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FRIDAY 05 SEPTEMBER -
SATURDAY 06 SEPTEMBER - SUNDAY 07 SEPTEMBER
Welcome to the website of the
Groningen-Glasgow-Ireland festival or GGI Festival for short.
Edition #5
Groningen
is a small city in the North of Holland, Glasgow is a large city in
Scotland and Ireland is an island at the western edge of Europe.
So what’s it about?
Basically the festival is a celebration of the links between the punk rock
communities of Groningen in the Netherlands, Glasgow in Scotland and
Ireland. Over the last ten years bands such as Kidd Blunt from Ireland, Brawl from Wexford,
Ex-Cathedra from Glasgow and Link from Groningen have toured in
each others countries and many friendships have been made between people
from the three places. This link is still very much alive with Fleas and
Lice now having two Glaswegians in the band, Groningen bands Makiladoras,
Link and Fleas and Lice touring Ireland on separate occasions and Easpa
Measa washing up on the hospitality of Groningen people some summers ago, for
example.
Often at other punk festivals and concerts across Europe someone would run
up to us declaring their excitement at how “the Irish lot are here” or
“the Groningen crew are here” or “the Glasgow lot“ or whatever. Now we aim
to have our own festival, to build on the links there already, to build
new friendships, to debate and discuss aspects of our punk culture, to
have a good time! The festival will take place one weekend a year and will
rotate between the three places.
This year it will be in Groningen again, 2009 in Scotland
and 2010 in Ireland again. We hope people will come from other places in
Europe and beyond for the festival.
The festival is a three day gathering with live bands and other activities.
The festival is also an opportunity for you to meet new people, make new
friends, discuss and debate and party. We are very open to people
organising their own events within the festival so if there is something
you want to see happen why not organise it with us? Stalls and distros
welcome.
Who is it for?
The festival is for anyone interested in punk and its associated culture.
There is no age restrictions on the festival and children are welcome.
Last year in Ireland have been friendly, good natured events with a lot of
partying.
DIY & Non Profit
The festival is being organised on a DIY and Non-Profit basis.
DIY
- the event this year is being organised by Groningen punks themselves,
not by a commercial promoter, the motivation is celebration not
profiteering.
However please note: this is not Witness, Glastonbury, T in the Park or
the Pink Pop Festival, there will not be macrobiotic hairdressers etc,
however come with an open mind and you will have a good time.
Non profit - all the money from the tickets will go to pay bands,
hire equipment, transport, posters etc. The organisers and people working
at the festival are doing so from a belief in co-operation and mutual aid
rather than to make money.
However as it will be expensive to bring 10 bands to Groningen, pay the
costs the Groningen bands, hire material etc we do need people to help
us by buying tickets and supporting the event.
We also welcome offers of benefits etc to help pay for the
event. If we have money over after the festival it will go forward to
subsidise the next GGI festival in Scotland.
Volunteers
Please contact us if you like to help out with anything. We still need
alot
of people to help out so contact us and sign up for this years
GGI in Groningen!
EMAIL:
GGI [at] bacteria [dot] nl
Address: GGI, PO Box 752, 9700 AT Groningen, Netherlands
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