The Vintage Festival celebrates the 'Best of British' and Wilderness Festival launches.

 

Experience the Best of British at Vintage Festival 2012

Celebrating Seven Decades of British Culture & Cool at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 13-15th July 

 

MUSIC

SERGIO MENDES & HIS ORCHESTRA, ALOE BLACC, CHIC FT NILE RODGERS, NOUVELLE VAGUE PERFORMS DAWN OF INNOCENCE, BAXTER DURY, BETTY WRIGHT, ALICE RUSSELL PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

VINTAGE NIGHTCLUBS

Live performances, roller disco, a stellar DJ line-up with a one-off chance to see iconic DJs performing together, dance lessons from across the decades

 

ART & DESIGN

Vintage classic cars, campers and caravans on display

Art and design schools for all the ages and abilities

Bad Art Salon showcasing unusual art and Pop Goes the Easel, the 60s Art School

 

FASHION

Catwalk shows, The Vintage High Street with bars & brands, hair and beauty makeovers

250 vintage fashion and mid-century modern homeware sellers, and 45 fashion and upcycling workshops

 

PLUS

Brilliantly conceived food and cocktails, classic films, inspired family activities, The Chap Olympiad, the Bicycle Bazaar, Future Vintage, The Vintage Funfair, Wall of Death and beautiful camping and glamping

This summer, Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway’s Vintage Festival is back on 13th-15th July and have teamed up with the award winning Festival producer and live music business MAMA Group to transform the stunning stately home, Boughton Estate in Northamptonshire, into the capital of British culture and cool.

Having won awards for Best New Festival for its inaugural ‘Wilderness’ event last summer, MAMA Festivals, the Festival division of MAMA Group, will be bringing all of its production and promotional expertise to the Vintage Festival, obtained through years of experience of producing sell out Festivals such as Global Gathering, Lovebox and The Great Escape, as well as Wilderness.

For one glamorous weekend, toasting classic style from the past 70 years of music, fashion, film, art, design and food, Vintage is set to offer a truly unique festival experience for 2012.

 

Vintage promises an opportunity to enjoy some of the finest elements of British culture. Whether it’s learning the dances of the decades, boogying along to tunes of an incredible DJ set, having a decade specific makeover or taking advantage of the Vintage High Street and Vintage Marketplace, brimming with independent retailers and renowned brands from past to present, it truly is a creative feast for all the ages.

 

Wayne Hemingway MBE says: “Having won the title of UK’s Best New Festival, Vintage is back and bigger than ever for 2012. We’re going to create a mecca for everyone to come and celebrate the ‘Best of British’ culture and want the UK to join us.

 

“This summer is the ‘summer of culture’ for the UK with events such as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Cultural Olympiads. I’m really looking forward to Vintage this July to see everyone glammed up and hunting for those vintage finds in our enormous Vintage Marketplace and outlasting each other on the dancefloors of our six brilliant designed nightclubs.”

 

Celebrating a range of musical genres, styles and capturing some classic sounds, get ready to hear some of the finest names in musicianship at Vintage in 2012, including Sergio Mendes of Mas Que Nada fame & his orchestra, Aloe Blacc, Chic Ft Nile Rodgers, Nouvelle Vague performs Dawn Of Innocence, Baxter Dury, Betty Wright, Alice Russell and St Etienne.

 

The immersive set dresses of the Vintage nightclubs will each be dedicated to a different decade and feature real dancefloors and sound systems. We’ll have 1940s swing, 1950s rock n roll and 1960s pop, easy listening and mod culture, 1970s soul, reggae, funk and disco classics and warehouse rave, boogie and house culture from the 1980s. Truly something for everyone.

 

Torch Club 1920s-40s entertainment with Ondrej Havelka and his 15 piece Melody Makers, the world’s leading 40s exponents hailing from the Czech Republic, James Langton, Jivin Miss Daisy and dozens more of the world’s most authentic performers all curated by Snowboy.

 

Let It Rock - Brings rock culture with The Damned, The Polecats, Alien Sex Field, DJ’s Keb Darge, Gaz Mayall and Jay Strongman. Hosted by leading brands such as Gaz’s Rocking Blues, Shake, Rattle & Bowl and Lady Luck.

 

Leisure Lounge – Taking us back to the 60s is Buddy Greco, Secret Affair, The Sorrows, Mike Flowers Pop plus sessions curated by Guilty Pleasures, Club de Fromage, Count Indigo and a DJ set from Martin Green.

