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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 
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It's that time again when May morning has passed and thoughts turn to summer days and nights... First, thanks to everyone who came out for our CONVOY weekend, there were some great performances to whet our appetites for TRUCK festival. Many of those who appeared - including Calories, Grammatics, Pulled Apart By Horses, The Joy Formidable, The Xcerts, Dusty & The Dreaming Spires and Ute - will be back at Hill Farm in July. There are still tickets left for TRUCK, though they are selling fast- don't leave it too late to get yours.

First up though, and in just over a week's time we'll be circling the wagons at Braziers Park for WOOD!

There's a fantastic music line-up including Brakes, Dodgy, Karine Polwart, Spiers & Boden, Po' Girl, The Week That Was and Meic Stevens, workshops on everything from felt-making to composting, talks on Oak trees and earth economics, solar-powered fairground rides, a busy kids' tent, the radical midwives, the wood café, the Hippy Arms selling fine beverages... we could go on. It's a great way to welcome in the summer.

For those that really can't stand to camp, or can only make one day, we are putting day tickets on sale now, priced £18 for Friday and £23 for Saturday or Sunday. Click here to buy yours. They will be more expensive on the gate so it's worth buying yours in advance.

Weekend tickets are still available, priced £55, online and in local stores. Enjoy both TRUCK and WOOD by purchasing a Supertrucker ticket for £110, saving a tenner in the process.

If you don't like pitching a tent, and do like living like a Mongolian nomad, why not hire a yurt for WOOD, provided by the folks at www.yurtevents.co.uk. These can be booked via the ticket page on Wegottickets.

That's all for now, we're off to plant a living roof on top of the WOOD stage...

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Monday, April 06, 2009 










Dear Truckers,
We thought it was time for the first delivery of bands that are all
confirmed to play at TRUCK 12 on 25/26th July. Sorry, no Megadeth! but
we are pleased to announce some of our all-time favourite bands will be
appearing at Hill Farm, Steventon:
Local heroes SUPERGRASS will headline on the Sunday night, while ASH
shine a light and bring the hits to the Truck Stage on the Saturday.
Joined by the best new bands on the back of a truck, including RED LIGHT COMPANY and DETROIT SOCIAL CLUB.



Last year's favourites YACHT will play the Barn Stage in their only UK
festival appearance. Sunday is Rock-day in the barn, with AND SO I
WATCH YOU FROM AFAR, PULLED APART BY HORSES and CALORIES already
confirmed; DATA SELECT PARTY and many more will appear on the Saturday.
Over in the Beat Hive ERRORS, HELOISE AND THE SAVOIR FAIRE, CHEW LIPS,
SPORTSDAY MEGAPHONE and NERVOUS TESTPILOT are all confirmed.



Inspired by our succesful experiment at WOOD last year, The Market
stage will be run on solar power this year. It will feature new 4AD
signings BROKEN RECORDS on the Saturday, and on Sunday will be curated
by Steventon’s own Bob Harris, presenting GARY LOURIS & MARK OLSON
(The Jayhawks), PETE MOLINARI and MIKE HERON and GEORGIA SEDDON
(Incredible String Band songwriter performing with his daughter) with
more great names to come.


Tickets costing £70 for the whole weekend are on sale from:
wegottickets

gigantic

seetickets



and these shop outlets:

OXFORD: Scribbler, Videosyncratic (Cowley Rd & Summertown), Music Box

ABINGDON: Mostly Books, Local Roots

WITNEY: Rapture

DIDCOT: Baby John's Guitar World

WALLINGFORD: Toby English Books

READING: Guitar works

HIGH WYCOMBE: Counter Culture

LONDON: Rough Trade East



Keep your eyes peeled for more announcements over the coming weeks.

We've worked out how to use Twitter so come join us – here.

Or visit our website.



TRUCK is an independent, family-run festival founded in 1998.

The local Rotary Club provide the food and the vicar sells ice-cream.

