Rootsville Festival

Yes people, Rootsville Festival will not be stopped by Rain, the event has marquees ready to go, there will be no mud as the area is all classic concrete, some tarmac but mostly paving or wooden decking. You won’t need special footwear, there won’t be mud to worry about and you won’t need to worry about flooding, the Festival site is on higher ground. The Festival is going to be a lot of fun and you are all invited. Rain or no rain, the Rootsville Festival is full steam ahead.

There’s been a lot of preparation going on this end and you’ll see it all on Saturday. But just when you thought the rain and the floods couldn’t make it more complicated for Kent (His house got flooded and he’s been wading around knee deep in water trying to put the finishing touches to the event organisation for the Festival)…..things have now got really weird. Hello Magazine are rumoured to be coming to Rootsville Festival. Yes, thats right, Hello Magazine. Here’s a message just in from our man John Mostyn to you all:

This lovely lot are coming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMoKqFiJvRwThey are from here:
http://www.godsgoldenacre.org.uk/

A real island of hope in a sea of despair.

They are flying in on Friday morning from Kwa Zulu-Natal, Friday night they are performing at the SA embassy in London introduced by some fella called Jude Law. Sounds flash but it’s gonna be stuffy and lots of standing around for our visitors.

Point is when they arrive with us on Saturday afternoon we really want to make them feel properly welcome in the UK in a way only a chilled, funky Birmingham crowd can do. In return they are going to give us a special selection of their favourite songs and dances from Saturday night back home.

Kent has arranged for them to play under one of the massive arches by the Custard Factory on GibB St. so lots of room to get out of the rain. Please come and welcome them.
We are filming them for a DVD release which will go around the world and we want to show the world that we are not phased by a bit of water - we are British, it’s what we do!

Before they hit the stage we have tremendous entertainment from Steve Gibbons, Chrissy van Dyke, Soweto Kinch, The Birmingham Community Gospel Choir, many other fine folk AND IT’S ALL FREE!

We will also have a few words from the remarkable Heather Reynolds who set up God’s Golden Acre and bizarrely I’ve just heard that Hello Magazine have made an offer for exclusive pictures of the tour so maybe we’ll all be in Hello so put your best mac on!

Now for Sunday another cunning plan - get out of the rain by going underground. Have a look here, it looks fab:
http://fiercetv.co.uk/index.php?controller=event&mm_action=view&id=136
Cool eh!
So see you under the arches and down the tunnels.
Please pass this on,
Best to All,
John