Glastonbudget is an annual music festival

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 held in Leicestershire

Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

. The festival has been held since 2005 at Turnpost Farm, Wymeswold

Wymeswold

Wymeswold is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. It is in the north of Leicestershire, and north-east of Loughborough. It has a population of about 1,000...

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Initially started as a festival for tribute bands it has expanded in recent years to include a showcase for new acts as well as the main tribute stage. Interest in the festival and those attending has increased year on year with the 2009 festival seeing almost 6,000 festival goers in attendance.

Since 2006, the headline act has been a non-tribute band or artist. These have included Chas and Dave

Chas and Dave

Chas & Dave are an English pop rock duo, most notable as creators and performers of a musical style labelled "rockney", which mixes "pub singalong, music-hall humour, boogie-woogie piano and pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll"...

 (2006), Bad Manners

Bad Manners

Bad Manners are an English 2 Tone ska band. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the UK pop scene through their bald outsized frontman's on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze.They were at...

 (2008) and Chesney Hawkes

Chesney Hawkes

Chesney Lee Hawkes , is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his 1991 single "The One and Only", which topped the charts in the UK and reached the Top 10 in the U.S.-Life and career:...

 (2009).

Also since 2005 the main stage has been used for tribute bands or artists only, (with the exception to signed performers in the past few years before) however at the 2009 festival, opening tribute band Blurb were unable to attend so unsigned new acts band Heresy opened the festival on the main stage instead.

Glastonbudget 2011 is expected to be the biggest yet, with up to 10,000 people expected to pass through the three day festival.

Organisation

The event is organised annually by a small team including Chris Dunn and Nick Tanner, who take pride in the fact that they have never been to a mainstream music festival. The event is run and managed from a small base at The Harrow Inn, Thurmaston

Thurmaston

Thurmaston is a village and civil parish within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. As of the 2001 census its population was 8,945...

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Charity Links

The festival supports the work of the Soar Valley Music Centre which promotes the enjoyment and understanding of music for learners from all backgrounds. www.musicentre.co.uk

In 2010 Glastonbudget announced that they would be supporting Leicestershire-based charity LOROS www.loros.com LOROS (the Leicestershire and Rutland Organisation for the Relief of Suffering) is a local charity providing care and support within Leicestershire and Rutland.

Controversy

In late 2008 a dispute arose between people involved in organizing the festival which eventually ended with the trade mark and glastonbudget.co.uk domain being transferred to Mockstar limited. During the dispute, two websites existed with contradictory claims to who was running the festival.