Police take top billing in city hit by festival fever

South Wales Evening Post;  June 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......guitar- wielding monsters at the new Fflam Festival, the city is making its mark among...there to see the group play. "For the Fflam Festival, the demographic will vary. On the...to keep it as safe as possible. "The Fflam Festival will be the first time there has been...

Festival chiefs urged to give tidy promise

South Wales Evening Post;  May 9, 2007 ;     368 words ......music fans descend on the city for the Fflam festival. People living in Brynmill and Sketty...thoroughly cleaned up." Plans to bring the Fflam Festival featuring Manic Street Preachers to...community. "Whether we like it or not, the Fflam festival will go ahead," she said. "I'd ...

Festival had no cover from police

South Wales Evening Post;  July 6, 2007 ;     487 words ...Swansea's postponed Fflam Festival did not have any police cover...few weeks, we regret that the Fflam Festival has had to be postponed. "This...mean we can give everyone the Fflam Festival experience they deserve - bands...

Please give us a break

South Wales Evening Post;  July 16, 2007 ;     30 words ...For weeks now every day in the Post we get stories of Katherine Jenkins and the Fflam Festival. Give us a break please - we get enough repeats on the TV. Derek J. Morgan Woodcote, Killay, Swansea.

Fflam claim anger

South Wales Evening Post;  March 25, 2008 ;     317 words ......led the campaign against last year's Fflam Festival. Ann Davies, of Swansea Neighbourhood...successful Conservative campaign against the Fflam Festival last year". Mrs Davies said: "I think...even Conservatives get it wrong." The Fflam Festival planned for Singleton Park last ...

Britpop band in festival line-up

South Wales Evening Post;  June 26, 2007 ;     109 words ......Supergrass are the final big-name band to be added to the Fflam Festival bill. The Oxford-based band join Mercury award nominees...Placebo, Dirty Pretty Things, Cold War Kids, and Enter Shikari Fflam Festival organisers hope to make the event a regular fixture on the...

Organisers stall over fflam date

South Wales Evening Post;  July 18, 2007 ;     331 words ...Music fans promised a date for the rescheduled Fflam Festival have been let down once again. Organisers Straight...later this week. Festival boss John Marsh said: "The Fflam Festival is definitely going ahead. "We have already committed...

We are not being told

South Wales Evening Post;  May 18, 2007 ;     68 words ...I Would like to complain about the lack of information coming from the organisers of the Fflam Festival. The website hasn't been updated even though they said it would be. They haven't even updated it to say there is no camping. They...

Reasons to come - and to stay away!

South Wales Evening Post;  May 23, 2007 ;     211 words ......Theatre. Evening Post - Wales's biggest selling newspaper. The Fflam Festival - bringing musical kudos to the provinces. Cardiff - just...what to do when it rains? Drivers - park where they like. Fflam Festival - inviting hoards of rock junkies onto suburban streets...

Fflam on course for full house

South Wales Evening Post;  July 4, 2007 ;     353 words ...Tickets for next week's Fflam Festival are being snapped up in a late rush by music fans. Festival...in Cardiff, who can't believe how lucky we are to have the Fflam Festival. "And I know hoteliers who are happy Fflam is coming, especially...

Fflam Festival falls victim to weather.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  July 6, 2007 ;     73 words ......weather has forced organisers to postpone a Welsh music festival which the Manic Street Preachers were headlining. Swansea's Fflam Festival will not go ahead from Friday, July 13 until Sunday, July 15. Ticket-holders will soon be able to get full refunds from...

Park being over-used

South Wales Evening Post;  June 1, 2007 ;     239 words ......believe that objectors to the licence application are opposed solely to the Fflam Festival. They do not seem to realise that many people object not to the Fflam Festival itself, but to the sheer number of events proposed for Singleton Park...

Park gig protesters launch legal battle

South Wales Evening Post;  June 9, 2007 ;     358 words ......problems which the new 30,000 capacity rule used for the Fflam Festival will only increase. Campaigners faced off against the council...venue at all. They are very concerned about the forthcoming Fflam Festival and they have lodged an appeal to have the licence overturned...

High society

South Wales Evening Post;  June 22, 2007 ;     354 words ......Owain Ginsberg will add to the home- grown appeal of the Fflam Festival in a couple of weeks. He and the rest of The Heights will...not bad No. Not bad. July 2 Monkey Cafe, Swansea July 14 Fflam Festival, Swansea web links www.myspace.com/theheightsuk www.theheightsmusic...

Hitting the heights

South Wales Evening Post;  June 22, 2007 ;     53 words ...The broad Llanberis growl of Owain Ginsberg and his band The Heights will add to the home-grown appeal of the Fflam Festival in a couple of weeks' time. And they swing by the Monkey Cafe on Monday, July 2, in time for the release of their new...