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Local comedy club teams up with G-Spot Stage

Having been a side-splitting, rip-roaring, rib-tickling success over the last two years, we are very pleased to announce the return of the G-Spot comedy stage at this year’s Glasgowbury Music Festival.

Upping the comedic ante that little bit more, we are teaming up with the guys behind Daly’s Comedy Club in Omagh, which finished a very respectable runner up in the Dave’s One Night Stand UK Comedy Club of the Year 2013 Award. Seeing as they’ve worked with some of the biggest acts in Irish and UK comedy over the past few years we couldn’t be more delighted to welcome them onboard this year’s festival.

A regular panelist on BBC comedy gameshow Monumental and SKETCHY, we are equally pleased to announce that acclaimed comedian and actor Micky Bartlett will headline the G-Spot stage at this year’s festival. Having won BBC NI’s stand up talent show Find Me The Funny, the skilled comic actor is also known for appearing on the I Am Fighter videos on Youtube, created by Colin Geddis.

A hit at the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe festival, Belfast-born clown and comedian Paul Currie will also bring his uniquely nonsensical approach to this year’s festival. Having been called “the Monty Python version of stand up comedy” by Fringe Guru, he is an unmissable proposition – a totally one-one artist set to appear on BBC3’s comedy variety show Live At The Electric.

Several other well-known faces and fastest rising stars from the local comedy scene will play this year’s G-Spot tent, including fast-rising Dublin comedian Marcus Olaoire,
stand-up/West Belfast taxi driver Paddy McDonnell and master of the dead-pan one-liner, Sean Hegarty.

The full line-up for the G-Spot comedy stage is as follows:

Micky Barlett
Paul Currie
Marcus Olaoire
Paddy McDonnell
Sean Hegarty
Terry Keyes
Phil McEwan
Terry McHugh
Digger Browne

Tickets for Glasgowbury 2013 are available to buy here.

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Glasgowbury team up with J&K Coaches

With one eye firmly on the local environment, we are delighted to announce that we are teaming up with J&K Coaches to offer a bespoke bus route service to this year’s Glasgowbury festival. With routes organised around where passengers live, a first-rate, reliable and competitively priced service taking you ‘from your doorstep’ straight to this year’s festival is guaranteed.

Once again hoping to encourage the green aspect, we also call on regular drivers to consider the bus service as an alternative, friendly and totally hassle-free means to get to and from this year’s “small but massive” event, taking place at Eagle’s Rock Valley, Draperstown.

Interested? Book your place by contacting J&K via (028) 867 37776/07783176060 or info@jandkcoaches.com

Tickets for this year’s Glasgowbury 2013 are still available here.

If you do decide to take a car, we have secure 24-hr parking at the site at a cost of £5 per car.

Bringing a campervan? Just contact us at: info@glasgowbury.com to arrange a pitch.

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Campervan spaces sold out!

Due to phenomenal demand, all campervan spaces for Glasgowbury 2012 have now sold out.

You can still purchases both camping and day tickets to the festival and they are available to buy online from HMV TICKETS.

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A Plastic Rose lead April G Session

Saturday 14th April • A Plastic Rose / Kasper Rosa / Seven Summits • Cellar Bar, Draperstown

Fresh off the back of Snow Patrol support in Belfast and London, we are delighted to welcome A Plastic Rose to headline Glasgowbury’s April G Session.

The four piece cross-border alliance look set for big things in 2012 with their debut album, ‘Camera.Shutter.Life’, due to be released post-summer.

We’ve had a taste of what to expect from that LP with recent single Build From The Ground Up, an epic slice of what A Plastic Rose do best.

A six track EP featuring the new single will be on Monday 19th March.

Joining the APR team on the night will be a duo of Belfast based bands in the form of Kasper Rosa and Seven Summits.

Kasper Rosa will be hitting the G Session gig fresh off the back of an Irish tour where they’ll be showcasing their incendiary progressive rock, taking Draperstown firmly in their hold with their first G Session.

Seven Summits, the band that brought you that insanely catchy Burning Heart song, yes that one, complete the G Session bill. Currently locked away recording their follow-up album, they’ll be let loose on Draperstown to highlight said new work.

The April G Session is set for Saturday 14th April and as usual will take place at the Cellar Bar in Draperstown.

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Festival tickets on sale now

Tickets for Glasgowbury 2010, the tenth anniversary of the Small But Massive! festival, are on sale now.

