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(Date Posted:05/11/2007 8:30 PM)
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BBC4 are currently showing a short series of programmes of highlights from the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival.Bellowhead will be featured this coming Friday (9th November), 20.30 on BBC4.http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/cambridgefolkfestival/2007/schedule/
Thanks firehazard.
Has this set of programs been shown before? It's quite late on in the year for a highlights show...
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(Date Posted:06/11/2007 10:23 AM)
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Has this set of programs been shown before? It's quite late on in the year for a highlights show...Trunkles.
No, it's the first time they've been broadcast. Maybe the BBC have been hanging on to them to cheer us up on the dark November nights. 
Great summer memories, anyway.
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(Date Posted:06/11/2007 6:19 PM)
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Great summer memories, anyway.
Not for me ... I couldn't stand Cambridge this year and have vowed never to go again. 
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(Date Posted:07/11/2007 10:02 AM)
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I couldn't stand Cambridge this year and have vowed never to go again.Trunkles
Really? Sorry to hear that... we had a fantastic time at the festival this year. And the closing set by Bellowhead was possibly the best thing I've ever heard/seen there. Certainly the best closing act.
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(Date Posted:07/11/2007 1:28 PM)
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Not for me ... I couldn't stand Cambridge this year and have vowed never to go again.Trunkles
Oh? What was so bad about it? This year was my first year, so of course I loved it Mind you, we're planning some others for next year - really looking forward to Shepley!
Sadly I'm otherwise engaged this Friday, but have informed the parents that they'll have to get their whizzy new digital recorder thing-y working in time to catch it for me!
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(Date Posted:07/11/2007 2:18 PM)
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Sadly I'm otherwise engaged this Friday, but have informed the parents that they'll have to get their whizzy new digital recorder thing-y working in time to catch it for me!
Yes, Friday isn't the best evening for catching the programme live, as it were. 'Twill be recorded for viewing later that night or over the weekend. Mind you, in this household no parent would be entrusted with actually making the recorder thingy work! Definitely a job for the young'uns. 
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(Date Posted:07/11/2007 4:25 PM)
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Oh? What was so bad about it? This year was my first year, so of course I loved itMind you, we're planning some others for next year - really looking forward to Shepley!Sadly I'm otherwise engaged this Friday, but have informed the parents that they'll have to get their whizzy new digital recorder thing-y working in time to catch it for me!
I'd be interested to know as well. Never been to CFF but debating next year whether to forego a proper holiday and just do more festivals. This was one that we thought about. Planning so far, Wychwood, Trowbridge, Beautiful days, Oxford and Shrewsbury. Been to these before apart from Beautiful Days. Any other new festivals will mainly depend on where Bellowhead are playing
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(Date Posted:07/11/2007 11:45 PM)
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I'd be interested to know as well.
Well.... the resaon I go to festivals is for the music, to see it ,hear it, live it and enjoy it.
Cambridge is full of people who don't care about it and only attend, as far as I can make out, because it is the place to be 'seen' and so they can say 'oh I've been to a festival'. People who will sit out side the beer tent or the stalls all day, going nowhere near the music and making so much of a racket that it is impossible to hear whats going on if your trapped anywhere near them. Even if you can get there early enough to be somewhere near the stage, the festival has now out-grown the site so much that there is not an inch of space to be found anywhere so the only thing you can do it sit, pended in like a sheep, in the baking hot sun (usually!) surrounded by increasing drunk people while not being able to see or hear the music. Moving around the site is next to impossiable as you are consently tripping over people, having to push passed them, or fight you way through the sea of garden furniture that litters the site.
I used to go to Cambridge every year but no more. I just find the whole thing deeply unpleasent and as much as I love the music I'm just not willing to put up with it anymore. I don't enjoy it and think it's rather a waste of time and money.
