A family entertainment tent will host quizzes, a Slaters Fairground, bingo and children's discos.Īlso on the programme will be dog shows, circus skills, fire shows and magicians. The main stage will host more than 18 bands over the weekend while an acoustic stage will feature the likes of Tom Dibb’s famous Live Lounge Stage. Now in its 12th year, the festival's three-day run - with Father's Day bang in the middle, on June 18 - will take place on its pastures site overlooking Alnwick Castle with 'non-stop entertainment' to include what it says is to be its best live music line-up to date, spread over four stages, with the likes of bands Reloaded, Discography and Big Red and The Grinners. The Mighty Dub became established in 2010, with the first festival held at Newcastle Racecourse but a spokeswoman said that, despite the good turn out there, the fact it could not accommodate dogs or BBQs "meant that the venue was a no-go in the VW scene." Its next venue was Druridge Bay Country Park in Northumberland then, as it grew, it moved to a larger field there before finally finding its home at Alnwick.Įxpect lots of VW vehicles too when Mighty Dub Fest will be back in Alnwick, Northumberland, this summer with music, camping and family entertainment (Image: PR) Read more: Guide to 2023's North East music festivals The 1972 VW Beetle, which sat on his drive for a year waiting for him to pass his test, then caught fire and burned out three years while it was being welded but by then his love for Volkswagen Campervans was born - as was the first festival, which he set up with another VW enthusiast from Newcastle. What's known as the VW festival initially took shape when its organiser bought his first car. Besides its highlight showcase of vehicles - from vintage Beetles and 1960s Splitty’s to the most modern T6s on the market - the festival celebrates live music, with a non-stop line-up which this time around will include The Beatles tribute band The Cavernites and New Jersey punk rock band The Scandals playing on the main stage. The annual VW blast, which started out as a small event in 1982 and grew into the Mighty Dub Fest, has made Alnwick its home, following a stint in Newcastle, and will run there from June 17-19. Altogether, if the style and culture had to be described in one phrase, it’d be “in your face.A festival ideal for people who love the outdoors, camping and Volkswagens will be making a return to Northumberland during this summer's Father's Day weekend with a line-up set to cater for just about everybody else too. The internet was also important, as MySpace was big with scene kids. Scene’s fashion was all about bright colors, big, layered hair, flashy eyeliner, neon colored clothing, and lots of jelly bracelets. Scene’s music taste was eclectic, ranging from traditionally emo bands to bands that tended more toward pop. Some bands that were prominent in scene culture were Breathe Carolina, Blood on the Dance Floor, brokeNCYDE, Cobra Starship, 3OH!3, My Chemical Romance, and Panic! At the Disco. It existed concurrently with the emo subculture, which often prompted comparisons of the two, especially since there was an overlap of bands and sometimes fashion styles between the two groups. The song’s lyrics talk about how the singer was “accused of being a scene kid.” The singer also makes reference to scene kids at the beginning of the song, along with other references relevant to that time period.Īs a subculture, scene was oriented around music and fashion. One of their early songs “The Kids” references the subculture. It’s possible that the band Hollywood Undead, who were enjoying success on MySpace at the time, may have helped make the term more popular. The subculture was mainly popular among teenagers, which is probably why scene kid stuck as a descriptor for scene enthusiasts. Scene kid likely became associated with the scene subculture in the mid-2000s, when the subculture began to flourish in the US. A scene might also include the physical venues for such activities. The hardcore scene would refer to a group of people who enjoy the hardcore genre of music and who might discuss it with one another. It’s the setting or milieu of a specific activity or group. In this context, a scene is a kind of community. Early usages of scene kid predate the scene subculture and appeared in reference to music genres, raves, and other activities around the late 1990s.
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