's ethos, we're delighted to hold their launch party at The Luminaire. Read at this and tell us they're not onto a winner...
"We have always joked around, saying "wouldn’t it be nice to put on our own ‘perfect’ festival with our favourite line-up? It was only after having been to the lovely Green Man Festival in Wales in August 2005, that we finally thought to ourselves that we can make this happen and make it a quality festival where:
- you won’t get all the over hyped bands headlining
- most bands play 1 hour sets
- you can eat a range of quality food
- you can drink a range of quality beers
- the security guards are decent people, who show respect to everyone
- the crowd will be there for the music
So, the idea with the End of the Road Festival is to organise an intimate festival with our favourite artists, and to offer the bands an opportunity to play longer sets, compared to most other festivals. The festival will have a friendly and relaxed feel and the Larmer Tree Gardens (North Dorset, UK) is the perfect venue to create this kind of atmosphere. The music we are putting on will attract a music-loving, open minded and chilled out crowd. This is the kind of festival where the ENTIRE line-up is the headliner in itself!
End of the Road festival will take a lot of interest in all the ‘little things’ that make a great festival, such as good food (organic / local), good beer, caring & well-mannered staff, hygiene etc.
We are avoiding sponsorships in order to keep our creative freedom, and in order to avoid littering the beautiful venue with commercial banners. Therefore, we are so grateful to all bands who come for the fun of it and who play for a smaller fee than they are used to.
An aim is to involve the bands as much as possible, and there will be room for bands to DJ, hold workshops and show films. A marquee will be set up for various films and workshops throughout the weekend.
As one of the festival organisers is Swedish, there will also be a Scandinavian feel to the festival with quite a few Swedish bands and hopefully Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic too. But it won’t stop at that, there will also be Swedish food, clogs and other Scandinavian treats such as playing Kubb, singing Snapps songs, going for a tips promenad etc.