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(Date Posted:07/11/2007 11:54 PM)
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Reply to : CazzarI'd be interested to know as well.Well.... the resaon I go to festivals is for the music, to see it ,hear it, live it and enjoy it.Cambridge is full of people who don't care about it and only attend, as far as I can make out, because it is the place to be 'seen' and so they can say 'oh I've been to a festival'. People who will sit out sidethe beer tent or the stalls all day, going nowhere near the music and making so much of a racket that it isimpossible to hear whats going on if your trapped anywhere near them. Even if youcan get thereearly enough to be somewhere near thestage, the festival has now out-grown the site so much that there is not an inch of space to be found anywhere so the only thing you can do it
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 12:00 AM)
Trunkles, Cambridge sounds deeply unpleasant then. Had heard from someone at Shrewsbury FF that Cambridge was not what it used to be
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 10:28 AM)
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience, Trunkles.
Personally I still love the Cambridge Folk Fest. Like all festivals, it varies from year to year. But it's a great little site, with (on the whole) friendly people, and an excellent booking policy. After many years of going there, we've sort of worked out the best way to get around the site without too much trouble, and the best places to be if you want to hear the music. We tend not to spend too much time on the main stage, as it does get a bit, erm, congested there. We prefer Stage 2, where it's not too difficult to get to a good position, and where people do seem, on the whole, to come to listen to the music (and don't bring their garden furniture). Many of the headliners play both main stages at some point during the weekend. And sometimes best of all is the Club Tent, for a more "intimate" music experience. And the various jams that go on around the site. And I think the best weekends we've had there are when we've decided to "chill" and not worry too much about what particular acts we see or don't see. And have discovered a lot of great music that way.
Main problem is the ticketing. Sells out in a mad rush, and it's getting increasingly difficult to get tickets.
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 12:35 PM)
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Reply to : firebird82Oh? What was so bad about it? This year was my first year, so of course I loved itMind you, we're planning some others for next year - really looking forward to Shepley!Sadly I'm otherwise engaged this Friday, but have informed the parents that they'll have to get their whizzy new digital recorder thing-y working in time to catch it for me!I'd be interested to know as well. Never been to CFF but debating next year whether to forego a proper holiday and just do more festivals. This was one that we thought about. Planning so far, Wychwood, Trowbridge, Beautiful days, Oxford and Shrewsbury.Been to these beforeapart from Beautiful Da
Beautiful Days is completely fantastic, even in ankle deep mud like this year, but you need to be VERY QUICK to get a ticket, it sells out in about a day I think. This is because they have a "no more than 10,000 people" policy for their site, which means you don't get the overcrowding you get elsewhere - e.g. Cambridge as Trunkles says, and on the old Reading Womad site, much as I loved it, it was 'slightly' packed in 2006 - though they could probably get more on if they chose to. I would go to BD regardless of who was playing, the acts booked are eclectic and the atmosphere is brilliant!
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 3:23 PM)
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Beautiful Days is completely fantastic, even in ankle deep mud like this year, but you need to b
thanks for that Fee, joined 'on the level' to make sure I get tickets
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 3:35 PM)
Over crowding just ruins the whole event for me.
It would be so much better if more festivals had a 'no more than 'x' number of people' poilcy. Cambridge has changed alot since I first went and it's a shame they don't have the a policy like that as it would improve it no end. It shouldn't be the case that you can't see the acts you want to just because of the shear number of people.
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 3:51 PM)
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Over crowding just ruins the whole event for me.It would be so much better if more festivals had a 'no more than 'x' number of people' poilcy. Cambridge has changed alot since I first went and it's a shame they don't have the a policy like that as it would improve it no end.It shouldn't be the case that you can't see the acts you want to just because of the shear number of people.Trunkles.
That's a good point - I think we didn't mind *too* much at Cambridge because we weren't all that interested in the headline acts, so we did spend a fair amount of time in either the club tent or stage 2. But I'm new to festival-going, so perhaps I'll get a bit more choosy in future. Beautiful Days does look fantastic - might add that to my list for next year now!
