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FIREFEST Meet and Greet Friday Oct 24th

Thanks to everybody who mailed asking for tickets. Over 500 applications were received but as you are aware only the first 100 were guaranteed tickets due to the smallish nature of the venue. Successful applications have now been replied to and if you have not received a confirmation e mail with your reference number then we are sorry to say that you were not one of the first 100 applications received. Thanks once again for all your support.

Hope to see everybody on Saturday and Sunday Oct 25th and 26th.

Kieran ,Bruce and the Firefest team.

FIREFEST & FIREFEST DVD’S UPDATE

TICKETS

Now that we’ve got most of the big European festivals and major melodic rock tours out of the way it’s time to start our big push in the four months leading up to the festival. First of all thanks to everyone who’s bought their tickets already, it’s a big help and the early sales go a long way to ensuring that we can give you the best show we can. At this stage we’ve already sold around 50% of the tickets available for each day. Tickets are available directly from us here and are also now available through Rock City at www.rock-city.co.uk or from www.alt-tickets.co.uk

HOTELS

We can’t stress enough how important it is to get your hotel bookings in as soon as possible. Bryan Adams is playing in Nottingham on the same weekend so please note that hotel rooms are at a premium and it is advisable to book your rooms NOW if you intend to stay over for the whole Firefest weekend.

FRIDAY OCT 24TH

As many people will already be in Nottingham on Friday evening we have decided to have a little get together. We’re having a very informal meet and greet in Rock City - downstairs in the room on the right opposite The Rig. Almost all of the bands appearing who will actually be in the country at the time Tyketto, Pink Cream 69, Paul Laine, Danger Danger, Loud and Clear, Talon, Mitch Malloy - plus anyone else that can make it will be in attendance, so it's a great opportunity to bring along some stuff to get signed, take a photo or two and buy the Firefest crew a beer ...ha ha!! Due to the small size of the room we’ll have to limit this to 100 people only, so starting on immediately, the first 100 people to Email us. will get themselves a free pass. Please note that applications are limited to 2 per person and we need your name and address. We will have some nice background music and a few band members have mentioned that they might bring guitars, so you never know what might happen!

So if you have nothing to do between 8.30 and 10.30pm on Friday Oct 24 .......... now you have! Please also note the email address for applications is firefest@hotmail.com and you must state MEET AND GREET in the subject line. Remember, it’s 100 people only and it's strictly on a first come-first served basis.

FIREFEST DVD’s

The Valentine DVD has been completed and it’s a limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide (500 NTSC/500 PAL). This is a DVD/CD Collectors Edition and no single disc version will be made available. It contains the full set from last year’s Firefest and also has a bonus of the only other Valentine/Open Skyz live footage ever filmed. Open Skyz ‘Live at The Mirage’ was recorded in Minneapolis in March 1994 when the band supported Mr Big, and contains one previously unrecorded track called 'Soul Salvation'. It was shot on the in-house recording system and is a very high quality bootleg. A preview of the DVD is available here (Press the play button ...)

Pre-orders will be accepted from July 2nd, and please allow 28 days for delivery.

The FM DVD is also finished and a preview clip will be available here very shortly. Once again it’s a limited Collectors Edition of 1500 copies worldwide. Please note that this DVD will only be available in PAL Region-free (0) format only. More details will be available soon, as well as the Press Accreditation details.

Thank you for your support and we hope to see you all in October.

Kieran, Bruce and the Firefest team.

END OF UPDATE

UPDATE

1st May 2008

2 day tickets for both the Saturday and Sunday are now at the full price of £98 (£49 for each day)

Payment details and Paypal link can be found on the ticket page.

Kieran, Bruce and the Firefest team

UPDATE

24th April 2008

Tickets are selling very well for Firefest 5, and we just want to remind everyone that the discounted weekend ticket price (£90) is only available up until April 30th, after which price reverts to £49 each day. Payment details and Paypal link can be found on the ticket page.

Kieran, Bruce and the Firefest team

UPDATE

1st April 2008

All 95 boxes of Harem Scarem DVDs finally arrived in Ireland this Saturday (March 29th) and all orders have now been dispatched. Sorry again for the delay, which was out of our hands.

Kieran, Bruce and the Firefest team

PRESS RELEASE

22nd March 2008 - Regarding the Harem Scarem DVD

Firstly, let us apologise for the slight delay, this was caused firstly by a last minute alteration to the original artwork, which had to be resized to suit the collectors edition packaging. This was very much a last minute change as it was only when it reached the printing plant that somebody twigged it (despite us submitting the artwork some weeks previously!).That set us back a few days as the covers and booklets had to be left to dry before the discs were placed inside, and then, just for good measure the recent storms througout Europe meant that our shipment sat in a warehouse for three days waiting for the storm to break so it could be shipped, and when it did finally ship, it was caught up in a backlog of freight and is going to take "5 to 7 working days" to arrive.

The DVDs are in transit right now (sent out Wednesday afternoon) and we are expecting them around Wednesday 26th. As soon as we do they will be turned around within a day and mailed out immediately. The empty shipping packages are stamped and addressed just waiting for us to pop the dvd in and drop them off in the post office. Apologies for the delay, but despite our best efforts to have the DVDs out in the promised timeframe, the weather and a lazy artwork department at the duplication company conspired against us. THAT won't happen again!!!!

Kieran, Bruce and the Firefest team



Updated 22nd MARCH 2008 - FIREFEST 5 DETAILS

Updated 13th FEBRUARY 2008 - HAREM SCAREM DVD Release

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