The Square Festival
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The Square Festival is an annual music festival held in Borth
, Ceredigion
, Mid Wales
, which was set up in 2005 as a small festival for the small seaside village. In 2008 it grew to become a commercial festival for up to 3,000 people over two days. In 2009 the organisers hosted the festival over three days with a capacity for 5,000 people. In 2010 the festival organisers made the decision not to host the square festival.
and Alabama 3
headlining the main stage on Saturday and Sunday respectively.
Due to the success of 2008, organisers plan to increase the capacity of the festival for future years.
and The Holloways
on the Friday, Skindred
and 65 Days of Static
on the Saturday, and The Beat
on the Sunday.
As well as music, the 2009 festival planned to include a Human Zoo, a clothes swap shop, a Man Made island for Hammocks and an attempt to break the World Record
for most people skinny dipping
at one time, however due to financial and organisational constraints none of this was possible .
2009 was a difficult year financially and organisationally, there are many a crease that need to be ironed out before we consider hosting another event, And an increasingly competitive market for music festivals and the reasonably bleak economic climate has also added to the decision not host the event in 2010. In the future we will be going "Back to basics" and reduce the number of stages and the capacity to focus on delivering a well produced event. Our line up will be kept to an erratic nature and we aim to give a good dose of youth culture to the west coast of Wales.
Thank you to everybody for your support to date. It has been quite an adventure .
Borth
Borth ) is a coastal village 7 miles north of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Mid Wales. The population was 1,523 in 2001.-Features and history:Borth has a sandy beach and is a popular holiday seaside resort...
, Ceredigion
Ceredigion
Ceredigion is a county and former kingdom in mid-west Wales. As Cardiganshire , it was created in 1282, and was reconstituted as a county under that name in 1996, reverting to Ceredigion a day later...
, Mid Wales
Mid Wales
Mid Wales is the name given to the central region of Wales. The Mid Wales Regional Committee of the National Assembly for Wales covered the counties of Ceredigion and Powys and the area of Gwynedd that had previously been the district of Meirionydd. A similar definition is used by the BBC...
, which was set up in 2005 as a small festival for the small seaside village. In 2008 it grew to become a commercial festival for up to 3,000 people over two days. In 2009 the organisers hosted the festival over three days with a capacity for 5,000 people. In 2010 the festival organisers made the decision not to host the square festival.
2008
In its first year as a commercial venture, The Square Festival was held on July 26 and 27, and was attended by almost 2,900 people. It had four stages hosting over 40 acts, with PendulumPendulum (band)
Pendulum is an Australian drum and bass and electronic rock band founded in 2002 in Perth by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, and Paul Harding.Swire and McGrillen were members of the rock band known as Xygen. After hearing Konflict's "Messiah" at a club, they were inspired to enter into the drum and...
and Alabama 3
Alabama 3
Alabama 3 are a British band mixing rock, dance, blues, country, and gospel styles, founded in Brixton, London, in 1995. In the United States, they are known as A3, allegedly to avoid any possible legal conflict with the country music band Alabama...
headlining the main stage on Saturday and Sunday respectively.
Due to the success of 2008, organisers plan to increase the capacity of the festival for future years.
2009
The 2009 festival took place on 24–26 July on the same site as the previous year. Over three days the festival had five stages, including one dedicated to new music from Welsh bands. The Main stage was headlined by SupergrassSupergrass
Supergrass was an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consisted of brothers Gaz and Rob Coombes , Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey ....
and The Holloways
The Holloways
The Holloways are a four-piece indie-rock band from North London.-Formation:David Jackson and Bryn Fowler established the beginnings of the band, finding Rob Skipper at a local live music venue. They would meet later to jam together, playing in future drummer Dave Danger's room...
on the Friday, Skindred
Skindred
Skindred is a Welsh rock band from Newport. The band was formed in 1998 following the disbandment of vocalist Benji Webbe's previous band, Dub War. Skindred's musical style mixes alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and reggae...
and 65 Days of Static
65daysofstatic
65daysofstatic are an instrumental post-rock and math rock band from Sheffield, England comprising Paul Wolinski, Joe Shrewsbury, Rob Jones and Simon Wright...
on the Saturday, and The Beat
The Beat (band)
The Beat are a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in England in 1978. Their songs fuse ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock, and their lyrics deal with themes of love, unity and sociopolitical topics....
on the Sunday.
As well as music, the 2009 festival planned to include a Human Zoo, a clothes swap shop, a Man Made island for Hammocks and an attempt to break the World Record
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
for most people skinny dipping
Skinny dipping
Nude swimming, colloquially called skinny dipping, is a term used to describe swimming naked.-Etymology:The term skinny dip, first recorded in English in the 1950s, includes the somewhat archaic word skinny, known since 1573, meaning "having to do with skin", as it exposed the naked...
at one time, however due to financial and organisational constraints none of this was possible .
2010
In 2010 the organisers made to decision to have a gap year from the festival stating:2009 was a difficult year financially and organisationally, there are many a crease that need to be ironed out before we consider hosting another event, And an increasingly competitive market for music festivals and the reasonably bleak economic climate has also added to the decision not host the event in 2010. In the future we will be going "Back to basics" and reduce the number of stages and the capacity to focus on delivering a well produced event. Our line up will be kept to an erratic nature and we aim to give a good dose of youth culture to the west coast of Wales.
Thank you to everybody for your support to date. It has been quite an adventure .