The
crowd at the festival
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The
Underage Festival, Britain's first ever outdoor music festival
for 13- to 17-year-olds has been held in Victoria Park in
east London.
The
event was the brainchild of 15-year-old promoter, Sam Kilcoyne.
Sam set up the hugely successful Underage Club night at The
Coronet Theatre in Elephant and Castle, South London, after
he was refused admission to a gig because of his age. Younger
teenagers are able to enjoy the excitement of seeing live music,
but in an environment that is safe and legal with no alcohol
on sale.
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year on, Sam Kilcoyne has expanded his ambitions with the Underage
Festival. At the 8 hour long festival bands that played to the
5,000 audience from three stages included Crystal Castles, Cajun
Dance Party, Foals, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Johnny Flynn, Metros,
Mystery Jets, Patrick Wolf, I was a Cub Scout, Pull Tiger Tail,
The Rumble Strips, The Teenagers, The Young Knives, To My Boy,
Vincent Vincent and the Villians, and Xerox Teens.
The
big act at the festival was The Pigeon Detectives from Rothwell,
near Leeds. They have had a great year, playing at Glastonbury
and having their album ‘Wait for Me’ reaching number
three in the charts. The crowd sang along to every song and
went wild to ‘I'm Not Sorry’ and their new single ‘Take
Her Back’.
Sam Kilcoyne is quicker at putting on line-ups that young fans want
to see than the movers and shakers of the traditional music industry.
He is tapping into the old age desire to come together and listen
to music.
However his 13- to-17-year-old audiences could be the first group
finally to see that it is music that has power to make you enjoy
yourself rather than the drugs and alcohol that have come with it. |
Pigeon
Detectives - top act at festival |
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