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Westmill Farm Festival

SPONSORED, PARTNERED AND BACKED BY: YOUTH CONNEXIONS, HERTFORDSHIRE MUSIC SERVICE, GRAPHIC NATURE STUDIOS, THE CREAM ROOM STUDIO and YP SOUND

After a hugely enjoyable weekend last year, Westmill Farm Festival is back for 2009 on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June – and since it straddles the Summer Solstice, organisers Kev ‘Hertford’s Mr Music’ Saunders and Pippa Deeble-Rogers are making sure we can look forward to two enjoyably long, lazy days with more than 50 of the best established and up and coming bands and solo performers from the Herts area and beyond.

‘This year, we’re planning to keep all the action in the main field with a main stage roughly where it was last year and a slightly smaller one further downhill towards the lakes – and we’ll be alternating music styles between the stages so that there’s always a choice!’ says Kev.

Thanks to the organisers’ collaboration with Hertfordshire Music Service and Herts Youth Connexions, the festival will be featuring a dedicated YOUNG BANDS’ STAGE on the Saturday. Entitled the SEX LIES AND LOVE STAGE, this will feature about 12 bands and soloists nominated by local schools and Hertfordshire Music Service.

Presented and managed by a committee of young people overseen by Kev and Vanessa Rogers from Youth Connexions, this stage aims to promote ‘positive relationships among young people’ – with advice and counselling services on issues such as self-esteem, respect for yourself and others, sexual health, breast cancer, cervical cancer, bullying and much more besides.

On Sunday that same stage becomes THE INSOMNIA MUSIC LIVE STAGE, presenting, among many others, JUAN ZELADA and TOM DIBB.

AND THEN… Just to be fair to the older crowd, Kev and Pippa are adding THE OLD(ER!) BANDS’ stage, featuring THE DOCTORS, BLIND DRUNK JULES and BLACKBIRD playing adult-orientated rock and blues covers.

As well as all the bands(and loads more to come!) and truly beautiful lakeside scenery, the festival offers a host of other activities and attractions including Sphereing, rock climbing wall, archery, shooting range, kids’ karting, family music workshops and a Wild West Rodeo bull riding competition.

MAIN STAGE LINE-UP

BEN WESTBEECH (DJ set)  – performing as a special favour to Kev, Ben’s now something of a local and international legend, having gone from strength to strength since signing with Gilles Peterson’s BROWNSWOOD label and enjoying global success with his debut album of Drum ‘n’ Bass, Trip Hop and House flavoured grooves.

ZARIF – Fresh from supporting BEYONCE (on her UK tour) and ALESHA DIXON, fast-rising star ZARIF hits Westmill Farm, where she’s headlining the INSOMNIA MUSIC LIVE STAGE on Sunday 21st June with an acoustic set featuring ZARIF herself plus three members of the band.

EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS – the legendary post-punk R&B rockers, playing all their hits, including DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO, TEENAGE DEPRESSION and GET OUT OF MEMPHIS

THE KAISER THIEFS – awesome tribute to THE KAISER CHIEFS, playing all their hits including Ruby and I Predict a Riot.

BLURB – Red-hot BLUR tribute

THE TRAILER TRASH ORCHESTRA – regulars at Glastonbury, this cowboy hatted, fiddle and banjo-toting combo are a hugely enjoyable cross between Johnny Cash and The Ramones with their selection of country punk classics in the making.

THE PALM TREE CLUB – one of the area’s most popular bands of the late eighties, featuring BROTHER’S BEYOND’S NATHAN MOORE (though sadly not for this show) the PTC recently re-formed after a gap of more than 20 years – and their good time rebel reggae still never fails to get the audience on its feet!

THE TRASH - featuring Kev Saunders in the Joe Strummer role, the only CLASH tribute band that matters, plays all the Clash classics from London Calling, I Fought the Law and Bankrobber to Rock the Casbah and Should I Stay or Should I go.

DISTORTED BREED – Jim Distortion of Perfect Distortion and Hertford Marquee fame-is back with a hot new ‘dirt rock’ band, a lethal rock cocktail that’s powerful, passionate, poisonous… And addictive.

PROCEED - Hertford’s hottest metal band. “a combination of rich melodies, prog influences, and occasional staccato bursts of screamo, a genuine sense of warmth infusing their set. [KKKK]” 
- Kerrang Magazine

PAIGE

SPIKED

CRIMZEN

PUCK

THE BLACK TRICKS

THE FREEWHEELIN’ TROUBADOR

ROB CLYDESDALE

DREGS OF SOCIETY – Ska punk nutters who went down a storm last year and at Rock at the Castle. Mass conga guaranteed!

PSYCHOHERO

JONA OV ARC

THE FUSES