In 2008 truckers helped raise over £50,000 for charities and good causes.



WOOD:



We also run WOOD,
a smaller event which runs entirely on renewable power, at Braziers
Park, Oxfordshire on May 15th-17th. The line-up for WOOD includes
Brakes, Karine Polwart, Spiers & Boden, Po' Girl and Meic Stevens,
as well as a host of workshops and activities.  The Supertrucker ticket
will get you access to both events at a discount.
Happy Monday from all at Truck HQ

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Friday, March 20, 2009 

Current mood:  creative

SATURDAY
4th, 6-8pm OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL at Christchuch College: a
lyric-writing workshop led by Robin Bennett with Oxford poet (and
Vashti Bunyan collaborator) Jenny Lewis (pictured). Tickets £12 from www.oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk

And then race over to the COTSWOLD SPRING LAGER LAUNCH at Chipping
Norton Town Hall, with DUSTY and the DREAMING SPIRES (D.A.D.S)
alongside Danny the Champ, Josh Bray and Toby Sebastian, on Saturday
4th April, from 7pm. Well worth a jaunt to the Cotswolds. TICKETS
£7.50, includes a FREE PINT! www.wegottickets.com

FRIDAY 10th, 8pm. D.A.D.S be rocking the TRUCK EASTER EGG HUNT in
the intimate confines of The Chester Arms (on Chester St off Iffley
Road, Oxford) on Good Friday -FREE ENTRY.

THURSDAY 16th, 10am-4pm CHILDREN’S RAINFOREST FESTIVAL at FUSION
ARTS, Cowley Road. Art, dance, music and craft workshop on the life of
the rainforest. For children up to 14 yrs. Under 7’s must be
accompanied by an adult. Tickets £15 day / £10 for morning or afternoon
only. To register call 01235 821262 or email Claire@thisistruck.com

SATURDAY 18TH RECORD STORE DAY – RAPTURE, WITNEY. We’lll be there!

THURSDAY 23rd, 8pm WOOD FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY at The Oakford Social
Club, Reading. Free Entry. Including Neil Halstead, The Loose Salute
and Danny & the Champions of the World.

FRIDAY 24th and SATURDAY: CAMDEN CRAWL- Danny & the Champs appearing.

SUNDAY 26th WOOD PREVIEW 2-7pm with music from Danny & the
Champions of the World, Dusty Songbook and kids’ art workshops from
Truck Arts. FREE ENTRY

And of course, TRUCK tickets are on sale now- click here to buy yours.

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Thursday, March 12, 2009 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Music

Dear Truckers,
Tickets for TRUCK TWELVE, which will take place on July 25 &
26th 2009 at Hill Farm, Steventon, are about to go on sale (at
12:12pm). You know what to do.
INTERNETZ:
wegottickets/truck
OXFORD: Scribbler, Videosyncratic (Cowley Rd & Summertown), Music Box
ABINGDON: Mostly Books, Local Roots, WITNEY: Rapture
DIDCOT: Baby John's Guitar World, WALLINGFORD: Toby English Books
READING: Guitar Works,
HIGH WYCOMBE: Counter Culture
Parking will be charged at £7 in advance (or £10 on the gate), for
which you'll receive a TRUCK monster ticket for your car windscreen!
This should ensure we avoid last year's traffic jam-
or why not avoid driving altogether? For the same price you can get our
bus service to and from the site. Buy your ticket from our ticket page or direct from Festival Coaches. Pick-ups are from Oxford or Didcot Parkway - if you're coming from further we'd recommend train to Didcot or bus to Oxford.
While purchasing your tickets online you can also pre-order your
festival merchandise, including our lovely T-shirts, hoodies and CD.
Yes, this year's design will feature the monster! You can also get a
handy programme and CD combo (the programme will again be a
high-quality edition co-authored with Plan B magazine). If you buy your
ticket in a shop you can still buy bus tickets and merchandise online afterwards.
In just over 2 months it's the second WOOD festival at Braziers Park
on May 15th-17th: a limited number of Supertrucker tickets are still
available, giving you access to both WOOD and TRUCK
and saving £15 in the process. Only a few left!
CLICK HERE
to buy yours.
We are able to announce some amazing names for WOOD:
Brakes and The Week That Was on Friday 15th May; Dodgy playing
acoustic on the 16th (check out their version of CSNY's Ohio for a
surprise- they had the market field packed at last year's TRUCK for a
joyous Good Enough singalong..) and the wonderful, award-winning Karine
Polwart in Sunday 17th.
All added to the already mouth-watering list of:
Spiers & Boden, Jim Moray, Po' Girl, Danny and the Champions,
Stornoway, Jonquil and KTB, as well as the usual array of talks,
workshops and activities, plus a new children's tent.
TRUCK line-up announcements will follow in the usual steady dribble
over the next few months... we promise you it's going to be awesome
(and we try to avoid saying awesome unless awe is actually inspired)
and in keeping with the legendary TRUCK spirit. Keep checking our
WEBPAGE
and
MYSPACE
for the latest...
Thanks folks,
Robin & the truckers


