Glastonwick Beer, Music, Poetry and More Beer Festival!

Event Information

Here’s the line up for Glastonwick 2023, our 26th (or 28th if you count online ones) Beer, Music, Poetry & More Beer Festival. Weekend tickets (with or without camping) go on sale today (1 Feb) and day tickets 1 March. There will be a limited number of physical tickets available at the Duke of Wellington from 1 April onwards. Scoopers’ tickets will be online only this year.

The festival will be held in a different barn (the one at the back, beyond the cider/food one) following farmers Jenny and Jerry’s decision to turn the main barn into a storage area. There are more details about this on the Glastonwick group page and we’re confident it will be a fine substitute: it is at least as big and has better airflow to keep the beer in good nick.

After the ‘recovery year’ last June when we had an ‘old faces’ line- up, it’s all change. We have 11 first time performers and, I am happy to say, more women on stage than ever before, approaching parity in terms of individual acts: this is something I have been working towards for years. Nobody who played last year is on this year apart from Mark Thomas, welcomed back by popular acclaim.

As ever, beer guru Alex Hall will be sourcing 60+ beers from small independent breweries local and national, many of them brewed specially for us. There will be local cider and perry, good food with vegetarian options and, of course, the legendary convivial Glastonwick atmosphere. Bring it on

All compered by Attila the Stockbroker

FRIDAY 6pm- midnight

THE MEOW MEOWS uplifting big band ska
ASBO DEREK garage cabaret
MARK THOMAS acerbic and hilarious
HELEN McCOOKERYBOOK Chefs, Helen & The Horns, Joby & the Hooligans (!)
INDIGNATION MEETING Blyth Power meets Eastfield meets The Partridge Family

SATURDAY 12 noon – midnight

EDDIE & THE HOT RODS Legendary R&B, as powerful as ever
TOO MANY CROOKS Brilliantly danceable ska
CAPTAIN HOTKNIVES Surrealist humour and lovely tunes
THE MONOCHROME SET Fellow Cherry Red pioneers. Fantastic witty songs
CAROL HODGE Passionate piano parables
(THE LEGENDARY) CRUCIBLE Early music/rock combo formed at Boundstone school in Lancing mid 70s by my old mates Chris Payne, Tony Lewis and Tim ‘O’Tay’ Vince. Huge personal influence! Chris Payne went on to Join Gary Numan’s band and fellow Numanite Trevor Grant joins original Crucible members Tony, Tim and Mike. I’ll be down the front.
DAVID ROVICS The US’s finest political songwriter
HAGAR THE WOMB seminal and influential punk
ISAAC HUGHES DENNIS George Formby meets Tom Lehrer meets Lemmy
BARNSTORMER 1649 my (Attila’s) band. First inspired by Crucible (see above)
LAURA TAYLOR Fantastic, passionate, political
FOSSILHEADS Climate cabaret with a hint of Brecht – and Monty Python

SUNDAY 12 noon – 6pm

MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Operatic and anthemic
JOHN OTWAY Now 70, still batshit
ALCOHOL LICKS Wonderful reggae/ska/punk
BEE & JACKRABBIT A little bit of My Life Story
CALUM BAIRD Fiery, political, Scottish