Be there to witness the best local bands battling it out for a spot on the main stage at Sellindge Music Festival 2009. On 22nd January, SMF presented Heat 1 of the Main Stage Talent Tournament to a packed venue in Folkestone, and saw The Little Philistines and Burgundy making it through to the final.
This Thursday, five more bands will play their hearts out in hopes of making it through. The bands include Watch This Space, Waterhorse, Us & Them, Monday Street, and Elephants. Two of these bands will be chosen to compete against the Heat 1 winners on 14th March at the much-anticipated Quarterhouse Entertainment & Arts Venue in Folkestone's Creative Quarter. In the end, only one will make it all the way, giving them the thrill of performing in front of thousands of music lovers, on the same stage as international headliners, who are being announced this weekend.
Heat 2 is being held this Thursday the 12th at 7:30pm at The Frenchman, Folkestone (CT20 2SX) and is free to attend. For more information about the Main Stage Talent Tournament or Sellindge Music Festival, visit them on the web at www.sellindgemusicfestival.com. To be the first to know about the official lineup, visit www.sellindgefacebook.com.
This is part of my website The 'Gerald that I built in a fury of excitement when I first moved here in approximately 2004. I'd been a frequent visitor for a few years previous to that but I am technically one of those Down From Londons you get now. The site was a lot more dynamic with a gig calendar and voting for favourite venues and stuff, and I know it was a useful reference for those who were moving to the area. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though only a couple of miles) it doesn't get as much attention as it used to. Ironic really as The town is becoming the exciting place we knew it was just about to. My name is not Gerald BTW, this comes from a pretend newspaper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, and how there is a local paper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are great aren't they? Do contact me if you have anything to contribute, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on the twitter.