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ABOVE: The Hoosiers, headlining Festival Too on Saturday, July 9th
Here comes Festival Too – big names and bumpy rides! Later this month, Festival Too 2011 kicks off one of the largest free music festivals in Europe with a host of big name artists and plenty of street entertainment. Charlotte Thorneycroft looks at this year’s line-up...
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ow one of the largest free music festivals in Europe, King’s Lynn’s Festival Too started with a tiny budget of just £5,000. Back in 1985, a group of likeminded local business people got together wanting to create a popular music event for the town which would be sponsorship driven. Local support was astounding and Festival Too rapidly grew to attract some of the top artists around as well as providing free street entertainment on the Saturdays of the event. From humble beginnings the budget for Festival Too is now £80,000 and because the event is completely non-profit
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making, every penny raised goes back into the fund for the following year’s festival. Over 250 sponsors now help to make Festival Too the attraction it is, including The Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk as well as many other national and local businesses and private individuals too. Previous acts have included chart toppers such as Lemar, Atomic Kitten, Bad Manners, The Human League and The Stranglers. This year’s line up is just as impressive with confirmed headline act The Hoosiers taking to the stage in association with KLFM on the evening of Saturday 9th July.
The popular indie/pop rock band are probably best known for their first debut hit in 2007 ‘Worried About Ray’ and their follow up single ‘Goodbye Mr A’, both of which made it into the top five in the UK charts. In April the band released their latest album ‘Bumpy Ride’ as a re-release of their former album ‘The Illusion of Safety’ with four added songs. Their performance at Festival Too will be a mix of old and new from the band with favourites sure to be a big hit with the large crowd expected to attend. Festival Too kicks off with a bang on Saturday 25th June with street performers
KLmagazine June 2011