2012 CARNIVALS AND FESTIVALS

Think we should start a list of carnivals or festivals on this year. would also be good to know if anyone here is playing/bringing equipment/involved etc
I'll start - Love Luton Festival friday evening 6th july - Sunday 8th July.

nottinghill smiley36

Every week's a Carnival in Southend.

Bee/ben are you doing any floats this year? when is southends actual festival/carnival type event? i know mrvin sometimes does a float up there

hoping too, cant confirm number of floats yet, but it could be ten plus.... not mine but friends and people i work with. Im sure ken will be running a few floats and ligwa too, so it will be a busy but great weekend for me...... helping out and having a great time....

I'm still wondering if it would be financially viable for me to do more carnivals, I'm taking three artics to Notting Hill this year. The easy part is getting the tractor units and trailers (I just hire them off my employer!), the hard part is the insurances, driver 'conditioning', scaffold and genset etc etc....

The day carnivals would probably be easier to organise, but the three day bank holiday affair that is Notting Hill is probably the most extreme in the UK from a logistics point of view.

How do you go about getting a static pitch at carnivals? I am thinking Notting Hill mainly, would love to bring the system down for the weekend. Is it a who you know not what you know type affair?

PauliePaul wrote: I'm still wondering if it would be financially viable for me to do more carnivals, I'm taking three artics to Notting Hill this year. The easy part is getting the tractor units and trailers (I just hire them off my employer!), the hard part is the insurances, driver 'conditioning', scaffold and genset etc etc....

The day carnivals would probably be easier to organise, but the three day bank holiday affair that is Notting Hill is probably the most extreme in the UK from a logistics point of view.

Midlands to London and back, empty but even so, say 7mpg?
Ouch

nickyburnell wrote:

PauliePaul wrote: I'm still wondering if it would be financially viable for me to do more carnivals, I'm taking three artics to Notting Hill this year. The easy part is getting the tractor units and trailers (I just hire them off my employer!), the hard part is the insurances, driver 'conditioning', scaffold and genset etc etc....

The day carnivals would probably be easier to organise, but the three day bank holiday affair that is Notting Hill is probably the most extreme in the UK from a logistics point of view.

Midlands to London and back, empty but even so, say 7mpg?
Ouch

MAN 440 TGA's are doing 8 to 9 and the Renault Premiums are doing 9 to 10... I'll be taking Premiums again this year.... smiley14

paul are you gona be with kayak this year? as cold and rainy as it is today i'm getting into the carnival vibe for some reason!? anyone got any info on whats going down at other carnivals this year? birmingham, manchester, leeds, derby etc?? any good reggae, roots dub sites?