Sinister: Belle & Sebastian gig details - FESTIVAL CONFIRMED!!!

[Katrina House]

Hi all ...

here's the press release for the fest!

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BOWLIE WEEKENDER

APRIL 23RD - APRIL 25TH 1999 @ CAMBER SANDS HOLIDAY CENTRE UK

CONFIRMED LINE-UP

Belle & Sebastian
Mercury Rev
Pavement (tbc)
The Divine Comedy
Cornelius
The Delgados
Broadcast
Sleater-Kinney
The Pastels
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Looper
Vic Godard
Cinema
V-Twin
Camera Obscura
+ more to be confirmed

Tickets are £85.00 (eighty five pounds) for a weekend pass to include
festival entrance and chalet accommodation.  The capacity is limited to
2,600 and will go on sale on Saturday 20th February 1999 exclusively
available from Ticketweb, either by phone on 0171-771-2000 or online at
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk

Apartments must be booked as a complete 4,5,6 or 7 bed unit. A £25.00
(twenty five pounds) refundable damages deposit will be required from
each person on arrival at the site and will be refunded when leaving the
site.

*BOWLIE WEEKENDER* - the explanation!

The idea for this festival came from Stuart Murdoch and Neil Robertson
from the Belle & Sebastian camp whereby they wanted to take over a
holiday camp and stage a festival over a weekend with exciting new and
already established bands of their choice.  The location for the site is
The Camber Sands Holiday Centre in Camber Sands between Hastings & Rye. 
It is set to take place on April 23rd until April 25th.

Tickets are being issued as a weekend pass only as the allocation is
limited to 2,600 and will be sold as a package where you gain entrance
to the festival but this will also include a chalet apartment with TV
and private cooking and shower facilities.  Each apartment sleeps four
to six people and everyone will be encouraged to take apartments with
friends as no one can take an apartment for four unless they pay for
four tickets.  This may appear to be too formal but due to the very
limited allocation and the proposed line-up it is likely to sell very
fast.  Apartments will be available from Friday afternoon until Monday
morning and a returnable deposit of around £25.00 will be refunded on
inspection of the apartment after the festival is finished.  The weekend
pass to include accommodation and festival entrance will be £85.00.

The live music will take place from Friday until Sunday with a club
night after each show with all ticket holders will be able to make full
use of all the facilities which include catering outlets, late bars
until 4am, Go-Karting, Swimming, Playstations etc.  And the beach is a
7-minute walk from the site.

The live music will be divided into two stages.  The main stage has a
capacity of 2,300 people and the smaller stage has a 950 capacity.  Both
are indoor venues so this defeats the general weather concerns that a
lot of festivals encounter.  Each person that purchases a ticket will be
advised that the rooms have strict capacity and entrance will be on a
first come first served basis as to avoid overcrowding.  There is a
third smaller venue with a bar on the site, which will have video
monitors broadcasting live from the main stage as it happens.

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so there you have it!  we understand that there might be some of you out
there that may be travellling a long way on your own or just with one
mate and booking a four bedroom chalet is going to be a bit expensive
for you.  so the best solution we can offer is for you all to be able to
speak to each other and group up into fours - a bit like school camp!

to help you with this, we're going to make a new message board on the
belle & sebastian site which you can use to post and respond to requests
for space + mates to share with!  this will probably be online on monday
15th february, so check out http://www.jeepster.co.uk/belleandsebastian/
then!

(please note, this will be unmoderated, but anyone abusing the board
will have their post removed)

we'll see you all there!

cheers,
Katrina + David
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