Last Festival Social Before October!
- Event to feature Gorgeous George and Keston Cobblers Club
The Association of Independent Festival’s monthly ‘Festival Social’ night of networking and live music will feature Gorgeous George and Keston Cobblers Club this coming Tuesday 1st May. Taking a break during the UK festival season, it will be the last event before recommencing in October.Gorgeous George, best described as a quirky gypsy-jazz, will be bringing their fusion of Eastern European folk and Cockney storytelling to the Social ahead of gigs at Camden Crawl, The Great Escape and Secret Garden Party. Keston Cobblers Club have gained a reputation for fun, jaunty folk, and will be heading out to Larmer Tree Festival in July.The aim of each event is to start conversations between like-minded independent entrepreneurs in the festival sector, not exclusively AIF promoters or members. So far, the evenings have proved a great success as an informal hangout for promoters, agents and festival creatives.Acts featured in the previous two events have made it into Bestival and Kendal Calling line-ups, amongst others.The Festival Social will be free for the first hour and £2 after 8pm. Readers should email social@aiforg.com to join the guestlist for guaranteed entry.Event DetailsTitle: Festival SocialDate: May 1st 2012Time: 7pm – 12amVenue: The Social, 5 Little Portland Street London W1W 7JDCost: 7pm – 8pm free/ 8pm – 12pm £2 entryAbout AIFThe Association of Independent Festivals is a not for profit body set up in 2008 to represent independent music festivals in the UK and Ireland.Conceived by Bestival promoter Rob da Bank and Graphite’s Ben Turner, the association’s founder members included Bestival, Cornbury Festival, Creamfields, Evolution Festival, Field Day/Underage, Secret Garden Party, Summer Sundae Weekender and WOMAD.With 31 members ranging from Bromley’s 2000 capacity LeeFest to the 55,000 capacity Bestival in the Isle of Wight, AIF enables the promoters of some of the UK & Ireland’s most innovative and successful festivals to speak with one voice when addressing the wider music business and government.AIF aims to establish best practice for festivals in a variety of areas such as security, the environment and beyond, providing a knowledge base for festival promoters, as well as creating collective purchasing and marketing opportunities for its members.AIF operates as an autonomous division of the Association of Independent Music.