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Boomtown Sold Out In Record Time

May 27, 2017June 10, 2018 Adrian Holden Boomtown, Festival

Boomtown, the 60,000 capacity Hampshire based festival, taking place from 10th – 13th August, marries immersive theatre with outstanding music and has officially sold out in record time!

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Boomtown Announce Wild West District Line Up

February 23, 2017June 10, 2018 Adrian Holden Boomtown, Festival

Saddle up the horses and polish those spurs, Boomtown’s most musically varied district has announced it’s line-up for Chapter 9. The Wild West, home of bluegrass, folk, and world to bassline, is for the leg shaking do- si-do-ers, and midnight party people alike!

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Boomtown reveal over 160 acts for first wave of 2017 line up

February 10, 2017June 10, 2018 Adrian Holden Boomtown, Festival

The 60,000 capacity Hampshire festival is the only fully immersive music and theatrical festival in the UK and have followed up their storyline trailer for 2017 by announcing over 160 artists spanning a huge variety of genres, including reggae, folk, jazz, world, dub, dancehall, ska, house, techno, garage and a whole lot more…

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Boomtown: Chapter 9 Tickets on sale tonight at 7pm

November 1, 2016June 10, 2018 Adrian Holden Boomtown, Festival

Tickets to the UK’s most escapist and immersive festival, Boomtown Chapter 9: Behind the Mask, go on sale at 7pm tonight (Tuesday 1st November) via the website www.boomtownfair.co.uk

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BoomTown Fair Announce Wild West District Line-up!

February 17, 2016June 10, 2018 Adrian Holden 3 Daft Monkeys, Acoustic, Afriquoi, Afro Celt Sound System, Afro Cluster, Banjo, Beans On Toast, Blues, Boomtown, Boomtown Fair, Buffalo Skinners, Captain Cactus & The Screaming Harlots, Cat Ratchers, Crinkle Cuts, Curst Sons, Dana Immanuel & The Stolen Band, Dead Plants, Dhol Foundation, Dusk at Dawns, Easy Stride Band, Eat The Evidence, Echo Town, Euphony, Fast Decline, Feel Good Culture, Feelgood Experiment, Ferocious Dog, Festival, Fitty Gomash, Folk, Folk Rock, Funke & The Two Tone Baby, Funke and the Two Tone Baby, Gaz Brookfield & Ben Wain, Gin Bowlers, Guitar, Henge, Iguanas, Imelda May, JC's Hopeless Sinners, Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate, Johnny Cage & Imelda May imageVoodoo Groove, Josephine & The Artizans, Junior Bill & The Scallies, Key Lime Pi, King Solomon Band, Larry & His Flask, Lau, Lily Mi, Live, Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam 6, MoCara, Mokoomba, Music, Nahko & Medicine For The People, Ojos de Brujo, Pachango, Primo Nelson, Pronghorn, Raghu Dixit, Roots, Sam Evans Band, Sam Green and The Midnight Heist, Screamin Miss Jackson & The Slap ya Mamma Big Band, Selby And The Dharma Blitz, Seth Lakeman, Seven Little Sisters, Severed Limb, Shooglenifty, Showhawk Duo, Skimmity Hitchers, Skinny Lister, Steve N Seagulls, The Back Wood Redeemers, The Barefoot Bandit, The Boot Hill All Stars, The Brother Moves On, The Future Dub Project, The Hot Sprockets, The Inbredz, The Maitree Express, The Piratones, The Scribes, The Turbans, The White City Shakers, Traditional, Trailer Trash Orchestra, Vegetable Collective, Wessex Pistols, Zegema Beach

BoomTown’s Chapter 8 district announcements reach the Wild West, a raucous ex-prospecting settlement populated by cowboys, showgirls, bounty hunters and bandits, ruled by the no-nonsense Sheriff. Away from the district’s dusty trails and ramshackle saloons, three main stages dosey-doe day and night to a rootin’ tootin’ line-up of Folk, Bluegrass, Ska and World music.

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Live Review: Boomtown Fair 2015

September 16, 2015June 10, 2018 Adrian Holden Acoustic, Blues, Boomtown, Boomtown Fair, Caravan Palace, Celtic, Festival, Flogging Molly, Folk, Folk Rock, Funke and the Two Tone Baby, Guitar, John Butler Trio, Kate Tempest, Live, Music, Review, Transglobal Underground

Boomtown returned this year for Chapter 7 of the story, a city built from scratch in the coutryside just outside Winchester creating a place like no other. A place filled with madness and mayhem, with ravers, punks, cowboys, hippies, cyborgs and pirates all mixing with each other to have one huge party. From the Wild West to Trenchtown to walking through Mayfair or losing yourself in the forest – Boomtown here we come…

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