Edinburgh.

LINKYLEA

8th September 2012

One day/night

(Some stay Sunday night but you should help the Monday morning litter pickers if you do!!!)

Gifford, Lothians (Twenty miles east of Edinburgh)

EH41 4PE

Tickets £20

Camping £5 per tent

http://www.linkyleafestival.org.uk/

Nice campsite, gorgeous area, good bar, BBQs, kiddy-orientated stuff, craft stalls.

Musically bands during the day/evening, DJs till dawn, and if previous years are to go by tons of musicians jamming around the various camp-fires.

They've raised some £30K over the years for an Indian orphanage Gwalinor... keeping up the good work.

Nice cause, nice people, nice neck of the woods. (Also, there are woods nearby - nice!)

Here endeth the Festival spam. I guess can field a few questions if required.

Edited August 21, 2012 by Spartacus Mars

[Stanton]

Went along to this last year. Had a good time, music was hit and miss but we brought our generator and speakers so spent most of the time at our tents. All for a good cause though, probs head along again this year. Was it not July last year?

[Spartacus Mars]

Missed last year actually. They're certainly not on any particular date...

Music is varied, depends on curator. Peaked with really credible bands there when Susan was curating, troughed with bad dad rock (ten bands of fat bald middle aged men each covering the Stones but increasingly sounding like Chris De Burgh) when the site owners curated it.

God knows what it'll be this year. The site lists all their Facebook pages but I never research bands before going to a Festival.

Besides, it's a really ad-hoc sound-systems / camp-fire jams vibe though eh?

PS... I know the Phoenix quite well, used to live nearby, totally a Head pub. ;-)

Edited August 21, 2012 by Spartacus Mars