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 The 2007 festival was unfortunately attacked by the weather, we thank everybody that turned up to play and a special thanks to all who attended.

Stage 2 the Merseyrock stage, was very popular and a big thank you to Mike for all his skills in booking and sorting the bands on stage, cheers mate.

Now for some news on this year.

If it were possible, nothing would please us more than to revert to the days when the Festival was a free event.  However, the progress and success that has been achieved brings more and more responsibilities, i.e. health and safety issues, expenditure ect. This year we have found ourselves in a situation where we have to keep the fence lines on site until the end of the event (Sunday evening). Thus we have the additional financial burden of hiring staff and equipment for an extra day. We initially set the rate at £2.00 entry for Sunday, whilst we tried to secure a headline act to close the event and through some studious efforts by Andy we were able to book The Salford Jets as our Sunday headline act. We try each year to keep the entry fees to a minimum, but when you look at the total entry fee for the three days it amounts to £14.50. In comparison our headline act from last year Dr. Feelgood, played a well known local venue and it was £14.00 per person for one evenings entertainment.  In addition, all the smokers had to smoke outside the venue.  Due to the constraints of time we have not been able to work out a package deal with discounts for a weekend ticket and possibly a family ticket for this year, but it will be on the cards for future years. Please remember children under 14 are allowed in free with a responsible paying adult. Once again we welcome any realistic comments, ideas ect. to improve your Festival. We as a committee are only the guardians of the Festival.  To give you some idea of how the Festival runs, this year it is costing in the region of £50,000.  When you think about it, £14.50 buys you three days of great entertainment  comprising of  50 +  superb acts and the three fantastic headline acts; pretty good value for money don't you think. Please come and enjoy yourself. 

As of previous years we will be selling advertising space in our souvenir programmes so if you want to advertise then again please mail us or phone. Last years food vendors were superb with lots of styles of food available. There was also an excellent beer tent selling various beers spirits and soft drinks.

 Entries: we are now looking for acts for 2008, as stated elsewhere on the site we have booked a headline act for Friday and also one for Saturday, We will be reducing the number of bands playing each day so we can allow more time for playing, and changing sound equipment between bands. Once again thanks to all who applied to appear in 2007, without you this festival would not be happening.

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Also available this year we had some pitches for stall holders who provided their own stalls. This will be carried onto 2008

For details regarding any of the above please contact Sarah on 07985645225 or by mail via N.M.F. or even by snail mail, details can be found on the contacts page.

Please come and enjoy yourself and remember to have a safe journey home, thanks to

"The Committee and everybody else that made this happen".

****See You Next Year****