News has reached me about a great sounding new music festival – great sounding because it’s a celebration of 1980’s music! Â The 80s Rewind Festival is to be held on August 21st, 22nd and 23rd, and if you love eighties music it’s most definitely the place to be that weekend.
The Rewind Festival is being held in Henley on Thames, south Oxfordshire, right on the banks of the River Thames and is set to be the biggest line up of eighties acts since Live Aid! Â There are over 20 acts currently confirmed to appear over the course of the weekend, which are:-
Saturday 22nd August | Sunday 23rd August |
Kim Wilde | Gloria Gaynor |
Rick Astley | Sister Sledge |
Bananarama | ABC |
Belinda Carlisle | Go West |
Heaven 17 | Paul Young |
Kid Creole | Howard Jones |
Doctor and the Medics | T'Pau |
Nick Heyward | Midge Ure |
Billy Ocean | Nik Kershaw |
The Real Thing | The Christians |
China Crisis | The Blockheads with Phill Jupitus |
Toyah | Chas 'n' Dave |
As you can see there are some very big names amongst the list, and indeed between them they’ve notched up 171 top twenty hits and an incredible 47 years combined in the charts! Â Pretty astounding I’m sure you’ll agree.
Whilst obviously the main focus of the weekend is a celebration of music from the 1980’s, there is also plenty more lined up to keep you amused. Â There is a fun fair planned with dodgems, big wheel and all manner of other rides, and each evening there will be a fireworks display. Â To keep you entertained after that you can go for a boogie at the Big Top Nightclub, playing a range of 80s records, or laught at comedians from the Comedy Store.
There will be a campsite located adjacent to the festival ground, where you can either pitch your own tent or take advantage of the “Glamping” option, short for glamorous camping, where tents, including Tipis and Yurts (whatever they are) will be erected for you, meaning you don’t have to work out how to insert rod A into slot B. Â There’s even a family field available if you want to bring the kids along and show them what pop music should really sound like!
For more information and to book tickets visit the official 80s Rewind Festival web site.
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Sounds great, but trying to work out how to get a free trip and entry from Aus……Only 7 months to plan………
Well, I can’t help with the flights, but watch this space as I may be able to help with entry to the festival itself… Ooh! The suspense!
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A great idea which was copied from a festival thats now in its third year in Scotland!! Retrofest has had all the acts that Rewind has booked. In fact, having looked at the Rewind website its a carbon copy of the scottish event! The Retrofest website is much better than the Rewind one and having attended retrofest in both 2007 and 2008 these guys are going to have to go some to get even close to how good retrofest is!
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Why not in the U.S.A
So unfair!!!!