Clare 05
Listen to the bands
CWMF management meetings
Website News
Friends of the Festival
Festival facilities
Where is it - how to get there.
What to bring
Terms and conditions.
Management Minutes
Festival accounts
Newsletter
Camping
Clare 05
Photos from the Clare 05 festival can be accessed from the Past
Festivals page.
We also have a CD of a selection of tracks
recorded at the 2005 festival on sale at our Web Shop. click
here for details.
Listen to some of the previous festival
bands.
Our website downloads page has
some sound clips of bands who played at previous festivals, and
now also some of the 2005 bands. You will need the free Real Player
to hear them, but don't worry if you haven't got it, you can download
it from the same page. Among the bands featured are Otway, Ezio,
WorxFM, Jellyroll, Smouldering Sons, Robin Bibi, Outpatience and
Fuzzface and Eddie and the Hotrods.
CWMF
management meetings
CWMF meetings are held monthly on Tuesdays at The Bell public
house in Clare. Anyone may attend if they wish, and we will also
publish the Minutes on
the website.
If you have any suggestions on how we can improve the festival,
or any feedback on the festival, please email them to
feedback@clare-music-festival.co.uk
Website
We have added more features to the festival website over the
winter, including streaming audio, music downloads, and secure online
credit card transactions.
If you have any comments or suggestions, or have links or
information you feel we may like to include on the site please email
webmaster@clare-music-festival.co.uk
Camping
At present the festival has no official camping facilities, and this is
something we would really like to redress. Rest assured the lack of
these facilities in no way reflects a reluctance on our part to provide
them. It is purely the fact that the lack of official local campsites,
and the official hurdles we would have to jump to provide our own, make
this a truly difficult task.
However, we have not given up on this, and the subject is high on the
agenda for next year.
Friends of the
Festival
The Festival Management Team consists purely of volunteers
who organise and coordinate all aspects of the festival within the
guidelines we have set ourselves with our mission
statement.
If you think you could help in any way, we would really
like to hear from you. It could be something as seemingly trivial as
putting up a few posters in your area, to supplying your own professional
skills such as design, electrician, plumber, media, advertising, etc. or
approaching your employers for sponsorship, fund raising or ticket sales.
During the week of the festival itself, we rely heavily on the help
provided by friends, family and local people in setting up, running and
clearing down of the festival site.
We are constantly in need of help in this task, however
large or small. To put things in perspective:
It takes around 15 people to work the bar (3 hours each),
10 people to work the gate, (2 hours each).
20 people the day before to set up the site (4 hours each),
20 people the day after to take down (4 hours each),
Other tasks include putting up and taking down signs, managing car
parking, catering for sponsors and bands, stage management, stage
dressing, to name a few.
One of our biggest, but possibly least obvious problems is coordinating
all these helpers, and having firm commitments from helpers as to who is
going to turn up, to do what, and when. If you would like to help us in
any way, however small, please contact us at support@clare-music-festival.co.uk
We would love to hear from you.
Festival facilities
On the Station Road entrance, there is a meeting point comprising a Police HQ cabin and a
there is a First Aid point in the arena. We have a selection of food stalls sited around the arena as well as a bar serving alcohol and soft drinks during licensed hours. You are permitted to bring food for personal consumption into the arena area as well as soft drinks. They must however, be in collapsible containers. Please note no glass is permitted in the arena.
There is a public telephone a minutes walk from the Festival entrance as unfortunately we have no telephones on site. In an
emergency, contact the Police at their headquarters near the main gate, or one
of the uniformed security staff on duty in the arena.
Toilets, including disabled toilets, are provided in the arena.
We are very fortunate to be allowed to use the Clare Castle Country Park for the Music Festival. It is
a National Heritage site, so please respect the use of it. Many species of animals and plants have their habitat in the grounds, so please do your best not to disrupt their surroundings.
Where is it - how to get there.
The venue is in Clare Castle Country Park, Clare, Suffolk.
Clare is on the A1092 between Haverhill and Sudbury.
From Bury St. Edmunds it takes 30 minutes by road. Follow the A134 to Sudbury and at Long Melford turn right onto the A1092 to Clare.
From Cambridge it is around 45 minutes driving time. Follow the A1307 to Haverhill and pass through towards
Colchester. 4 miles on, turn left onto the A1092 for Clare and Sudbury.
From Colchester and Ipswich takes 60 minutes. From both places follow the signs for Sudbury and Clare is signposted from there.
From the M11
Heading south towards London, exit at junction 10 [Duxford]. Follow the signs for Haverhill and then to Clare.
***Please note that there is no exit at junction 9 on the southbound side of the
M11.***
Heading north from London, exit at junction 9. Follow the signs for Haverhill and then to Clare.
From the A12, turn off at Chelmsford and follow the signs for Braintree and then Sudbury. Clare will be sign posted from there.
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map on multimap.com [in separate window]
What to bring
As the English weather is temperamental, we advise you to bring clothing for all kinds of weather. There is little natural shade within the arena so
bring sun hats and sun lotion just in case.
The Festival will last for up to eleven hours, please note we do not supply seating.
With the exception of guide dogs, no dogs will be allowed into the arena.
We reserve the right to refuse entry.
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