Category: Military / Festival Tent Hire
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
May 8, 2010 | Category: Canvas Adventures, Festivals, Military / Festival Tent Hire
Tags: Twitter
Now I have an Iphone I can keep on track with emails when at events across the UK, very handy and it has prompted me to look into this Twitter malarky. You can now keep track of our canvas adventures,whereabouts, sights and sounds at festivals and parties this summer. As we have a cow in our logo we thought our Twitter id would be OverTheMoooon.
http://twitter.com/OverTheMooooon
Aug 21, 2009 | Category: Festivals, Military / Festival Tent Hire
Tags: festival, Kelmarsh Hall, Military Tent, reggae, Shamabala
Drove by the site of the Shambala festival today while out and about with a tipi. Got a touch of butterflies as I looked forward to next week’s festival. Over The Moon Tents will be providing our vintage military green tent for the reggae area. While looking at the festivals’s website I got to wondering what exactly Shambala means. Not surprised to find its a meaningful word. The crew will be onsite to check the festival lives up to its name.
http://www.shambalafestival.org
Externally, Shambhala was a geographic location, a seat of inspiration where the Buddha taught the Kalachakra Tantra, the Tantra of the Wheel of Time. In the mythology of Bon, the native religion of Tibet, Shambhala was a Central Asian kingdom, the origin and center of the world whence issued all spiritual energies.
Internally, Shambhala is the dharma chakra, located in the heart of all beings. It is the symbol for mind, completing the trinity of body, speech, and mind.
The esoteric meaning of Shambhala is tathagatagarbha, buddha-nature, the essence of all things. It transcends existence and non-existence and is the ground of both samsara and nirvana. According to the Kalachakra Tantra, the Emperor of Shambhala, Rigden, waged war against and subdued the Three Lords of Materialism: the Lord of Form, the Lord of Speech, and the Lord of Mind. In the Dark Age these Three Lords extend their power and seduction, enslaving the human mind with psychological and spiritual materialism. When Shambhala is acknowledged—when buddha-nature shines through—the strategies of the Three Lords become irrelevant and the teachings of the Kalachakra Tantra are realized.
Aug 6, 2009 | Category: Canvas Adventures, Festivals, Military / Festival Tent Hire
Over The Moon tents has been delighted to get involved with the Blank Canvas project at this years Big Chill Festival. Inspired by seeing the spectacle of dozens of tents given to the homeless and placed along the Canal Saint Martin in Paris, artist Cedric Christie decided to create a charity project that would echo this gesture.
Over The Moon provided an eight section vintage army marquee and two three section ones as the shelter and backdrop inside which the artist’s pup tents are displayed.
Looking into the marquee at one of the artist decorated tents
The boards are assembled inside the marquee
More Info on the Big chill site
http://www.bigchill.net/news/2009/06/the-blank-canvas-project/
and here
http://www.blankcanvasproject.org/index.html
