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WHITCHURCH FESTIVAL 2 - 4 August 2002

2002 was the fifth year I made it along to the Whitchurch Festival and, as usual, I was expectant of seeing and discovering some great bands. 2001 proved better in this respect that the previous year so my enthusiasm was whetted. A good proportion of the bands on offer were unknown to me, pretty much everything other thanh the Friday evening bill were bands I'd never seen live. I was familiar with some Primitive Instinct and Sphere3 from last year and Francis Dunnery from three of his earlier albums.

The bill ran like this - headliner at the bottom of the list (click on a band for a review):
WHITCHURCH FESTIVAL 2002 RUNNING ORDER
Saturday 3 August 2002 (overview) (Afternoon)
One Iota
Keith Bell & ???
John Mitchell
Haze

Sunday 4 August 2002(overview) (Afternoon)
Rolf
Keith Bell
Damian Wilson
Treebeard

Friday 2 August 2002 (overview)
(Evening)

Keith Bell (2 songs)

Galahad
Martin Orford & Gary Chandler
Jump
Saturday 3 August 2002 (Evening)
Primitive Instinct
John Wayne (I returned just in time for the final song)

Francis Dunnery and the Grass Virgins

Sunday 4 August 2002 (Evening)
Sphere3 (Sphere cubed)
Henry Fool
Focus

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For another view of proceedings check out what Danny Mayo or Simon and Marisa wrote respectively for The Hairless Herald and New Horizons.

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