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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 

Current mood:  awake

uniTRUCK 2008

Brought to you by the people behind Truck Festival, UniTRUCK is an annual indoor festival held specially at Bucks and Chiltern Students Union. This years event takes place on Thursday 27th November.

Like a real festival, there will be market stalls, grass, cows, and food stalls, and yes plenty of bands.

On the eclectic line up are recent Kaiser Chief supports THE HAIR, amazing disco funk mental madcappers DEAD KIDS, angular indie popsters JOHNNY FOREIGNER warming up for a tour with The Futureheads, and electro glamsters WHITE ROSE MOVEMENT. And that's not all… There will also be an acoustic room with old time blues from MARCUS BOFANTI, electro-acoustic beatmaster THE TELIVISION TALKS and DIY troubadour ROD THOMAS.

UniTRUCK is the perfect introduction to the world of TRUCK, an annual festival held in the village of Steventon (South Oxfordshire) which has been named "Best Small Festival" at the UK Festival Awards.
TRUCK also hosts the WOOD and HARVEST FESTIVALS For more information on Truck please visit www.thisistruck.com

Tickets are £5 in advance £7 on the door available from www.ticketweb.co.uk
Tickets are free for students if you register at www.bucksstudent.com/events

Bucks Student Union, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 2JZ

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Monday, August 18, 2008 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music
TRUCK enterprises and the ISIS Farmhouse present

HARVEST - Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th September 2008

The makers of WOOD and TRUCK festivals join forces with Jonathan and Jane, owners of the Isis Farmhouse in Oxford, to celebrate the Harvest Moon!

Two stages of music overlooking the meadow:

Saturday 13th September
Hot Club of Cowtown
Coute Diomboulu feat. Jali Fily Cissokho
Piney Gir & the Age of Reason
Gabriel Minnikin

Sunday 14th September
The Magic Numbers
Danny & the Champions of the World
Coley Park
President Sweetheart
+ a very special Western Swing workshop with Hot Club of Cowtown

more acts to be announced on both days
Doors 11am, Music starts at 1pm

Talks, Workshops, Crafts, Games and Nature walks
Like those dimly-remembered Harvest festivals of our youth, only better!

No muddy festival camping - sleep in your own bed!
Easy access on foot to Oxford centre, or why not come by bike or boat?
The Isis is situated on the Thames towpath between Donnington Bridge and Iffley Lock

Capacity strictly limited for this special event-
Tickets £20 per day, Combined Harvester weekend pass- £30. Under 14s free
available from www.thisistruck.com or The Isis,
Videosyncratic (Cowley Rd/Summertown), Mostly Books (Abingdon), Toby English Books (Wallingford)

The Isis Farmhouse serve food and drink, using organic and local suppliers where possible-
Please do not bring your own. Cotswold Lager and Wheat Beer on tap!

