It would appear that once again small, indepemdent festivals are under the cosh. In recent weeks announcements have been issued informing music fans that two popular festivals that have happened annually for the past few years in my area, Stone Valley South and Sign of The Times, have been cancelled. I think that this also extends to the Midland and Northern versions of Stone Valley as well. And I also heard that the Sunderland based Kubix festival has also gone to the wall.
A few years back it did seem to me that there were too many such festivals. It felt like any viable tract of land was being used to host a festival, but with so many on offer the resources of would be festival goers were overstretched, so things imploded... I assume. In more recent times things seemed to have evened out a bit but it seems not to be so.
One that seems to be well put together is next month's 'Forever Now' one day event, focussed on British post-punk (with just a dash of German 'pre-punk' added for good measure). All being well there are sufficient bands still in existance that would fit this 'post-punk' brief, meaning that Forever Now could be a fixture for a few years yet... provided that it is well run that is.
More Stranglers' to come, but as a bit of a break I thought that I would go through the running order and see if I can find a recent(ish) set from each band as a pre-cursor to the Milton Keynes event. Let's see how it goes eh?
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