Rise/ Uprise

ShaunG

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

<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

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

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

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&gt;

andy

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

ADGS

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

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

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

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

ADGS

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

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

Ali

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

JaneDoe

Did anyone go? They were unlucky with the weather.

Arkady

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

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

Memon74

I want my £1 back.