Sounds In The Park is a British music festival

Music festival

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Created in the late 80's by the Stourbridge News editor Pete Wallace, at a time when the town was put on the map by local bands The Wonder Stuff / Neds Atomic Dustbin & Pop Will Eat Itself, Sounds in the park took place every summer in Mary Stevens Park (Stourbridge

Stourbridge

Stourbridge is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands of England. Historically part of Worcestershire, Stourbridge was a centre of glass making, and today includes the suburbs of Amblecote, Lye, Norton, Oldswinford, Pedmore, Wollaston, Wollescote and Wordsley The...

) showcasing the local talent or musicians and artists alike. It took place usually the weekend before or after Glastonbury.

1997

In 1997 after nearly going out of existence a group of people got together to try and breath new life into the event. These included The Dudley HIV & aids support group, The What Centre, The Warehouse Project, Lifted

Lifted

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, The councils CDU dept and many more. Figures that year rocketed from the usual 400 to over 8000 (police figure).

Bands

Bands Including:
Lift/Grassroots/summer street/Rifiki/ The Valentines / Monty Turnbull / 625 Special / Shaz
Vile/Blueliner/Grass / Downward Thing

Other features

• A Dance tent
• world music stage
• graffiti workshops
• skate ramp
• local artist stalls

The committee had to fight local opposition to the event from the unelected town council.