 

Soul Casino – 60s and 70s northern soul, funk disco and reggae sounds feature live performances from The Impressions, Junior Murvin performing “Police & Thieves”, Lonnie Liston Smith and Smoove & Turrrell and iconic Soul Casino DJ’s performing exclusively together Searling & Roberts from the Wigan Casino and Levine & Curtis from the Blackpool Mecca, as well as DJ sets from Don Letts, Craig Charles and The Soul Casino’s curator Eddie Piller and more.

 

Warehouse Party Bringing the 80s rave, house and boogie culture to Boughton Estate will be DJ’s Norman Jay, Danny Rampling, Horse Meat Disco, Greg Wilson, Terry Farley, Graeme Park, DJ Milo, Sub Club vs Back to Basics and dozens more.

 

Fashion, glamour and head-turning style is at the heart of Vintage Festival, offering delights from the 1920s through to the 1980s. ‘Best in Show’ catwalk shows will run all weekend featuring the Vintage crowd sporting best taches, hairstyles hats, frocks and suits.

 

Fashionistas can get stuck into sewing or pattern cutting workshops and have the chance to spot iconic creations from the some of the most influential fashion designers. All this before heading to the enormous Vintage Marketplace which plays host to over 250 of the finest purveyors of vintage clothing, accessories homewares and collectibles. A series of inspiring high-profile catwalk shows is soon to be announced.

 

With possibly the largest vintage hair, beauty and male grooming parlour Britain has ever seen, Vintage will ensure that all visitors feel fabulous and look glamorous 24/7. Offering women hairstyling and make-up touch ups, from Farrah Fawcett’s 1970s iconic wings to new romantic curls, 50s D.A. and the classic 60s bouffant beehive, there’s no excuse not to get into the spirit of things.

 

Art and design will remain a dominant feature this year, with numerous opportunities to get creative, whether painting, designing, learning a new skill or reviving an old one, experts will be there to help. If getting hands on is not your bag then there’s always the chance to see some vintage British design classics. With exhibitions featuring archived memorabilia from furniture and technology to timeless cars and motorbikes.

 

Vintage will also be celebrating the future as well as the past. Last year we were joined by a whole host of ‘Future Predictors’ including Marc Newson, Miranda Sawyer, Thomas Heatherwick, and Kevin McCloud. This year we hope to expand on this even more on this.

 

The vintage film scene will also take pride of place on the Boughton Estate to showcase some of the most iconic, stylish films, TV shows and documentaries from 20s silents to 80s horror.

 

Quality food is very much part of the Vintage festival. Vintage transports visitors, via their taste buds, to the tastes and eating habits of days gone by. At Vintage you can sample the flavours of the period as authentically as possible with historically linked eating opportunities, not to mention some wicked period cocktails from the bars. In the backdrop of the Torch Club, dance classes and a mind-boggling list of performers luncheon and dinner will be served, with a fine dining menu that really takes you back to the best of the 1940s! Expect more of this throughout the festival.

 

Tickets for this year’s Vintage Festival are priced at £139 for weekend adult camping, £89 for weekend young person camping, £125 for weekend non-camping and £75 for weekend young person non-camping. Children, up to and including 10 years old, go free.

For further information go to www.vintagefestival.com.

 

Notes to Editors

Notes to Editors:
● Wayne Hemingway MBE & Gerardine Hemingway MBE and some of the most experienced, knowledgeable and respected figures within the music, design, film and fashion and entertainment industries curate Vintage.

● Festival partners include cultural institutions such as the V&A, British Fashion Council, Design Council, Design Museum, Museum of London and The University for The Creative Arts.

● Vintage is taking place in the stunning grounds of Boughton Estate in Northamptonshire, for the first time. The Grade I listed park of 2345 acres boasts beautifully designed landscapes, waterscapes and woodlands and will be the perfect backdrop for the festival. The new site was also chosen for its accessible location, allowing more people to experience the festival. 80% of the population lives within two hours travel of the site.

Performers information:
● Sergio Mendes & his orchestra
Bossa Nova meets jazz and funk with one of the all-time musical legends and a hero of The Black Eyed Peas who re-recorded his classic ‘Mas Que Nada’. Is “Mas Que Nada the most loved song ever?” The perfect samba-inflected closer for day one of Vintage.

