Welcome to the homepage of The Silchester Music Festival.

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Check out Pete Hughes' excellent pictures of past festivals: 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Bands We Like...

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One to watch...

Kiss The Sky haven't done any full-scale gigs yet but are already producing some beautifully fresh and exciting new sounds. The Tadley three-piece use a combination of sequencers and live instruments to bring their musical vision to a live stage and are fronted by the lovely Mel, who's breathtaking vocals are causing a stir wherever they are heard. Absolutely a band to keep an eye out for.

We promised you big: we delivered!
We promised you better: the bands were simply stunning this year!
We promised you sunshine: the weather was glorious!

Sonia and Fish would like to say an enormous thank-you to everyone who helped, performed and attended this year's festival. We can't name all of the ninety-odd volunteers who gave their time to rig, crew, cater and marshall the festival - or the dedicated few who remained to de-rig afterwards and clean up the site - but we must single out Claire, who's incredibly hard and persistant work on the legal and admin side made everything else possible, and ORA Productions who provided the marquee, sound and lighting systems for free.

The ORA team have been spending ridiculous amounts of time preparing for this event (over ¼km of extra cabling was made up just for the festival) and some of the guys pulled shifts of up to 50 hours to make it all happen. ORA can make any wedding, party or corporate event special: please take a minute to look at their web-site.

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We've got the site clear and most of the equipment has found its way back home. The marquee will get unloaded and put away this morning and then we are done for another year.

We still have quite a lot of lost property, although we were able to return most of it on the night. If you are missing anything, we have cameras, mobiles, bags, jackets and more. Drop us a line to lost@silchestermusicfestival.org and we'll see what we can do.

Huge thanks to Terry Arrowsmith and Hampshire Constabulary for their friendly and sensitive policing of the event.

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Everything is now running flat out for SMF09. We've acquired a whole truck-load of new lighting which is currently being tested and refurbished. Our 5th Birthday is really going to look special. We are hoping to black out the stage area to get the most out of the stunning lighting rig and we've got some great-looking stage-dressing to make the drum-riser look special.

The wonderful Lawrence Wright (Ministry Of Sound) has already started programming the rig, so he's got a three-week head-start on last year: expect something special!.

For the PA, we have an astonishing 21,000 watts of amplifiers (honest) which will cope effortlessly with anything we care to throw at it. Not that we want to be loud: we just love big numbers!

If you fancy getting involved, we are always interested in help with rigging, crewing, marshalling or just generally gophering: Let us know.

Can you help publicise the festival? We can supply free full-colour posters for your office, school, club or lamp-post. Let us know.