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Category: Writing and Poetry
Rob da Bank’s A-Z of Festivals
My Life of Music, Mud and Mayhem in 26 Letters
Illustrated by Josie da Bank and published in hardback by Boxtree on 1st May 2009
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A personal celebration of music, festivals and how they bring people together. Encompassing a myriad of global festivals, from Iceland to the Isle of Wight, this is the definitive guide to British and world music festivals.
At a time when festival-going has become an intrinsic part of the British summer, Bestival and Rob da Bank are very much at the forefront of this burgeoning scene. Covering everything from Glastonbury to Coachella, Paul McCartney to Ozzy Osbourne, BBC Radio One to Woodstock this is one man’s up close and personal love letter to The Festival.
“I spend approximately 12 hours a day 365 days a year thinking about festivals - when I wake up, while I'm changing nappies, if I’m watching the box and before I go to bed. It's got beyond a joke but I can’t leave the blasted things alone. I haven’t been to anywhere near enough of them around the world but I do know a lot about them so I decided to write a book with some beautifully eccentric illustrations from my wife Josie.” Rob da Bank CLICK HERE TO BUY FROM AMAZON.CO.UK
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Rob da Bank is the owner of one of the UK’s best known festivals and record label (Sunday Best), an influential party organiser and a BBC Radio 1 DJ. He filled the late John Peel’s Thursday night slot for 18 months and now has two weekly shows of his own.
His festival Bestival - the three times winner of Best Medium Sized Festival - has established itself as one of the most fun and popular annual music gatherings, treating 40,000 to the summer’s joyful final fling, packed with madcap features (ukulele players, physics demonstrations, laughter clubs) and a killer line-up. The most recent string to Rob’s eclectic bow is Camp Bestival, winner of last year’s Best New Festival award.
Everything from Bestival to his Sunday Best record label (it launched Groove Armada and Lemon Jelly back in the late ‘90s and propelled dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip and teenage rockabillies Kitty, Daisy and Lewis into the charts) share the sense that they’re a testing ground for future stars as well as celebrating off-trend old-school brilliance.
He lives in London with his wife Josie and two children.
Rob da Bank is available for interview. For further information and to request a review copy please contact Sandra Taylor via email s.taylor@macmillan.co.uk
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