Glastonbudget

Glastonbudget
Genre	Tribute New acts
Location(s)	Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire, England
Years active	2005 - present
Website
www.glastonbudget.org

Glastonbudget is an annual three-day music festival that takes place at Turnpost Farm in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, England. The festival has been held since 2005.

Initially started as a festival for tribute bands it has expanded in recent years to include a showcase for new acts as well as the main tribute stage. Interest in the festival and those attending has increased year on year with the 2014 festival seeing almost 12,000 festival goers in attendance.

Since 2006, the festival has invited special guests to perform. These have included Chas and Dave (2006), The Neville Staples Specials (2007), Bad Manners (2008) and Chesney Hawkes (2009), Ex Simple Minds (2010), Doctor and The Medics (2011) and Showaddywaddy, The Sweet, and the return of Chesney Hawkes in 2012. In 2013, an 80's revival took place with ABC, Howard Jones, The Christians, and Heaven 17 playing the main stage.

The event is organised annually by a small team including Nick Tanner and Murray Stewart. The event is run and managed from Turnpost Farm.

Founder, Nick Tanner was managing pubs that regularly booked tribute acts as entertainment. He was inspired to create a larger event dedicated to those bands. After refining the idea with his friend Murray Stewart, they found a location to hold the first festival at, Turnpost Farm in Leicestershire.

The first Glastonbudget festival was held in May 2005 and occurred for only two days over a weekend. The acts included the Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute band otherwise known as the Ded Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis tribute band Oasish and Coldplay tribute band Coolplay. The attendance for the event was a mere 680 people.

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