Category: Festivals
Sep 9, 2010 | Category: DJ & Band Hire, Events, Festivals, Lighting Hire, Over The Moon Events, Unusual Tents and Tent Hire
We are stoked up to know that the licence has been approved by Windsor council for the 6th installment of Trystonbury. Over The Moon Events will be busy with providing structures, lighting, sound, bands and performers for this years event.
Band at Trystonbury 2008
There are still a few tickets available for the bargain price of £15. That’s just £5 a day!
More info on www.Trystonbury.com
Aug 16, 2010 | Category: Festivals, Green / Environment Stuff
Tags: Carbon Footprint, Julie's Bicycle
Festivals have pledged to cut their carbon footprint by 10% this year. The festivals have joined forces with 10:10 – a carbon reduction campaign which also works with businesses to reduce their impact on the environment.
As part of the scheme, organisers will also be assisted by Julie’s Bicycle to help them identify and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Festivals taking part include Latitude, Lovebox, T in the Park, Bestival and Big Chill. They will be encouraged to look at things such as:
- Using solar power and biofuel
- Using energy efficient lighting
- Onsite waste seperation and recycling
- Introducing biodegradeable or reycling cups
- Composting toilets
“Music festivals in the UK have been making huge efforts to reduce their environmental impacts and Julie’s Bicycle is really pleased to provide practical support which will help them fulfil their 10% reduction ambitions. 10:10 is an ideal campaign for festival-goers to sign up to, and we hope there will be plenty more summer pledges.” says Alison Tickell, JB Director.
The coalition of UK festivals, bought together by JB working with the 10:10 campaign, are implementing a carbon reduction programme which will see each event cut its own carbon footprint by 10%.
“British summertime wouldn’t be the same without music festivals and we feel privileged to be working with some of the very best this year”, says Eugenie Harvey, director of 10:10.
More info on Julie’s Bicycle
Aug 1, 2010 | Category: Events, Festivals, Military / Festival Tent Hire
Tags: 1940's, 1950's, Americana, Army Tent, Milkcow, Pretty Rubbish, Scantily Clad, theme, Vintage, Vintage Tents
While working recently at the Americana show at the Newark showground i purchased some copies of Milkcow magazine from a vintage clothing retailer.
I was impressed by its smart design format, the articles and how it showed that this scene is growing in the UK. There are some very stylish vendors of all things vintage in the magazine including clothes, jewellery, cars, bikes, music weekenders and tattoos. Burlesque is quite important in this scene with lots of pics of stylish femmes and the club nights springing up across the UK. We worked with the Scantily Clad burlesque girls at Glastonbury in 2009 when providing tents to the Rabbit Hole. We have noticed how popular our vintage army tents have been over the last few years, with 40’s theme events been a popular choice. See our gallery for pics of a 200 people event last summer.
Check out the Milkcow website, or even better the magazine, for some interesting articles on the music, clothes and fab retailers important to this vintage scene. With the Vintage Festival about to launch this summer it seems the time is ripe for nostalgia, fashion and fun mixing together at events. While wandering around Secret Garden last week there were certainly lots of fancy dress outfits featuring vintage clothes as well as retailers like PrettyRubbish selling clothing to meet this demand.
Vintage clothing trading area at Secret Garden
If you fancy hearing some of the music of the scene check out Mark Lamar’s Rock’n Roll show when it airs in Radio 2 or try Rockabilly Radio for non-stop 40’s/50’s tunes
Jul 28, 2010 | Category: DJ & Band Hire, Festivals, Lighting Hire, Military / Festival Tent Hire, Stretch Tent Hire
Tags: Decor, Festival Tails, Jungle, Leaf, military, Vintage
Over The Moon crew provided the tents, sound and lighting for the Festival Tails area at this years Secret Garden Party. The festival had 25,000 people in attendance (10,000 more than last year) and the large growth didn’t harm its boutique credentials. There were still a plethora of canvas unusual tents including lost of yurts, military marquees and Intents (Chai Wallahs had a fab set up again).
Intent 6x8M Joined as an awning frontage to a 6x6m Military Tent
We took down a 6×8m Intent and a 6×6m military tent joining the two together to make a welcoming cave like dance pad for the selling of Festival Tails and to make a venue in the evening.
Festival Tails at Secret Garden Party 2010
The atmosphere at the event was great , some lovely people were met and lots of people came and chatted over the course of the weekend. The weather played its part and the sun warmed the place, the occasional cloud kept it bearable and the rain stayed away.
SGP_Video of tents for Festival_Tails
Jul 15, 2010 | Category: Festivals
Tags: Associayion of Independent Festivals, Economy
A survey published in the latest edition of the Main Event magazine claims that visitors to independent festivals will contribute more than £130 million to the UK economy this year.
The continued and vital contribution of UK festivals to the British economy has been demonstrated once again by this year’s survey of more than 4,700 festival goers undertaken by the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF). Despite the worst recession in decades the UK Festival market has shown itself to be remarkably buoyant as Britons love affair with partying al fresco shows little sign of abating. Whilst 44.4% of those surveyed said that the recession has affected how much they spend on festivals.
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