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Truck Festival offers alternative to UK summer fare
6 June 2000

England’s annual Truck Festival, to take place this year 22-23 July at Hill Farm, Steventon, Oxfordshire, was founded by a pair of brothers as an alternative to the already alternative-heavy UK summer festivals. Robin and Joe Bennet staged the first one in 1998 because the “mainstream festivals were too commercial and predictable, and anyway they couldn’t afford the train fares....”
Like Denmark’s Roskilde Festival, the Truck Festival is run entirely by volunteers, and benefits charities. Last year’s made £5,000 (euro8,500) for Amnesty International and local causes, and with this year’s attendee capacity upped to 4,000 and a new Barn stage added, the Bennets expect to generate even more.
Artists on tap this year include Tom Hingley (former vocalist with Manchester’s Inspiral Carpets), The Blue Aeroplanes, Autopsy, Whispering Bob, The Pecadiloes, Murry The Hump, Avalonian Free State Choir, and many others. Tickets are a shockingly inexpensive £10 (euro17) for the two day event. | NME story | | Festival info | | Tickets | | top of page |

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