Godiva Round-Up 2010

Well, this years Godiva festival has been and gone, and after a few days of recovery we are back and raring to go. We will be adding a brand new image gallery onto the homepage shortly, as well as the official 2010 videos of the weekends musical highlights. It even has some back stage interviews never seen before from this year’s top headline artists over all three days.

I think we can safely say that with over 90,000 in attendance, it trumped last year exponentially. We can’t wait to see what next year brings, and we hope each and every one of you who attended and supported the 2010 event will be back next summer.

We also have a very important survey going live shortly which asks various questions on this years event, and how it can be made even better with your all-important feedback, so please, keep an eye out for that and we will be offering £100 in HMV vouchers for your time.

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Sunday Headline Announcement

We are pleased to confirm that the Sunday night headliner has been announced. Joshua Radin and his ‘Brand New Day’ tour will be taking the top spot at this years festival, bringing with him the delightful sounds of American Folk music.

Radin’s debut album, 2006’s ‘We Were Here’ drew critical acclaim. His favourite song is “You Got Growin’ Up To Do”. Radin has also had a number of well known musicians on his studio recordings, including Ryan Adams who played guitar on the song “Lovely Tonight”.

As of late Radin has achieved massive success in the UK and Europe, and has been there promoting his top 10 record “Simple Times” and his single “I’d Rather Be With You” which reached #2 on the charts. He has recently concluded a sold-out tour and will be back in the UK playing a number of festivals including Godiva, Glastonbury, Hard Rock Calling and Oxegen (Ireland), this summer. After the success of his first single, Radin has recently released the 2nd single off the UK release of Simple Times, “Brand New Day.”

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Sunday Lineup Confirmed

The final day of this years Godiva Festival can finally be revealed. The Sunday traditionally carries a relaxing, chilled out and family orientated experience, with world class stars taking to the stage to perform some well known classic tracks live to thousands of fans who come from all over to unwind and sing along too. This year is no different with Tiffany Page, Lee Mitchell, Kirsty Almeida, Jose Vanders, Andi Wolf and Verity Pabla all making an appearance. Its also the first time that the Electric Main Stage makes way for the mighty BBC Blast experience, definately one to watch out for. So, that’s its, the full weekend lineup is complete, all we need now is some fantastic sunshine and it will certainly be a top quality event that everyone can enjoy, absolutely FREE!

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Godiva Fringe

The Godiva Fringe is the latest addition to Coventry’s ever growing and increasingly successful Godiva Festival. Event organizers, CV One ltd decided to introduce the additional performances after listening to the opinions of the local community and artists concerning the presence of local bands at the festival.

CV One, The Belgrade Theatre and representatives from the local music community joined forces to create a new showcase event on Friday 2nd July. The Godiva Fringe will focus entirely on promoting local acts and artists within the CV post code area and will ultimately act as a platform to showcase the talents of homegrown acts to a wider audience.

Held at the City’s prestigious Belgrade Theatre, 15 Coventry and Warwickshire based acts will appear across two stages, The Godiva Fringe Main Stage in the B2 Arena featuring a selection of the finest bands the city currently has to offer and The Godiva Fringe Acoustic stage situated in the Belgrade Plaza featuring top acoustic acts from the local area.

The Godiva Fringe is a non profit making event with free admission to the general public, keeping it inline with the core ethics of the main Godiva Festival in the War Memorial Park, providing a full programme of entertainment free of charge.

Mick McLaughlin, Head of Marketing and Communications for CV One Ltd commented:

“We are absolutely thrilled to be able to extend this year’s Godiva Festival into the city centre; local music is and always will be at the heart of the festival and by introducing this fringe event we are able to give more local acts the chance to become part of this fantastic event. Our city is blessed by an abundance of musical talent spanning many different and diverse genres; the Godiva Fringe is the perfect way for these artists to showcase their talents to a wider audience.”

Mark Rigby, Chair of the Godiva Fringe Committee added:

“We are delighted to have been able to collaborate with CV One to produce the Fringe event and are really looking forward to the lineup. We have programmed a diverse selection of genres to suit a variety of musical tastes. All of us on the Fringe Committee would like to extend our gratitude to CV One for taking our comments on board and helping us to facilitate what will hopefully become a regular fixture for the Godiva Festival.”

Artists performing Godiva Fringe 2010 include: 91db / The Ripps / Charles Dexter Ward and The Imagineers / Reubens Cane / The Bellows/Wes Finch (Dirty Band) / Shockparade / The Kirkland Turn / Si Hayden / Simon Davies / Jack Blackman / Kristy Gallacher / Matt Lakey and the Whatever / Mothers Jam.

The Fringe event will take place from 5pm – 1am on Friday the 2nd of July, visit the Fringe page for full details

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Final Four Unsigned Winners

Congratulations to our top 4 winners of the Godiva Unsigned competition 2010. On Sunday 6th June, the 8 finalists took part in a battle of the bands competition, for a chance to play the Saturday night main stage of Godiva Festival 2010.

In first place was Idle Playthings, scooping the top spot with a momentous amount of votes from judges, online and public attendees. In second was Tempting Rosie, followed by OST in third and Black Fangs in fourth.

With such diverse, individual and talented acts taking part in this years competition, the Saturday night is now complete. The four bands will now kick start the nights live entertainment at War Memorial Park Coventry, alongside headliners ASH, Badly Drawn Boy and Senser to name but a few.

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