Nene Valley Rock Festival is a new weekend festival of live rock music, at Nene Park near Peterborough on 31st August to 3rd September 2023. Featuring over 60 bands playing Classic Rock, Blues and Prog Rock, it will showcase performances by legendary artists including Ten Years After, Colosseum and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, as well as old favourites and some up-and-coming young acts.
Festival organisers are running a Crowdfunding campaign – details can be found HERE. The crowdfunder will run for 6 weeks. “We need pledges to buy at least 400 adult full 4 day festival tickets during this period to make the festival viable.”
Crowdfunding details:
- The crowdfunder will run for 6 weeks. We need pledges to buy at least 400 adult full 4 day festival tickets during this period to make the festival viable.
- When pledging to buy tickets through the crowdfunder, money will initially be taken from your account and placed in a Crowdfunder ringfenced account. It will be held there until the crowdfunder target (400 adult full 4 day festival tickets) is reached, at which point it will be forwarded to us so that we can proceed with the festival.
- If we do not reach the target, you will be refunded directly by Crowdfunder. This means there is no risk to ticket buyers if the festival can’t go ahead.
- Only 1000 Adult full 4 day (Thu-Sun) festival tickets will be available, so pledge to buy a ticket early to avoid disappointment.
- Only adult and child full 4 day festival tickets will be available during the crowdfunder period.
- Pledges to buy tickets during the crowdfunder period will benefit from the early bird price of £129 for adults and £35 for young persons under 16 years of age. Under 10s are £1.
- After the crowdfunder ends or we when meet the target (400 adult full 4 day festival tickets), the price of full weekend tickets will increase to £149 for adults and we guarantee that even if any discounts are offered, the price will not be less than the £129 early bird price.
- Day tickets may be offered later depending on the take-up of full festival tickets
- Camping and motorhome tickets will be made available once the crowdfunder. target (400 adult full 4 day festival tickets) is reached. We are planning an on-site camping facility about 200m from the music arena allowing for tents, motorhomes and caravans. The cost for tents is expected to be £65 and for motorhomes expected to be £75 for the weekend. Extra hookups will also be available at an additional cost of approximately £60 for the weekend.
Line-up for NVRF23:
Swan and Heron stages
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 11pm
These two stages will be housed in one marquee and will alternate.
This means you can see every band listed here if you wish!
Each section is in alphabetical order
Main Headliners
Colosseum
Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Ten Years After
Main Supports:
Corky Laing’s Mountain
Hand Of Dimes
Ken Pustelnik’s Groundhogs
Lifesigns
Quo Connection
Rhabstallion
Space Elevator
Square Wild
One more to be confirmed
Plus all these:
Blues Boy Kings ~ Eyes Of Albion ~ Haze ~ Genius The Fool ~ Jamie Porter Band ~ Last Flight To Pluto ~ Martin Ledger Band ~ McHale’s Permanent Brew ~ Predatur ~ Sam Millar & the Sass Bandits ~ Spriggan Mist ~ T Clemente Band ~ The Far Meadow ~ Viper Soup Complex ~ Winter In Eden
Kingfisher stage
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 11pm
This stage will be housed in a different marquee and offer a contrast.
This means that, hopefully, there will always be something you like!
Each section is in alphabetical order
Headliners and Main Supports:
Aiden Pryor ~ Austin Gold ~ Empyre ~ Hayley Griffiths ~ Hunted By Elephants ~ Papa Shango ~ Pearl Handled Revolver ~ Sons Of Liberty ~ The Emerald Dawn
Plus all these:
Also Eden ~ Atlas ~ Beguiled ~ Blackballed ~ Broken Lines ~ Bullitt Blues Revival ~ Crowbone ~ Dead Jackals ~ Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham (acoustic) ~ Lilith’s Army ~ ROME ~ Ruby Dawn ~ Stan The Band ~ The Blue Lena ~ The Gift ~ The Paradox Twin ~ This House We Built ~ Thr3e ~ Trilogy + 2 more t.b.a.
Thursday Extravaganzas!
5.30pm to 11pm
The two marquees will operate differently!
Each will offer a very different type of music.
Prog Extravaganza!
Noddy’s Puncture (ELP tribute)
Skylines (Camel tribute)
Progfathers (Prog covers)
Rock Extravaganza!
Leaf Hound
t.b.a
Daxx & Roxane ~ Derecho
- All stages housed in fully covered marquees.
- One marquee will house two stages, playing alternately – none of those bands will play at the same time as each other. You won’t have to choose between them! Each band on these stages will play a minimum of an hour; later bands for longer.
- Third stage in separate marquee to offer a distinct contrast.
- Food and real ale bar (with other drinks available).
- All bands listed have agreed to play but we reserve the right to make alterations without notice should their circumstances change and they are unable to perform.
- You are pledging to buy tickets for the event as a whole, not individual bands or days. We hope not to change anything, but recent years have shown us all that it could happen.
Our location:
- Set in the picturesque Nene Park on the outskirts of Peterborough.
- Dedicated campsite for tents, motorhomes and caravans.
- Electrical hook-ups will be available.
- The site is very close to a number of hotels (nearest just one mile away) and there are other camping and caravan facilities you can book privately.
- There are bus stops just outside the entrance to the campsite and Peterborough is well served by trains.
- There will be on-site parking available for those not camping.
- Nene Park / Ferry Meadows has its own farm shop and restaurant. They have offered to make “breakfast bags” available for pre-order (sorry, not free!)
- The overall site is huge and open to the public and very family friendly. We have exclusive use of two large fields within it but you can use any of the wider facilities.
- There is a river down one side and a steam train line down another side of our music arena (all very picturesque!). Please be aware if you are bringing children.
- The event is subject to contract and obtaining the necessary licences. This is normal practice, but we have to tell you that!
Stay up to date with latest announcements on their official Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/867162134628889