This year tickets will be sold via HMV, HMVTickets.com and from a number of local independent retailers.

You can buy tickets online now: http://www.hmvtickets.com/events/899

Hard copy tickets can also be purchased from HMV stores throughout Ireland as well as from some of your usual local independent retailers.

As always, there are two ticket options available: Festival Only (£30 / €35 + booking fee) and Festival And Camping (£40 / €47 + booking fee).

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Hard copy tickets are available from the following locations:

HMV (NI):  Ballymena / Bangor/ Belfast (Donegall Arcade) / Coleraine / Craigavon / Derry / Lisburn / Newry

HMV (Ireland):  Cork / Drogheda / Dublin (Grafton Street) / Galway / Limerick

Independent Retailers:  Draperstown (Glasgowbury Office, Cellar Bar, Credit Union) / Magherafelt (Top 40) / Omagh (Music Matters) / Enniskillen (Easy Duplication) / Limavady (Ulster Cancer Foundation) / Strabane (Dicey Reillys).

Win festival tickets in AIF survey

We have another pair of tickets up for grabs for this year’s festival by completing this short survey as compiled by our good friends at the Association of Independent Festivals.

AIF Survey 2010

A winner will be chosen at random for a pair of tickets to the tenth anniversary of the Glasgowbury Music Festival.

Free music video offer for NI acts

Our good friends over at the Nerve Centre in Derry have got an incredible offer for bands and artists looking their own music video.

The Centre’s video course is offering interested acts the opportunity to have their own music video created – for free.

To register and be in with a chance of winning the opportunity to have a film crew record your video, call the Nerve Centre with your details or speak to Bobby or Mervyn in the video department.

The only stipulation is that the successful applicants will have their own recording completed prior to filming.

Filming is scheduled for May with the finished product guaranteed for June.

Contact the Nerve Centre for more information and to register: 028 71 260 562 / info@nerve-centre.org.uk

Dozens of acts for all-day Haiti fundraiser

The full line-up for the Haiti fundraising spectacular at the Cellar Bar for Saturday 27th February has been confirmed.

Organised due to the recent disaster in Haiti, the event hopes to raise some much needed funds for the victims of the life-changing earthquake.

Bands already confirmed for the all day showcase include the likes of LaFaro, Swanee River and Furlo while over on the acoustic stage acts such as Silhouette and Joe Echo will close the day.

The evening won’t consist solely of  bands however and a series of DJ sets from Groovemonk and Electric Mainline presenter Stephen McCauley will bring the event to a close.

Doors open at 2pm and admission is £7, so get there early.

For more information, see the Facebook Page.

And dont forget if you’re in Derry a few days before, Get yourself along to the Derry 4 Haiti event on Thursday 25th February.

The event is spread across four venues in the city: Bound for Boston, Sandinos, Masons and the Nerve Centre.

Confirmed acts already include Skruff, Furlo and Triggerman with more to be annouced.

Doors open at 8pm and admission, set at £8, allows you entry to each of the four venues.

Submission thanks from Glagowbury HQ

In the days and hours remaining until Glasgowbury 2009, festival organiser Paddy Glasgow opens his heart to thank everyone for their submissions and interest.

“The amount of submissions we got through the door this year was staggering,” he said.

“And there was a massive sense of pride at seeing so many bands and artists wanting to come and play our small but massive festival – even if our postman had to go into semi-retirement afterwards.

“And finalising the line-up wasn’t an easy thing to do because there really is so much talent coming from every corner of the country.

“But the line-up that we have decided on is, we think, a fair representation of the varied acts and styles currently working hard for the good of the Irish music scene.

“Like every other year, Glasgowbury 2009 is about the acts, unsigned or not, and giving them a platform to express themselves and get their music heard by a much wider audience. And with dozens of acts spread across four stages, I think there really is something for everyone.

“Such was the response from the music community north and south and throughout the UK that we could easily have put on a massive two day celebration – and maybe some day we will reach that milestone.

“I just want to take this opportunity to thank every person, every band and every artist who took the time to contact us, to send us press packs and who took an interest in what we’re trying to do for the good of the music scene.

“We look forward to seeing you all at Eagle’s Rock and whether you’re playing or just enjoying the music, we thank you all for your support in keeping new music alive.

“Small but massive.”