GuilFest
, formerly the Guildford Festival of Folk and Blues
is a music festival held in Stoke Park, Guildford, England each July. The festival, like the larger Glastonbury Festival, features a range of genres including rock, folk, blues, and in recent years pop. In 2006 GuilFest was awarded the title of "Best Family Festival" in the UK Festival awards. [1]
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Previous GuilFests
The event was started in 1992 by Tony Scott, a Guildford businessman who is a keen festival-goer. From 1992 to 1994 it was a one day event. In 1995 it became a two day event with onsite camping and was moved to nearby
Loseley Park. GuilFest returned to Stoke Park in 1996 and became a three day festival in 1997 with headliners
Jethro Tull.
1998 acts included
Space,
Shed Seven and
The Lightning Seeds.
1999 acts included
James,
The Saw Doctors and
Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.
2000 was
Van Morrison,
Joan Armatrading,
David Gray,
Culture Club,
Motörhead and
Rolf Harris.
2001 included
Pulp,
James,
Reef,
Dreadzone,
Lonnie Donegan and
Dead Men Walking.
2002 acts included
Jools Holland,
Fun Lovin' Criminals and
The Pretenders .
In 2003, the main acts were
Madness,
Alice Cooper,
The Darkness and
Atomic Kitten.
In 2004 the main acts were
Katie Melua,
Simple Minds,
Blondie and
UB40.
The 2005 event, at that point the biggest in the event's history, featured 6 music stages along with a comedy tent. The headline acts were
The Pogues,
Paul Weller, and
Status Quo, other acts included
The Storys.
The 2006 event was headlined by
Embrace,
a-ha and
Billy Idol, and featured
Nizlopi,
The Wonder Stuff,
The Lightning Seeds,
The Stranglers,
Gary Numan and
The Storys. GuilFest won the Best Family Festival Award for 2006
.
The 2007 event was held again at Stoke Park on the 13th, 14th, and 15 July 2007 and the
BBC Radio 2 main stage was headlined by
Supergrass,
Squeeze and
Madness.
The Magic Numbers played before Madness on the Sunday.
[2]
The second stage (sponsored by
Ents24) featured
Richard Thompson,
The Saw Doctors, and
Uriah Heep as the headliners.
[3]
The 2008 event was sponsored by the
University of Surrey and headlined by
The Levellers,
Blondie and
The Australian Pink Floyd Show.
Fightstar,
The Ghost Of A Thousand and
The Blackout played the
Rock Sound sponsored Rock Cave in 2008 as well.
2009 performers included: Motorhead,
You Me At Six,
Nouvelle Vague, Brian Wilson (Beach Boys), Joe Bonamassa, Happy Mondays, The Wailers, The Charlatans, Athlete, Toploader, Will Young, Eureka Machines, DJ Yoda, Rusko, The Love Band,
For more line-up details see GuilFest line-ups
See also
- List of music festivals in the United Kingdom