Brownstock Festival 2011

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A truly independent boutique festival run by the Brown family on their farm in Essex. The quirky festival started as an over grown family party. Now it’s bigger, showcasing a line up that would make comparative festival giants peep over the hedge. When sitting round the farmhouse dinner table, the family are just as likely to be discussing the next superstar booking as the next cow feed.

This year's line up goes like this. Latest addition, Example (who is fitting us into his sold out UK tour, after being number 1 earlier in the year) Athlete, Pendulum DJ set, Ms Dynamite, Zinc, ShyFX, The Milk, Killa Kela and Jaymo and Andy George are all heading to the field on the Essex marshes. Meanwhile Brownstock HQ has listened to 439(!) other unsigned acts that have sent their pearls of genius – 40 of which will get their moment of glory.

3 Day Camping: Earlybird £58 (offer ends midnight Wednesday 24th August), Day tickets £40, Under 10's GO FREE!

Tickets on sale at: www.brownstock.co.uk

There may be some big names, but the key thing is that it still hasn’t lost its rustic charm or its chirpy-cheap ticket price (£58 for earlybird full weekend camping).

Yes, you can watch Pendulum take to the decks to headline in the 2000 capacity dance dome, but after you can eat a home-grown Aberdeen Angus beef burger in the Farmer’s Food Village (lovingly raised by daddy brown). The Piano Bar is also new this year. Listen to a tinkle on the ivories (or tinkle yourself if you are able) – all in the surrounding decorative glory of Jess and Anna Brown's many boot sale trips; “Excuse me, how much for the gold manikin's legs?”. You get the idea......

Brownstock also has an enviably late license. The dance dome goes until 3am – at which point the 24 hour silent disco kicks in. It genuinely doesn’t stop until the last person heads towards the campsite (because that's a proper party. None of this finish at 11pm and head to your tent malarkey. That’s not brown family style). And daytime entertainments include comedy shows, free running displays, Storytelling on the panto stage and fancy dress competitions – judged, of course, by mummy brown and glamour nanna.

All this barking mad British countryside-ness just 40mins on the train from London Liverpool Street - and the local taxi firm are on hand to do shuttle runs for the 2 mile trip from the station to the farm.

More Info at: www.brownstock.co.uk
Watch Last Year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjGMDFNctOw
Pics of Last Year: www.flickr.com/photos/63608949@N03

Dates: 2nd, 3rd & 4th September 2011. Gates open for campers at 4pm on Friday 2nd. Saturday & Sunday opens at 11am for non campers.

Address: Morris Farm, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 6SG

EssexTouristGuide.com 24th August 2011

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