● Chic featuring Nile Rogers
Legendary disco and RnB outfit who brought us ‘Le Freak’ and ‘Good Times’ fronted by the inimitable Nile Rodgers, who is one of the great producers of all time. Expect outings for Bowie's ‘Let's Dance’ and Madonna's ‘Like A Virgin’, as well ‘We Are Family’ and ‘Upside Down’ all tunes that he had a hand in over the years.

● Nouvelle Vague
A stylish end to the weekend with a lounge and bossa nova groove curated by fashion designer Jean Claude De Castelbajac. This show is everything that the Vintage Festival is about, timeless and cool blending music, fashion and fantastic visuals.

● Aloe Blacc
Blacc is a born frontman, in a modern music industry increasingly lacking soul, Blacc is following in the footsteps of James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers and all the greats.

● Baxter Dury
Dry, post-modern, electro-tinged pop from a witty songwriter and son of a legend, his latest album, the gorgeous ‘Happy Soup’ cross fertilizes sounds and witty raconteur storylines. Genius!

● Buster Shuffle
Piano bashing cockney ska with a hint of rock ’n’ roll, their new album features guest appearances by The Specials and Blockheads and their songs have all the wit and charm of classic Madness.

● Betty Wright
The Soul legend whose recent album with The Roots was critically acclaimed and gathered many a five star review. She’ll be dipping back to her sassy roots as the ‘Clean Up Woman’ through dancefloor faves like ‘Shoorah Shoorah’ and ‘Tonight’s the Night’.

● Alice Russell
Inspired by Gospel and soul from Aretha to Stevie Wonder and blessed with a powerful and simply beautiful vocal range, Alice Russell is the UK’s premier soul voice. Her new album featuring Quantic gained great reviews. She’ll be performing at Vintage with her own seven piece band.

• St Etienne
Perennial UK hit makers whose eighth album ‘Words And Music By’, released in May, revel in their very Englishness and will provide an exemplary performance littered with their string of chart hits and some exotic melodies.

● The Swing Out Sister Big Band
The 80s pop legends with huge big band sounds. The ‘Breakout’, ‘Am I the Same Girl?’ and ‘Surrender’ hit makers with a heavily rhythmic and truly sophisticated swing to their arrangements.

About MAMA:
MAMA Group was founded in 2002, and is now owned by HMV Group Plc following the completion, in 2010, of a successful takeover bid. MAMA Group Limited is the parent company of a number of UK-based music and media businesses.

The Group is comprised of three divisions:
Live Music, which includes the following London venues: HMV Hammersmith Apollo, HMV Forum, Jazz Cafe, Relentless Garage, The Borderline, Heaven, G-A-Y and Barfly Camden; the HMV Picture House in Edinburgh, the HMV Institute in Birmingham. and the HMV Ritz in Manchester. It also operates live music events including the Lovebox festival, Wilderness festival, Vintage festival, The Great Escape festival, and GlobalGathering. Artist Services, which includes artist and producer management, and investments in music publishing and recording businesses; and consumer, which includes The Fly, the UK's highest circulating music magazine; a sponsorship business; Music and Media Solutions which is responsible for all brand partnership activity and is uniquely positioned to integrate and deliver a variety of brand objectives across MAMA Group's stable of assets; and PAPA Projects, a production strategy, event design, project management business dedicated to delivering engaging, inspiring creative-led experiences.

What our fans think of Vintage:

“Loved the atmosphere, the amazing attention to detail, the music, the fashion....everything was so inspiring. My new favourite festival.” - Simon Price / The Independent

“Simply the best festival I have played in a very very long time. A truly inspired festival weekend.” - Norman Jay MBE

“A festival appealing to everyone from the casual vintage admirer to the hardcore devotee.” – Dazed & Confused

“A gaudy but unselfconscious celebration of the 20th century popular culture.” – The Guardian

“An offbeat, cultural haven…If you’re looking for something a little different to the festival norm, take a look at the most stylish from this truly unique event.” – Elle

“There was a lot going on: people watching, dance lessons, hair and beauty sessions, vintage inspired fairground rides, photoshoots, upcycling master classes, Film Noir screenings and downright good old fashioned dancing. Trust me; there was never a dull moment.” ASOS

March 6, 2012 9:12am ET by Inkling Communications   Comments (0)

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