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 3:58 PM)
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Over crowding just ruins the whole event for me.It would be so much better if more festivals had a 'no more than 'x' number of people' poilcy. Cambridge has changed alot since I first went and it's a shame they don't have the a policy like that...
I do know what you mean. But obviously Cambridge only sell a limited number of tickets, as they sell out every year. If you want a weekend ticket they have to be bought as soon as they go on sale. So I assume you're meaning that the number of tickets they sell is too high?
It's always seemed to me that at Cambridge there are a large number of people who more or less "set up camp" on the main stage for the weekend, and never venture any further than that. And yes, they do tend to bring their garden furniture with them... "There's more garden furniture here than in B&Q," a friend of mine said a couple of years ago. I know the organisers are trying to deal with that issue. We do go to the main stage if there are acts we really want to see, and we can usually find a place to see and hear them. But we've found that the way to avoid the B&Q set is to spend more time on the other stages, where it's reasonably easy to get much closer to the action. And you still see most of the same acts. The garden furniture people don't tend to venture that far.
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 4:21 PM)
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more garden furniture than B&Q
Have you ever been to Cropredy? A friend of ours started calling it Chairport Convention !!! 
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 6:59 PM)
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I do know what you mean. But obviously Cambridge only sell a limited number of tickets, as they sell out every year. If you want a weekend ticket they have to be bought as soon as they go on sale. So I assume you're meaning that the number of tickets they sell is too high?It's always seemed to me that at Cambridge there are a large number of people who more or less "set up camp" on the main stage for the weekend, and never venture any further than that. And yes, they do tend to bring thei
Yes, I think they sell to many tickets...
If your are happy to miss out on some of the acts and are content with spending time at the club tent, then Cambridge is fine as a festival. I'm not knocking anyone who is happy to do that and enjoys Cambridge for what it is - but its just not for me...
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 7:55 PM)
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If your are happy to miss out on some of the acts andare content with spending time at the club tent, then Cambridge is fine as a festival.
Trunkles, I know what you mean. I know that I enjoy any festival best when I wander around and sample what's on offer at the various stages/tents. But I realise that's not what everyone wants to do. At Cambridge, the Club Tent has had some excellent acts over the years, and some of the showcase performances there give the chance to see some brilliant, and high-profile, performers in an intimate setting, so I like it a lot. We tend to spend most of our time either there or on Stage 2, and only go to the Main Stage when there's an act we really want to see. And actually I reckon you get the most music that way. It suits us like that. But if that's not the sort of thing you want to do, then that's fair enough. Each to their own, of course.
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(Date Posted:08/11/2007 8:26 PM)
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Trunkles, I know what you mean. I know that I enjoy any festival best when I wander around and sample what's on offer at the various stages/tents. But I realise that's not what everyone wants to do. At Cambridge, the Club Tent has had some excellent acts over the years, and some of the showcase performances there give the chance to see some brilliant, and high-profile, performers in an intimate setting, so I like it a lot. We tend to spend most of our time either there or on Stage 2, and only go to the Main Stage when there's an act we really want to see. And actually I reckon you get the most music tha
Fair enough. 
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(Date Posted:10/11/2007 5:28 PM)
I've been going for 10 years and I still love it. It is possible to get to the front to see the acts you really want to, and I just love the 'buzz' of it.
The programme this week (which is what the topic was originally  ) was very good. Bellowhead, Martin Simpson,Kate Rusby. Shame they didn't film the Oysterband.
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(Date Posted:10/11/2007 10:53 PM)
Argh, knew I shouldn't have left the recording to the parents - they failed! (well, failed to remember, which is just as bad!). It would have been nice to see some of Oysterband, since we heard but didn't really *see* them at the time! Anyone know if it's being repeated? I'm not completely au fait with all these multiple channels and where repeats turn up..
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