Two Thousand Trees Festival
Two Thousand Trees Festival | |
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Genre | Punk rock, alternative rock, electronic, comedy |
Location(s) | Upcote Farm, Withington |
Years active | 2007–present |
Website | www |
2000trees festival is an independent music festival held from Wednesday to Sunday on the second week of July at Upcote Farm, Withington, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.[1] It offers a diverse selection of more than 120 acts across five stages, plus comedy, a large selection of food traders, themed bars and a headphone disco on the two main stages every night of the festival. It also won the Grass Roots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards 2010, 2013 and 2017[2] and the Best Medium-Sized UK Festival in 2018.[3]
2000trees was started by six friends in 2007.[4] The festival has performances across a number of stages which have evolved over the years, including: Main Stage, The Cave (second stage), The Axiom (formerly The Leaf Lounge), The Neu (formerly The Croft and The Greenhouse) plus a small acoustic stage in The Forest area.[5]
Past acts[]
2007[]
- InMe
- Frank Turner
- Brian James
- Brigade
- The Voom Blooms
- Devil Sold His Soul
- Goldrush
- Piney Gir
- Hesters Way
2008[]
- Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
- Art Brut
- Frank Turner
- The King Blues
- The Duke Spirit
- These New Puritans
- Future of the Left
- Slaves to Gravity
- The Ghost of a Thousand
- In Case of Fire
- Tubelord
2009[]
- British Sea Power
- Fightstar
- Red Light Company
- The King Blues
- Amplifier
- Dananananaykroyd
- Sucioperro
- Wild Beasts
- Rolo Tomassi
- Attack! Attack!
- The Chapman Family
- SixNationState
- Godsized
2010[]
- The Subways
- Frank Turner
- Twin Atlantic
- Bombay Bicycle Club
- 65daysofstatic
- Metronomy
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Future of the Left
- The Xcerts
- Three Trapped Tigers
- Johnny Flynn
- Errors
- Sonic Boom Six
- Vessels
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- Tubelord
- A Genuine Freakshow
- Left Side Brain
2011[]
- Frightened Rabbit
- Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
- The King Blues
- Sucioperro
- Los Campesinos!
- Japanese Voyeurs
- Mojo Fury
- Twin Atlantic
- Tellison
- Devil Sold His Soul
- Amplifier
- Maybeshewill
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- Ellen and the Escapades
- The Twilight Sad
- Exit Ten
- Malefice
- Your Demise
- Islet
2012[]
- Dry the River
- Lucy Rose
- Guillemots
- Summer Camp
- 65daysofstatic
- Gallows
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Rolo Tomassi
- Tellison
- Turbowolf
- Dog Is Dead
- Sharks
- The Xcerts
- VerseChorusVerse
- Johnny Foreigner
- We Were Promised Jetpacks
- Max Raptor
- Spy Catcher
- Hundred Reasons
2013[]
- Frank Turner
- Mystery Jets
- Funeral for a Friend
- Stornoway
- Future of the Left
- Nine Black Alps
- InMe
- We Are the Ocean
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- King Charles
- Fighting With Wire
- Crowns
- Gnarwolves
- Fight Like Apes
- GFM
- Maybeshewill
2014[]
- Band Of Skulls
- Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
- Arcane Roots
- Kids in Glass Houses
- Frightened Rabbit
- The Blackout
- The Bronx
- Blood Red Shoes
- Maybeshewill
- VerseChorusVerse
- Canterbury
- Johnny Foreigner
- Jamie Lenman
- Three Trapped Tigers
- Itch
- Heart in Hand
- GFM
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Wolf Alice
- Slaves
- CCTV Allstars
2015[]
- Alkaline Trio
- Deaf Havana
- Idlewild
- The Xcerts
- The Subways
- We Are The Ocean
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Nothing But Thieves
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- The Skints
- Mclusky
- Future of the Left
- Defeater
- Turbowolf
- Kerbdog
- Young Guns
- GFM
- Creeper
- Milk Teeth
2016[]
- Refused
- Twin Atlantic
- Mallory Knox
- Neck Deep
- While She Sleeps
- The Bronx
- Basement
- The King Blues
- Lonely the Brave
- Moose Blood
- We Were Promised Jetpacks
- Counterfeit
- Arcane Roots
- GFM
- Martha Phillips
- The Xcerts
- Dinosaur Pile Up
- Creeper
- The Smith Street Band
- Max Raptor
2017[]
- Mallory Knox
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Young Guns
- Dinosaur Pile-Up
- Feed The Rhino
- Roam (band)
- Muncie Girls
- blackfoxxes
- Tigercub
- Puppy
- Straight Lines
- Ducking Punches
- Grumble Bee
- Bellevue Days
- Jonah Matranga
- Adam Carpenter
- Kamikaze Girls
- Nothing But Thieves
- Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
