Bristol Music Festival 2008
The first public consultation about the Bristol Music Festival 2008 has taken place. This is the festival designed to be a replacement for Ashton Court. They got a whole load of interested parties together and thought up some ideas. One of the first ones was to choose a name. Idea were thrown about such as “Bristival”, “Rave on Avon” and “Babberfest”… but they finally decided to stay with “Bristol Festival”. It isn’t the most imaginative but it is simple and, when you think about it, it just says what the festival is. I like they way they haven’t tried to be cute or witty with the name.
The website doesn’t report on the outcome of any other discussions but they did list the topics they taked about - ethos of the event, volunteering, sustainability, funding and costs and music.