Two Thousand Trees Festival
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]
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 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.
Past acts
2007
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
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
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
- 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
See also
- List of indie rock festivals
References
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- http://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk (Feb 2008)
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Two Thousand Trees Festival. |
- Official 2000trees Festival website: http://www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk
- BBC article on small festivals, featuring 2000trees Festival: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12088992