What's going on and where ?
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After an incredible season so far and before the fires of Glastonbury have cooled off Arcadia are really looking forward to their first appearance on the island to hot things up. They will be creating a flame installation in the main festival area with more finely crafted scrap heap madness. Expect smoking trees and flame balls shooting into the sky in time to music!
The Play People
The Play People have many artists and performers but the two founders are Michael Bell and Joanna Taylor.
Mike is from the Isle of Man where as Jo was brought up England way. They met on the 31st of December 2007. At a festival in New Zealand.
Previously they had both been travelling for quite a few years, Jo getting by from teaching Yoga and doing Massage, Mike from playing music and doing circusy stuff.
As Mike had been performing and doing this stuff on the Island for a couple of years all it took was Jo's way with words (she used to be a journalist) to come up with The Play People.
Our popular circus workshops can run from 30 minutes to day long sessions. Your children will get to learn all the circus arts; Including Hula Hooping, Poi, Juggling, Balancing, Plate Spinning and Diablo. On the longer workshops they will learn safely the art of clowning, slapstick and comedy.
They will be challenged in a positive, safe environment to learn new skills and find new aspects of themselves. With the outcome hopefully of them carrying on with some of the circus skills as they are widely known to help improve the mind and boost confidence.
"The Play People were a positive influence on all the kids that took part in the circus workshop. They came away excited and with few new skills. They made my son Bens day special" Beth (Happy Mom)
Headline acts announced at Mannifest 2010
With the buzz of another classic Glastonbury still in their ears, a team from the Island arrive back today Monday having spent an enjoyable weekend sourcing further acts to complement an already bulging bevvy of talent for the grass roots festival that is MANNIFEST . Bourne from the passionate vision of originator Richard Powell, the festival has grown enthusiastically from its incarnation last summer.
Now based in the spacious fields of Glenlough Glen Vine, this years line up reflects a mature grading of UK talent but more importantly local musicians for which the Island has a very respectable scene.
On board and very much established across Europe is the Chai Walla brand bringing a wealth of aspiring sometimes eclectic but always entertaining acts from their famed roster.Already confirmed are The Gentlemans Dub Club,Riddim Killa and Skitz from the UK and hugely respected local record company and meister re-mixers Ballagroove will be showcasing specially written soundtracks at the Rotten Planet Stage. WiManx are sponsoring the Main Stage with a host of local musicians and bands spread over the 3 days it takes place 6/7/8 August.
Fridays Main Headliner has just been confirmed as maverick singer/songwriter DAVID FORD who will perform with a full band. Widely acclaimed and making a huge impression on the American market DF has made MANNIFEST the only other UK festival apart from Latitude. He arrived as fresh as anyone can be after a support tour to funkster ALABAMA 3.Other artists include Planes over Paris, Uber Room, Yashin and Fletcher Christian Mutiny. A passionately loud night will ensure!
The remit for this festival is simple, to bring together a field full of good people who are all there for a good vibe on and off stage.
Saturday will also showcase a generous helping of local bands including Grambo, Vex Mama,Abrasive Melody aswell as Soviet and swound! Headliner will be an especially reformed local Pink Floyd tribute PIGS ON THE WING. The classic line up includes several band members flown in for the show.
Sunday will be very much a chilled affair with the promise of some special guests to be revealed nearer the time. Already confirmed are The Very Very Bad Men, Christine Collister, Truman Falls and Anna Goldsmith so a wealth of local talent once more.
Stay tuned to the official site www.mannifestlive.com and for band confirmations as they happen at www.triskelpromo.com
Although still in its infancy, Mannifest is in no hurry to grow too big too quickly. If the same good folk turn up every year it will mean something. In the future they hope to build up a reputation that makes their festival synonymous with great new music and a chilled relaxed experience of a family festival.
The Dirty Room
A new space for Mannifest 2010 would like to introduce itself to all of you beautiful, happy, lovely, lucky people who are a part of Mannifest 2010. Why “The Dirty Room!” I hear you ask???
Boodle's is the second London gentlemen's club, founded in 1762 at 49-51 Pall Mall, London by Lord Shelburne the future Marquess of Lansdowne and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the club came to be known after the name of its head waiter Edward Boodle.
Notable members
* Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond
* David Hume, philosopher
* David Niven, actor
* John Profumo, politician and charity worker
* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, soldier and Prime Minister
* Sir Winston Churchill
Members were required to wear formal attire for dinner. Servants adhered to a strict dress code as well and had to wear knee-britches. If members failed to wear appropriate dinner attire, they were required to take their meal in the less formal dining room called The Dirty Room!
So we would like to invite you to a 1930’s English Gentleman’s Club, for those of you who enjoy dressing up and role play, flappers, dappers and burlesque dancers is our theme and there will be gifts and prizes for the best fancy dress outfits.
For your entertainment The Dirty Room! will have a wide range of hand picked top quality disk jockeys from around the world playing the latest and best in music styles ranging from jazz and reggae to electro swing, breaks, drum and bass, dub-step, tech house and more…
Each of our DJ’s will be performing a two hour DJ set so that they have time to take you on an amazing journey of sound.
For a list of the lineup visit The Dirty Room in the 2010 Artists section of the website
Wi-Manx to sponsor Mannifest music festvial
Wi-Manx has been announced as the first headline sponsor of the Mannifest Festival, which takes place at Glen Lough on the Isle of Man on the 6th,7th,8th August.
The Internet, voice & data orientated solutions provider has agreed an initial one-year deal with Mannifest. Gary Shilling, Sales Manager of Wi-Manx, said: "Our presence at Mannifest will really help us reach out to new audiences and engage local customers in a way we have not done before. The Isle of Man population needs events like Mannifest and we thought it an ideal opportunity to get involved with."
Wi-Manx will be sponsoring the stage and hospitality area and providing a wi-fi hotspot area at the festival site. Barry Fearon, promoter of Mannifest, said: "We are delighted to have Wi-Manx as a headline sponsor, they are an innovative and friendly company who are very well respected by the local community. They will not just sponsor Mannifest but get involved with many activities over the festival period which is something we'd like all of our sponsors to do." The festival, now in its second year, has the very special UK collective - Chai Wallahs headlining as well as a strong collective of local bands and musicians.
Early bird tickets are available via TicketLine.co.uk at £30 for the entire weekend and will be available until the allocation of tickets has been sold. Mannifest are holding an Easter warm up event at Amber on Friday 2nd April featuring live music and DJ's. All are welcome at the event.
