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Formerly known as the ‘Rockinbeerfest’, this annual event has grown and evolved into the ‘Cambridge Rock Festival’. Run and staffed by the same people, this is one of the more sociable events, where you can be sure to meet lots of old friends, and make new ones.
Although camping on site is an option, I usually stay in a hotel a few miles down the road, which, as luck would have it, is more-or-less equidistant between Godmanchester and Haggis Farm, at Cambridge services on the A14. But since I’ve been staying there, it’s had three different names. This year, 2010, it’s the Days Inn.
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Rockinbeerfest 2006, Godmanchester. Pictures of people off-stage.
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More from the 2006 Rockinbeerfest - Eddie and The Hot Rods, the Wilco Johnson Band, and John Otway & the Big Band.
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Rockinbeerfest 2006 again - Other bands, including Deborah Bonham, The Blockheads, and Big 10.
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2010
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In 2009, The CRF moved to a new venue, Haggis Farm, on the outskirts of Cambridge. I can’t remember why, but we didn’t go that year. Whatever it was, we approached 2010 with renewed enthusiasm. Day 1, Thursday, featured: STAGE 1; Pure Floyd Show, Smokin’ Hogs, Split Whiskers, Led Zep Too, The 80s Rocked (but didn’t stay until the end). STAGE 2; Rowse, Forever Living Dead, The Treatment, Joanofarc, Virginmarys, Two Choices. The bands I actually watched are shown in white.
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CRF Day 2, Friday: STAGE 1; Radio Silence, Who’s Next?, UXL, Lost Weekend, Newman, Voodoo Johnson, Danny Bryant’s Redeye Band, Deborah Bonham, Tygers Of Pan Tang, STAGE 2; Flaming June, Winter In Eden, Dawn Trader, Final Conflict, Geoff Watson, Crimson Sky, The Dreaming Tree, Declan Burke Band, Parallel Or 90 Degrees.
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CRF Day 3, Saturday (a marathon day): STAGE 1; Wolf Law, Chantel McGregor, Medicine Hat, Four Wheel Drive, Freeway, Stray, Larry Miller, Saxon (billed as Oliver Dawson Saxon), Monsters Of British Rock. STAGE 2; Adrian Nation, The E-Zee Band, Emerald Sky, Chris Corney, Paddy Goes To Holyhead,Peter Appleyard, Taildragger, The Famous Class, Ma Mentor, Will Evans.
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CRF Day 4, Sunday: STAGE 1; 10 Earth, Panic Room, KyrbGrinder, Breathing Space, Aireya 51, Praying Mantis, Hazel O’Connor and The Subterraneans, The Enid (again, I didn’t stay until the end), Mostly Autumn. STAGE 2; Killer Bs, The Mustangs, Cherry Lee Mewis, Gunrunner, Jimmy Dublin’s Hothob, Storm Warning, Thrre Piece Suite, Blues Shift, The Blizzarrds.
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2011
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2011, and it’s back to Haggis Farm. I arrived late through ‘unforseen circumstances’, so only took a few ‘background’ pictures, with none of the bands. The line-ups were: Stage 1; The Skynyrd Experience, Split Whiskers, The Pure Floyd Show, Ultimate Eagles, The Hamsters. Stage 2;
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Day 2, Friday: Stage 1; Neuronspoiler, Smokin’ Hogs, Remus Down Boulevard, Sacred Heart, Heather Findlay Band, Slam, John Otway and The Big Band, Bubblegum Screw, Eddie and The Hot Rods. Stage 2; Meet The Ledge, Beepy Sessions, Angstrom, Manning.
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Day 3, Saturday: Stage 1; Cherry Lee Mewis, Steve Boyce Band, Ebony Tower, Stolen Earth, Swans In Flight, Panic Room, Chantel McGregor, Larry Miller, The Quireboys. Stage 2; Blues Jam, Beepy Sessions, The Jives, Gunrunner, Greenmac, The Heaters, Roy Mette, Roscoe Levee, Jay Tamkin, Buster James, The Bizzarros.
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Day 4, Sunday: Stage 1; Empire Of Fools, Final Conflict, Jebo, Crimes Of Passion, Credo, John Young Band, Mr. So & So, Mostly Autumn, Caravan, The Enid. Stage 2; Sidewinder, Blackwebb, Ben Poole, The Mustangs, Bad Influence, Elephant Shelf, Roadhouse, Three Piece Suite, Mister Pink.
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