Apollo Resorts and Leisure are delighted to announce that the Doves gig planned for the Scarborough Open Air Theatre on Sat 7th August has been expanded into an all day summer music event. Doves Summer Music Festival has a fantastic line up of special guests including Newton Faulkner and The Futureheads announced to join Doves at the new 6500 seater Scarborough North Bay venue. With doors now opening at 1.00pm, the gig will take on a music festival atmosphere for revellers to enjoy.
Scottish rock band Kassidy will get proceedings underway, with Tiffany Page next on stage with her brand of radio friendly route 66 rock n roll. Following Tiffany is North East export Detroit Social Club fresh from their prime spot opening performance at Glastonbury this year. The Futureheads also get in on the action, and then special guest Newton Faulkner takes to the stage armed with songs, great big songs from his No.1 Debut record 'Handbuilt By Robots' and his hit follow up 'Rebuilt By Humans'.
Doves, then headline the day with a 90 minute set, they come to North Yorkshire to celebrate their new 'Best of' collection 'The Places Between: The Best Of Doves' which was released in April.
The show will also feature tracks from their epochal debut 'Lost Souls', the Mercury Music Prize nominated 'The Last Broadcast', widescreen masterpiece 'Some Cities', and not least, last year's critically acclaimed gem, 'Kingdom Of Rust'. Emotionally resonant skyscraping choruses brush shoulders with tenderly touching moments of musical beauty and the idylic setting of Scarborough's Open Air Theatre, as the evening creeps into nightfall, is surely going to
be one of the must see events of the summer. Bring it on.
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though the exact number remains elusive. Needless to say, I love it. It's a magical experience, with no equivalent that I know of anywhere else in the UK calendar.
I've done it with a big crowd of mates, a small crowd of mates and I've done it solo. I've worked on the food stalls, enjoying reserved camping, toilets and taps, but mostly gone as a humble punter. I've gone on a motorbike, I've hitched there on foot, taken a Land Rover and taken various cars. I've taken my own tent, blagged a pod in a massive tent, slept in the hedge, slept in the driver's seat of the FPO's Yaris, and best of all, slept in the back of a huge estate car.
This year I forgot the tickets were on sale until 3 hours after the box office opened. Too late. Arse.
Next time I'm getting my act together.
If I can blag or borrow an estate car, that's the best way to do it; stroll around traveling light all day. Drag your weary carcass back to the luxury of a long estate car in the early hours and snore your way to the morning without annoying anyone else, without having some pilled up casualty trip over your guy ropes at 4 a.m., and without some plonker two tents away either shagging noisily all night, playing a stereo all night or setting fire to their tent and screaming hysterically just before dawn while shaking themselves free of smoking, dripping, melting nylon (all of which I have experienced).
I'd venture that going there solo could be pretty intimidating if you haven't been before. It's easy to feel rather lonely even in a blissed out crowd if you haven't anyone to talk to. The last time I did it solo, I bumped into two good mates around 30 minutes after I'd got my tent up, but you can't always be that lucky.
Nearer the time, perhaps we should organise a Word Glasto Posse, and then any solo fliers can come along and enjoy the madness with some new mates?
