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Here's a date for your diary this summer.

Cherry Coloured Pop and Cherryade Records Present...

GOING UP THE COUNTRY
Saturday 2nd June 2012
The Church House, Buxton Road, Congleton, Cheshire. CW12 2DY

Bands: 1pm - 10.30pm
Clubnight: 10.30pm - 2am



This is a one day event held in the beautiful grounds of the Church House pub and restaurant and currently the line up so far is Help Stamp Out Loneliness and A Fine Day For Sailing. Many more bands will be announced shortly for both the main stage and Acoustic tent.

DJs for the club night are Kev & Linda (Cherry Coloured Pop) and Jamie (Kissing Just For Practice).

There are camping spots available in the pubs grounds. (Edit: Camping is £10 per tent)

I hope many of you make the trip over for this, it's in aid of a fantastic charity (Christie's hospital in Manchester) and besides which, it'll be a right lovely day with some lovely bands and a lovely clubnight to dance at to round the evening off. It'll be a nice warm up for Indietracks which isn't a million miles away either.

Admission TBC. I've not been told what the admission is for this but I think it may be a nominal donation of some kind. (Edit: Admission: £10 advance, £13 on the day & Free for Under 12 popkids)

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This sounds ace!

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"The claim I want to make is that this historical moment, the one we're living in now, is the best not the worst, the most not the least appropriate moment to bring back Marx."

I'll be there. It's the closest I'm ever likely to come to being at a popshow in Crewe. Just 12 miles from my hometown!

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The Give It Ups / Fall Out Make Up

In off the red!

Anyway, an update...

New bands announced (ooh, I feel like the guy who runs Primavera!):

POCKETBOOKS
THE FIREWORKS
A LITTLE ORCHESTRA

I've also some news on the camping. It's £5 per person. I think kids will be free but I'll confirm that.

The GUTC twitter account has now been set up so please start following. @WeAreGUTC



Yeah! Do you, Lisa and Ted fancy a trip over at all? Will be nice to get a little bit of an anorak gathering at this really fun day!

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I have absolutely no idea what that means.

And yes. Better still I'll be PLAYING in Congleton. Who knew?

My best friend's mum already promised to come. She has really big hair.

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The Give It Ups / Fall Out Make Up

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I am a little bit ashamed to have missed that, as a compulsive Partridge quoter. But I still don't know what it actually means...

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The Give It Ups / Fall Out Make Up

Is it perhaps the snooker version of "back of the net"? I also missed it though despite being a Partridge quoter....

Oooh, this does sound lovely, and £5 camping sounds brill. I think we'll deffo try and come.

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Superpower: Sausages

How many bands are playing, Jamie? We're both right up for this, anyway.

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"The claim I want to make is that this historical moment, the one we're living in now, is the best not the worst, the most not the least appropriate moment to bring back Marx."

Not sure, but there should be a few given it's on from 1pm right through til 10.30pm, with an acoustic marquee too.

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More details!

OK, the bands have now been finalised for GOING UP THE COUNTRY! I get more excited everytime I think about it now. It's going to be crazygood.

The bands that are playing are:

Help Stamp Out Loneliness
Pocketbooks
A Fine Day For Sailing
The Hobbes Fanclub
The Proctors
A Little Orchestra
The Fireworks
Golden Glow
Tiny Birds

PLUS
Totally Acoustic tent featuring acoustic sets from Pocketbooks, A Fine Day For Sailing, Gary Fulton, Emm Daniels and more.

PLUS
Indiepop disco in the pub after the bands have finished from 10.30pm until 1.30am with DJ's Kev & Linda (Cherry Coloured Pop) and Jamie (Kissing Just For Practice - The Belle & Sebastian Disco)

PLUS
Nice food, BBQ, Real Ales and stuff for the kids.

Phew!

Entry is as follows:
£10 advance tickets (Wegottickets.com - I'll post a link once I've got one)
FREE for popkids under 12!
£13 on the day
£10 camping (per tent) - This is optional.

Follow on Twitter @WeAreGUTC for other updates and stuff. The website (http://www.goingupthecountry.co.uk) doesn't work yet, but should be up and running this weekend.

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Such a good line up. Can't wait!

That poster makes me even more gutted that we weren't able to commit to playing. Bloody work commitments! Don't think I can justify making the trip down so close to indietracks either. Looks brilliant though.

Tempted. Mightily tempted.

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Underachievement as Art

Tickets are for sale from.... NOW!

Tickets here

£10 advance tickets and it's free for any under 12 popkids.

The capacity is 400 for the bands, acoustic tent and workshop, while the indiepop disco afterwards is 200. We've had a really, really great response on that Facebook and Twitter thing so do pick up advance tickets as soon as you can. Pretty sure this will sell out.

We've also had a half confirmation off a certain indiepop band who I'm sure tons of people like them here. They are waiting on word to be able to fit it in as they are touring around then so we'll keep them as a mystery until nearer the time. And no, it's not Razorlight.

And Pete, you should so come mate. We could probably be able to fit you in the acoustic tent

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Blimey.

Graced with the Wedding Present, Yuck, and The History of Apple Pie at last years, otherwise very disappointing, Friends of Mine festival and now this! Us Cheshire dwelling folk are being spoiled.

That's a rather good line-up! Wish I could play something like this. Nyargh.

Oooh, really...? Hello!

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oh god this is going to be so amazing. is this going to be the next indietracks contender? x

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