Cycle Parking Available

www.thisistruck.com / www.theisisfarmhouse.co.uk

http://www.wegottickets.com/f/371
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Monday, July 14, 2008 

Current mood:  excited
Category: News and Politics
TRUCK WARMUP SHOW WITH THE LEMONHEADS

OXFORD THE BULLINGDON ARMS:

FRI 18TH JUL, 2008 7pm to 10.30pm

The Lemonheads, Frank Turner & more join the Bullingdon club this Friday!

No, not the Tory-boy drinking cult, they are playing a Truck festival warm-up in the backroom at the Bully on Oxford's Cowley Road. In total FOUR of the headliners from the festival will be appearing, including a special full band set from The Lemonheads in this intimate venue, a solo set from Frank Turner and a DJ set from Lady Genevieve. At only a tenner, we expect tickets for this to sell out pretty fast, so we're telling Truckers and festival fans first. It's an early show, doors at 7pm. It'll be a 'were-you-there' evening for sure!


THE LEMONHEADS
FRANK TURNER
DANNY & THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD
DJ LADY GENEVIEVE...!
£10.



Small venue will sell out VERY quickly.



http://www.wegottickets.com/event/33706

xxx
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 

Current mood:  hungry
Category: Food and Restaurants
Sensational antipodean cousins-in-law Aussie Battler make their debut at the traditional pre-Truck Barbecue at The Windmill, Brixton, alongside some familiar faces and very special guests. Get a bit of Truck almost every day in Brixton, with 4 great shows to keep you going.



More info and tickets at www.windmillbrixton.co.uk

Kicking off this Sunday 13th July:


Truck Festival Launch Party & BBQ
Danny & The Champions of the World + Dusty Sound System + Y + Aussie Battler + Kathleen Haskard + Chris Rushton
5pm; £5


Wed 16 July
Truck Festival Preview Gig 1
Alphabet Backwards + Witches + guests
8pm; £3

Thurs 17 July
Truck Festival Preview Gig 2
Television Personalities + Milk Kan + Jack Ladder (Aus)
8pm; £5

Fri 18 July
Truck Festival Preview Gig 3
Stornoway + The Minnikins (Canada) The Bronsteins + guests
8pm; £4
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 

Current mood:  enthralled
Category: Life


DAY TRUCKER TICKETS NOW ON SALE £40 PER DAY! http://www.wegottickets.com/f/262



Other all-action features this year include:



Cowshed Rave Starring Altern 8, The Nextmen and King Cannibal

Vacuous Pop! With These New Puritans, Youthmovies and more

Sonic Cathedral Sunday Service with Maps and Neil Halstead

Piney's Pavilion with Craft Night, Panther Girls and Wedding Singalong

Market Stage with Martin Simpson and a special acoustic set from Dodgy

Champions of the World with Laura Marling, Eamon Hamilton & more

The Magnificent Revolutionary Cycling Cinema with bikes

The Village Pub Pub Rock Stage with booze

The Dome with beats from Yacht, James Rutledge and more...

Dr Feelgood's Happy Brain Massage Clinic!

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Thursday, April 24, 2008 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Parties and Nightlife
MORE TRUCKING NEWS…

Okkervil River have been confirmed as the main support to The Lemonheads at this year's Truck Festival.

The Texans will support Evan Dando and co. as they perform 1992 album It's a Shame About Ray in its entirety on Saturday the 19th of July.

These New Puritans, Television Personalities, Lovvers, Maps and Noah and the Whale are all also on the bill which takes place on the 19-20th of July.

Adult weekend tickets are still available from WeGotTickets.com at a price of £60.

In other news, Truck is one of four nominees in the Best Festival category of this year's Indy Awards, which take place tomorrow.
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