Two Thousand Trees Festival

Two Thousand Trees Festival
Two Thousand Trees Festival
	Entrance to the 2008 festival
Genre	Punk rock, alternative rock, electronic, comedy
Location(s)	Upcote Farm, Withington
Years active	2007–present
Website	www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk

2000trees festival is an independent music festival held from Wednesday to Sunday on the second week of July at Upcote Farm, Withington, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.^[1] It offers a diverse selection of more than 120 acts across five stages, plus comedy, a large selection of food traders, themed bars and a headphone disco on the two main stages every night of the festival. It also won the Grass Roots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards 2010, 2013 and 2017^[2] and the Best Medium-Sized UK Festival in 2018.^[3]

2000trees was started by six friends in 2007.^[4] The festival has performances across a number of stages which have evolved over the years, including: Main Stage, The Cave (second stage), The Axiom (formerly The Leaf Lounge), The Neu (formerly The Croft and The Greenhouse) plus a small acoustic stage in The Forest area.^[5]

Past acts[edit]

2007[edit]

InMe
Frank Turner
Brian James
Brigade
The Voom Blooms
Devil Sold His Soul
Goldrush
Piney Gir
Hesters Way

2008[edit]

Camp site at the 2008 festival

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Art Brut
Frank Turner
The King Blues
The Duke Spirit
These New Puritans
Future of the Left
Slaves to Gravity
The Ghost of a Thousand
In Case of Fire
Tubelord

2009[edit]

British Sea Power
Fightstar
Red Light Company
The King Blues
Amplifier
Dananananaykroyd
Sucioperro
Wild Beasts
Rolo Tomassi
Attack! Attack!
The Chapman Family
SixNationState
Godsized

2010[edit]

The Subways
Frank Turner
Twin Atlantic
Bombay Bicycle Club
65daysofstatic
Metronomy
Pulled Apart By Horses
Future of the Left
The Xcerts
Three Trapped Tigers
Johnny Flynn
Errors
Sonic Boom Six
Vessels
And So I Watch You From Afar
Tubelord
A Genuine Freakshow
Left Side Brain

2011[edit]

Frightened Rabbit
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
The King Blues
Sucioperro
Los Campesinos!
Japanese Voyeurs
Mojo Fury
Twin Atlantic
Tellison
Devil Sold His Soul
Amplifier
Maybeshewill
And So I Watch You From Afar
Ellen and the Escapades
The Twilight Sad
Exit Ten
Malefice
Your Demise
Islet

2012[edit]

Dry the River
Lucy Rose
Guillemots
Summer Camp
65daysofstatic
Gallows
Pulled Apart By Horses
Rolo Tomassi
Tellison
Turbowolf
Dog Is Dead
Sharks
The Xcerts
VerseChorusVerse
Johnny Foreigner
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Max Raptor
Spy Catcher
Hundred Reasons

2013[edit]

Frank Turner
Mystery Jets
Funeral for a Friend
Stornoway
Future of the Left
Nine Black Alps
InMe
We Are the Ocean
And So I Watch You From Afar
King Charles
Fighting With Wire
Crowns
Gnarwolves
Fight Like Apes
GFM
Maybeshewill

2014[edit]

Band Of Skulls
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
Arcane Roots
Kids in Glass Houses
Frightened Rabbit
The Blackout
The Bronx
Blood Red Shoes
Maybeshewill
VerseChorusVerse
Canterbury
Johnny Foreigner
Jamie Lenman
Three Trapped Tigers
Itch
Heart in Hand
GFM
Public Service Broadcasting
Wolf Alice
Slaves
CCTV Allstars

2015[edit]

Alkaline Trio
Deaf Havana
Idlewild
The Xcerts
The Subways
We Are The Ocean
Pulled Apart By Horses
Nothing But Thieves
And So I Watch You From Afar
The Skints
Mclusky
Future of the Left
Defeater
Turbowolf
Kerbdog
Young Guns
GFM
Creeper
Milk Teeth

2016[edit]

Refused
Twin Atlantic
Mallory Knox
Neck Deep
While She Sleeps
The Bronx
Basement
The King Blues
Lonely the Brave
Moose Blood
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Counterfeit
Arcane Roots
GFM
Martha Phillips
The Xcerts
Dinosaur Pile Up
Creeper
The Smith Street Band
Max Raptor

2017[edit]

Mallory Knox
Pulled Apart By Horses
Young Guns
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Feed The Rhino
Roam (band)
Muncie Girls
blackfoxxes
Tigercub
Puppy
Straight Lines
Ducking Punches
Grumble Bee
Bellevue Days
Jonah Matranga
Adam Carpenter
Kamikaze Girls
Nothing But Thieves
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
The Wonder Years
Jamie Lenman
Skinny Lister
Will Varley
Black Peaks (band)
Queen Kwong
Brutus
Steven Battelle
Vukovi
De Staat
Tall Ships
Decade
Wallflower
wars
Greywind
Strange Bones
Making Monsters
Ducking Punches
SHVPES
Away Days
Milestones
Weirds
Personal Best
Cassells
Louise Distras
The St. Pierre Snake Invasion
Polary
Slaves
Lower Than Atlantis
The Front Bottoms
The Menzingers
Honey Blood
Beach Slang
Gnarwolves
Kevin Devine
Rolo Tomassi
Area 11
The One Hundred
Sløtface
The Hyena Kill
Get Inuit
Acres
Peaness
MOSES
Petrol Girls
GFM
Big Spring
Kamikaze Girls
Bad Sign
Doe
Fizzy Blood
Giants
Apologies, I Have None
Soeur

