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Budstock! Just one week to go until 20th anniversary free live music festival!

24th July 2009

Budstock, Devon’s longest running free live music festival, takes place again on Budleigh Salterton seafront on Saturday August 1st, from midday until midnight.

This year, the event is following the same format that worked so successfully the last time it was held in 2007, as a total of 20 bands and live music acts alternate between the 2 stages for a 12-hour celebration of great live music.

This year offers an eclectic mix of top local bands and acts from further afield. Highlights among the line-up include:

Clowns ( Brighton)

A new band with an exciting pedigree, Clowns are fast gaining a great deal of attention. Includes members of top bands Brakes and Electric Soft Parade along with ex-Poppycocks frontman Miles Heathfield and ex-Garageland guitarist Andrew “Clanger” Claridge. This promises to be an explosive performance.

The Quails (Teignmouth)

This 5-piece band were crowned top indy band of 2008 by leading London live music venue Halfmoon in Putney, and won the Plymouth Hub’s Battle of the Bands.

Scaramoose

A 3-piece local band that has attracted a great deal of positive press and radio play on BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Bristol and South Hams Radio. Their latest EP, “Beginnings”, was released last month.

Gill ( Plymouth)

Another 3-piece, delivering melancholy indie-pop with a gutsy edge. Recent highlights have been the inclusion of a track on a CD for music industry magazine Music and a show at the prestigious Bristol Fringe Festival.

Ellie Williams ( Exeter)

An acoustic singer-songwriter, Ellie recently became the 18 th artist to raise $50,000 through the innovative website Sellaband.com to record her first full-length album, which is due for release this summer.

This year also sees the launch of Budstock Ale, a specially brewed and branded limited edition golden real ale being produced by the Glastonbury Brewery especially for our 2009 event to celebrate 20 years. It will be available at the event and sold in local stores.

The beer tent is run by Budleigh pub The Feathers in conjunction with the local branch of Threshers. Hot food, including a traditional hog roast, comes courtesy of Kenniford Farm, and traditional handmade ice creams are also being served.

Budstock was founded in 1989 by Joe Holroyd and his younger brother Toby. Joe continues to organise the event along with friends as a fitting tribute to Toby, who was tragically killed in a road accident while returning home from in Spain in 1996. All the bands play for free.

In 1997, a little known trio from Teignmouth called Muse played at Budstock. They went on to become one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world.

Of the event, organiser Joe Holroyd said:

“People are often surprised that an event like this happens at all. Budleigh’s a pretty quiet town, and the site is a stunning spot on the seafront overlooking Otter Head. We have considered making it bigger, finding a new site and charging people, but then it becomes a business rather than a labour of love. That’s what gives Budstock such a unique spirit.

This year things have definitely been harder. Costs have risen for nearly everything, and we have to provide toilets, fire safety, first aid and licensed security. We are very fortunate that Panasonic Store have agreed to be the main sponsor again, and we raise much needed funds through the food and drink concessions, with a bucket collection on the day.”

As well as Panasonic Store, this year Budstock has received additional financial support from Vine Orchards Solicitors in Exmouth and Budleigh Lions, plus support in kind from Bristol Schools Camp, Red Rocket Design, Ashley House Printing and Fernbank Advertising.

 

For more details, please contact one of the following:

Tim Burley, 07967 390654, theburleys@gmail.com

Joe Holroyd, 07776 406433, jolyonholroyd@hotmail.com


Full band line up (in alphabetical order)

  • The Akibas
  • Casitas
  • The Chris Stuckey Band
  • Clowns
  • Detor
  • Ellie Williams
  • Gill
  • The Gooseneck Steppers (aka Audible & Carpetface)
  • Jill Draper
  • Melosa
  • Nuk Chorris
  • Ono Palindromes
  • The Quails
  • Scaramoose
  • Tandy Hard
  • Terrible Strangers
  • The Thujones
  • Thirty Pounds of Bone
  • Veil Cassini

Site location

By Lime Kiln Car Park, Seafront, Budleigh Salterton (at the mouth of the River Otter)