by Josh GrayLounge on the Farm is Kent's most well known, and newest festival. Created in 2006 and based at Merton Farm; the amount of visitors has steadily but greatly increased from a thousand in it's first year, to a modest five thousand in 2009.
This year however is coined to be bigger and better! Last year LotF introduced, "you say they play", this is a competition where the general public vote for which local acts who they wish to see play at the festival. Last year twelve bands won this opportunity and this year thirty-six lucky contestants have the chance to win! LotF continuously sticks to the fact that they only try to promote local acts and local produce at their festival whilst at the same time producing a mind-blowing spectacular weekend. This is probably one of the factors which has enabled them to win "Best UK festival 2009".
During the past 4 years some of the UK's most well known acts have made appearances on the main stage, featuring Super Furry Animals, The Noisettes, Ellie Goulding and the Mystery Jets to name a few. Although the acts aren't quite on par with larger festivals such as Reading and Leeds, Glastonbury, V Festival etc, it is slowly making a name for itself and perhaps it will only be a short time until it's one of the national festivals.
According to the founders, Lounge on the Farm was an idea initially created in 2004, when the founders first met in the center of Canterbury watching a band play in a flat bed lorry. They decided amongst themselves creating a festival that supports local bands would be a great thing to do, they exchanged numbers on 'the back of a pack of fags' and started work on what would be Kent's most successful music festival, and in six years time one of the most famous festivals in England
(Moving on to some swift promotion! My band Zephyrus has been placed up for nomination, so if you can vote for us here it would be fantastic, thanks!
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