- The Wonder Years
- Jamie Lenman
- Skinny Lister
- Will Varley
- Black Peaks (band)
- Queen Kwong
- Brutus
- Steven Battelle
- Vukovi
- De Staat
- Tall Ships
- Decade
- Wallflower
- wars
- Greywind
- Strange Bones
- Making Monsters
- Ducking Punches
- SHVPES
- Away Days
- Milestones
- Weirds
- Personal Best
- Cassells
- Louise Distras
- The St. Pierre Snake Invasion
- Polary
- Slaves
- Lower Than Atlantis
- The Front Bottoms
- The Menzingers
- Honey Blood
- Beach Slang
- Gnarwolves
- Kevin Devine
- Rolo Tomassi
- Area 11
- The One Hundred
- Sløtface
- The Hyena Kill
- Get Inuit
- Acres
- Peaness
- MOSES
- Petrol Girls
- GFM
- Big Spring
- Kamikaze Girls
- Bad Sign
- Doe
- Fizzy Blood
- Giants
- Apologies, I Have None
- Soeur
2018[]
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- Andy Merritt
- Arcane Roots
- Asylums
- At the Drive-in
- Avalanche Party
- Bad Sign
- Basement
- Beans on Toast
- Ben Marwood
- Bitch Falcon
- Black Foxxes
- Black Futures
- Black Honey
- Black Peaks
- Blood Command
- Blood Red Shoes
- Bloody Knees
- Boston Manor
- Brutus
- Bryde
- Caleb Harris
- Chapter and Verse
- Chloe Glover
- Conjurer
- Courage My Love
- COVE
- Crazy Arm
- Creeper
- Dave McPherson (INME)
- Demob Happy
- Dottie
- Dream State
- Dream Wife
- Elijah Miller
- Enter Shikari
- Fangclub
- Fatherson
- Forever Cult
- Frauds
- Funeral Shakes
- Gallops
- Gender Roles
- GFM
- Gloo
- Gold Key
- GroundCulture
- Grumble Bee
- Haggard Cat
- Hell is for Heroes
- Hellions
- Ho99o9
- Holding Absence
- Holiday Oscar
- Hush Mozey
- Imperial Leisure
- InTechnicolour
- Jack Louis Cooper
- James Humphries
- Jamie Lenman
- Jonah Matranga
- Jordan Grant
- Karim
- La Lune
- Lady Bird
- Louise Distras
- Luke Marshall Black
- Luke Rainsford
- Luvia
- Mallory Knox
- Mantra
- Marius Bear
- Marmozets
- Mauwe
- Meat Wave
- Moose Blood
- Muskets
- My Vitriol
- Nelson Can
- Nervus
- No Violet
- Nova Twins
- Pace
- Palm Reader
- PD Liddle
- Phoxjaw
- PINS
- Press to Meco
- Queen Kwong
- Raging Speedhorn
- Reigning Days
- Saint Leonard's Horses
- Sean McGowan
- Shvpes
- Sick Joy
- SikTh
- Skinny Lister
- Sløtface
- Soeur
- Sun Arcana
- Swedish Death Candy
- The Dirty Nil
- The Kenneths
- The Xcerts
- Thrill Collins
- Touche Amore
- Turbowolf
- Turnstile
- Twin Atlantic
- Undead Raisins
- Vodun
- Vukovi
- We Were Promised Jetpacks
- Will Varley
- Woes
2019[]
- Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls
- You Me At Six
- While She Sleeps
- Every Time I Die
- Frank Iero and the Future Violents
- Skinny Lister
- Mongol Horde
- Therapy?
- Jamie Lenman
- Rolo Tomassi
- Estrons
- Indoor Pets
- Comeback Kid
- DANGERFACE
- Cavetown
- Hands Like Houses
- Milk Teeth
- Grace Petrie
- Martha
- Puppy
- Muncie Girls
- Single Mothers
- Møl
- Higher Power
- Gouge Away
- Loathe
- GFM
- Nervus
- Orchards
- Life
- Petrol Girls
- St Pierre Snake Invasion
- Wstr
- Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun
- Crazy Arm
- Sean McGowan
- Imperial Leisure
- Oxygen Thief
- Johnny Lloyd
- Brand New Friend
- Deux Furieuses
- Groundculture
- The Drew Thompson Foundation
- Heavy Lungs
- Indigo Lo
- Lice
- Spielbergs
- Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam
- Phoxjaw
- Frauds
- False Advertising
2020[]
2000trees was cancelled due to COVID-19.[6]
2021[]
2000trees was cancelled for the second consecutive year due to complications relating to COVID-19, including international travel restrictions preventing acts from entering the United Kingdom, and the government not providing insurance to the live events industry in the event the festival would need to be cancelled.[7]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "2000trees 2021". Eventbrite. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "UK Festival Awards 2010: winners in full". Virtual Festivals. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "2018 WINNERS". UK Festival Awards. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "ARCHIVE FOR 2013". Two Thousand Trees Festival. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "2000 Trees Music Festival". Bolt Hole Retreats. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ Peacock, Tim (2020-04-29). "NEWS: 2000 Trees Festival 2020 has been cancelled; tickets valid for 2021!". Dead Press. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ^ "2000trees Festival postponed to 2022 due to travel concerns and lack of COVID cancellation insurance". NME. 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
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