Author: Solace Team
Free Band Nite: Solace Review
Monday, 28th April, 2008 at 3:48 pm, Isle of Wight
Thanks to Ced from the Solace team for sending in this review of the great action happening in Church Litten last Friday night. We’re really pleased to hear it went so well. We’d recommend you check out their website, lots of great info and a brilliant video well worth watching - it’ll warm the cockles of your hearts. Ed
Thanks to everyone who turned up to the free BAND NITE gig in Church Litten on Friday evening.
The rain held off and it turned out to be a beautiful evening with between 300-400 people dancing the night away.
We served up hundreds of hot chocolates and cakes - in fact we had so many we ended up piling them high on trays and taking them out into the crowds.
Special thanks to all the bands (Siniez, Emily Jane Band, Proximity Effect, Zero and others) - you sounded amazing and bought Newport to life! And to all the fantastic people that baked the hundreds of cakes that were handed out.
We hope to be back again in the same place in a couple of months but in the meantime we will be doing the same at the IOW festival in June. Big up the LOVE and God bless ya all.
Solace xxx
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April 28th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
The Solace tent is such a gem at IW Festival and Bestival. Seeing people’s reactions when they realise that it’s FREE tea (and what a range of teas) and cake… Free? At a festival? I know! Lovely people and their dedicated band of island cake-baking volunteers.
I hope they get a better spot at IW Festival this year; amidst the cacohony of the funfair made no sense. Very harsh. Their site at Bestival has been brilliant though, up on the hill with a view of the whole valley. I love that.
Great to see they’re branching out.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Sorry, that should have said cacophony.