2018[edit]

And So I Watch You From Afar
Andy Merritt
Arcane Roots
Asylums
At the Drive-in
Avalanche Party
Bad Sign
Basement
Beans on Toast
Ben Marwood
Bitch Falcon
Black Foxxes
Black Futures
Black Honey
Black Peaks
Blood Command
Blood Red Shoes
Bloody Knees
Boston Manor
Brutus
Bryde
Caleb Harris
Chapter and Verse
Chloe Glover
Conjurer
Courage My Love
COVE
Crazy Arm
Creeper
Dave McPherson (INME)
Demob Happy
Dottie
Dream State
Dream Wife
Elijah Miller
Enter Shikari
Fangclub
Fatherson
Forever Cult
Frauds
Funeral Shakes
Gallops
Gender Roles
GFM
Gloo
Gold Key
GroundCulture
Grumble Bee
Haggard Cat
Hell is for Heroes
Hellions
Ho99o9
Holding Absence
Holiday Oscar
Hush Mozey
Imperial Leisure
InTechnicolour
Jack Louis Cooper
James Humphries
Jamie Lenman
Jonah Matranga
Jordan Grant
Karim
La Lune
Lady Bird
Louise Distras
Luke Marshall Black
Luke Rainsford
Luvia
Mallory Knox
Mantra
Marius Bear
Marmozets
Mauwe
Meat Wave
Moose Blood
Muskets
My Vitriol
Nelson Can
Nervus
No Violet
Nova Twins
Pace
Palm Reader
PD Liddle
Phoxjaw
PINS
Press to Meco
Queen Kwong
Raging Speedhorn
Reigning Days
Saint Leonard's Horses
Sean McGowan
Shvpes
Sick Joy
SikTh
Skinny Lister
Sløtface
Soeur
Sun Arcana
Swedish Death Candy
The Dirty Nil
The Kenneths
The Xcerts
Thrill Collins
Touche Amore
Turbowolf
Turnstile
Twin Atlantic
Undead Raisins
Vodun
Vukovi
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Will Varley
Woes

2019[edit]

Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls
You Me At Six
While She Sleeps
Every Time I Die
Frank Iero and the Future Violents
Skinny Lister
Mongol Horde
Therapy?
Jamie Lenman
Rolo Tomassi
Estrons
Indoor Pets
Comeback Kid
DANGERFACE
Cavetown
Hands Like Houses
Milk Teeth
Grace Petrie
Martha
Puppy
Muncie Girls
Single Mothers
Møl
Higher Power
Gouge Away
Loathe
GFM
Nervus
Orchards
Life
Petrol Girls
St Pierre Snake Invasion
Wstr
Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun
Crazy Arm
Sean McGowan
Imperial Leisure
Oxygen Thief
Johnny Lloyd
Brand New Friend
Deux Furieuses
Groundculture
The Drew Thompson Foundation
Heavy Lungs
Indigo Lo
Lice
Spielbergs
Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam
Phoxjaw
Frauds
False Advertising

2020[edit]

2000trees was cancelled due to COVID-19.^[6]

2021[edit]

2000trees was cancelled for the second consecutive year due to complications relating to COVID-19, including international travel restrictions preventing acts from entering the United Kingdom, and the government not providing insurance to the live events industry in the event the festival would need to be cancelled.^[7]

References[edit]

^ "2000trees 2021". Eventbrite. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
^ "UK Festival Awards 2010: winners in full". Virtual Festivals. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
^ "2018 WINNERS". UK Festival Awards. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
^ "ARCHIVE FOR 2013". Two Thousand Trees Festival. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
^ "2000 Trees Music Festival". Bolt Hole Retreats. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
^ Peacock, Tim (29 April 2020). "NEWS: 2000 Trees Festival 2020 has been cancelled; tickets valid for 2021!". Dead Press. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
^ "2000trees Festival postponed to 2022 due to travel concerns and lack of COVID cancellation insurance". NME. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.

External links[edit]

[2000trees_festival_website-1] "2000trees 2021". Eventbrite. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.

[festivalawardwin-2] "UK Festival Awards 2010: winners in full". Virtual Festivals. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2020.

[3] "2018 WINNERS". UK Festival Awards. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2020.

[4] "ARCHIVE FOR 2013". Two Thousand Trees Festival. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2020.

[5] "2000 Trees Music Festival". Bolt Hole Retreats. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.

[6] Peacock, Tim (29 April 2020). "NEWS: 2000 Trees Festival 2020 has been cancelled; tickets valid for 2021!". Dead Press. Retrieved 29 April 2021.

[7] "2000trees Festival postponed to 2022 due to travel concerns and lack of COVID cancellation insurance". NME. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.

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