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Poeting at Glastonwick 2024
May 31 @ 18:00 - 23:59
Janine will be pumping out the poetry on the first night of the 2024 Glastonwick Festival, returning two years after her last tour de force at the Sussex shindig.
Held at Coombes Farm, Coombes Road, Lancing BN15 0RS, Glastonwick is the music and poetry festival with good beer (and cider), and the beer (and cider) festival with good music and poetry.
Coombes Farm is just off the A27 between Brighton and Worthing. The festival provides a free shuttle bus from Brighton and local villages. The timetable is available on the event website.
There is a campsite. Children are welcome. No dogs, as the venue is a working farm.
A word from organiser Attlia the Stockbroker …
Glastonwick: New Barn
As with last year, the festival will be held in a different barn to the original (the one at the back, beyond the cider/food one) following farmers Jenny and Jerry’s decision to turn the main barn into a storage area. There are more details about this on the Glastonwick Facebook group page. Other than some dust issues, it proved to be a fine substitute, and with better airflow it kept the beer in good nick.
Glastonwick: The Artists
Last June we had 11 first time performers and, I am happy to say, more women on stage than ever before, approaching parity in terms of individual acts: this is something I had been working towards for years.
Glastonwick: The Beers
There will be over 50 cask-conditioned beers from small independent breweries, including exclusive festival specials. There will be over 20 local cider and perry, good food with vegetarian options and, of course, the legendary convivial Glastonwick atmosphere.
More details and tickets here.
Other artists appearing at Glastonwick over the weekend include:
- East Town Pirates – Ipswich’s finest buccaneers
- TV Smith – Adverts, then everything
- Dakka Skanks -Incredible ska
- The Antipoet
- Fractured – Angular and melodic
- Merry Hell -Majestic melodious multitude from Wigan
- Newtown Neurotics
- Menstrual Cramps
- Rory Mcleod – Rhythmic storyteller (& more)
- Muddy Summers and the DFWs – Melody and fire
- Garden Gang – Bubblegum glam punk watering can from Munich
- Anti Social Worker -Grime Poet
- Jess Silk – Radical songwriter genius
- Shotgun Marmalade – Black Country Clash
- Steve Tasane – Angry compassionate wordsmith
- Nasty Fishmonger – Dance frenzy folk punk
- John Otway – Everpresent lunatic
- Brian Bilston & Henry Normal – Some Poetry, perhaps?
- Daffadildoes – Punk riot
- Shoreham Chamber Choir – Early music
Alex Hall tells the history of Glastonwick …
Back in 1996, I co-founded Glastonwick with Attila and the late Roy Chuter, who ran Attila’s postal mailing list at that ancient time before email was common, and way before Facebook and Twitter were conceived.
The concept was Attila’s idea, pairing the very best musical and poetic talent with the very best real ales in the same venue, which then was Southwick Community Centre and the adjoining Barn Theatre (hence the ‘wick’ suffix in the name). He needed an experienced beer coordinator and cellar person to make it work, I jumped at the chance as I was keeping the cellar at Brighton’s Evening Star – which had the fledgling Dark Star Brewery down there at the time. Roy was the original staffing coordinator.
It was conceived as a revolutionary idea in the rather staid 1990s, back then many beer festivals had a token covers band stuffed into a corner to be ignored – and pretty much all music festivals that Attila played at had global corporate sponsors where the only stuff to drink was bland, gaseous, overpriced, mass-produced keg lager and cider swill that none of us would even remotely consider torturing our palates with. We jointly wanted to provide an antidote to all that. And we did …
