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Teenage Kicks

Release Date: 19/06/2007

The fourth ‘Teenage Kicks’ festival will be held in the Quarry in Shrewsbury on the 30th of June 2007 between 12:00 midday and 7.00pm.  Entry is Free.

Teenage Kicks

Organised by Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council’s Community Regeneration Team, in partnership with the Youth Service, Belmont Arts and New Roots, Connexions, Through the Doorway to Healthy Living and other agencies. This free festival will be showcasing some of Shropshire’s best local musical talent as well as providing other exciting activities.

In previous years the festival has been well received with audience numbersreaching the thousands. This year the event will include live music, DJs, media, dance, sport, games, health and drugs information, semi-permanent tattooing and much more.

As with the last three festivals there will be the ever-popular graffiti board, break dancing displays and bouncy castles.

The ‘Buzz’ will once again be taking part in the festival giving young musicians the opportunity to record their own demo. Groups interested in a slot on the ‘Buzz’  should arrive in plenty of time.

Teenage Kicks GraffitiOther activities will include a table top football tournament, football goal shoot competition, banner making, healthy food tasting sessions and treasure hunt, face painting and semi-permanent tattooing.

The Community Regeneration Team is keen to support young people in all kinds of entrepreneurial ventures and its aim has always been to show how young people contribute positively to the county. ‘Teenage Kicks’ is one of few venues that offers young people an opportunity to showcase their music.  Visit the Teenage Kicks MySpace webpage to listen to some of the bands and sign up as a friend and help make this years festival the best ever and work with us to make next years even better.

Performance Running Order

Artist Time
Apex 12:00
Colour Noise 12:25
Grace Deakin 12:50
Rednerv 13:15
Pont Robert Plant 13:30
Someone Else Change the Time 13:45
Gemma Hindmarch 14:05
Vivian Blake 14:30
Chocolate Rubber Ducks 14:55
Livi Gregory 15:20
Newfreesom 15:45
Oncoming Traffic 16:10
Meole Estate Singing Group 16:35
Lost At Sea 17:05
Livewire
17:40
OWND
18:15
10K Runner
18:45

  Teenage Kicks 07 vr3_1.pdf(Teenage Kicks Promotional Poster, 281 KB)

For more information on this subject, please contact:

Nicola Fisher, Community Development Officer
Tel. 01743 281141
email: nicola.fisher@shrewsbury.gov.uk

Media contact:

Jon King, Events and Media Officer.
Tel. 01743 281016
Author: hbenbow Date of last revision:  26 June 2007 Date of expiry:  none