Rise/ Uprise

ShaunG · July 2010

Earlier this year I'm sure I read that the Rise Festival was to be reinstated. Today was to be the date. I've seen and heard nothing at all and clearly it isn't today. Did i just get the wrong end of a stick or is some version of Rise still alive?

graeme · July 2010

<a href="http://www.uprise.org.uk/UpRise/Home.html">looks like they're keeping the money raised so far and trying to put it on next year</a>

badkitteh · July 2010

There are now flyers posted around the park stating that Uprise will be taking place October 3rd, yet the website/twitter/myspace/facebook pages mention nothing about the new date or lineup.

miss annie · September 2010

A little bird tells me that the license has now been granted for Rise festival on October 3rd.

Edit:
That should be Uprise of course but I'm not writing it in capital letters as I don't like to shout.

andy · September 2010

Uprise, this weekend. <http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/content/islington/gazette/news/story.aspx?brand=ISLGOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsislg&itemid=WeED28 Sep 2010 12:12:46:790>

andy · September 2010

And a website: <http://uprise.org.uk/>;

ADGS · September 2010

Rise usually had a line-up which was brilliantly constructed to draw in people of different communities and colours and get them all singing along to music that they maybe didn't realise they might like. A line-up good enough that, in spite of the hectoring links by Stop the War Coalition arses and other such bores and useful idiots, I would generally go along. This one...not so much.

andy · September 2010

True, but Rise had a budget of over [half a million quid](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8051328.stm), whereas this one is being done for ten quid and six bags of haribo starmix.

NoOne · September 2010

Does anyone know if you can take dogs in? I can't see anything that says you can't but I don't want to walk the pooch down there and not be allowed in.

andy · September 2010

Normally there are bits of the park still open for dogs. Even RATM didn't close the whole park.

ADGS · September 2010

Oh, I appreciate they weren't going to get international acts or anything under the new shoestring approach, but they could still have had a bit more variety. You don't necessarily need money to get good acts from a bunch of different scenes. This line-up is really homogenous; it looks like a bank holiday alldayer at Cargo rather than a serious stab at variety.

leiba1 · September 2010

3rd Oct is also the Dogs Trust 'Waggy Walks' day in Finsbury Park. Who's responsible for the double booking?

Ali · October 2010

I wonder how much Uprise will be affected by the tube strike on Sunday

JaneDoe · October 2010

Did anyone go? They were unlucky with the weather.

Arkady · October 2010

I turned up after the rain stopped. Looked like there was only a few hundred people there. Some good tunes though. Slightly pony though - the drinks choice was Carlsberg or Strongbow from a can...

ADGS · October 2010

Compared to yesterday's torrential rain, today was positively balmy...

Memon74 · October 2010

I want my £1 back.

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