Celebr8.2 Prog Festival

This year saw the second running of the celebr8 festival (hence the .2) held at the Hippodrome in Kingston Upon Thames.  You can view my photos from last years event HERE and HERE .

This year saw another excellent lineup up of acts over two days.

First up was IO Earth, this was there first gig with new singer Linda Odinsen:

You can see more of my photos of IO Earth HERE.

Next up was Mark Spencer on the acoustic stage:

You see more of my Mark Spencer set HERE .

Next up on the main stage were District 97 who were making their UK concert debut:

See more of my photos of District 97 HERE .

Next on the main stage were Frost* :

See more of my Frost* photos HERE .

Headlining the festival on Saturday were Threshold:

See more of my Threshold photos HERE.

First up on day 2 of Celebr8.2 was Matt Stevens:

See more photos of Matt HERE.

First on the main stage on Sunday was Alan Reed and the daughters of expediency:

Monique Van Der Kolk from Harvest joined Alan and band for the song “Kingdom of the blind”

Playing drums for Alan was DeeExpus and Touchstone drummer Hen Rogers

See more photos of Alan and band HERE.

Next on the main stage were Harvest another band making their UK debut at Celebr8.2:

See more of my photos of Harvest HERE.

Next on the acoustic stage was Simon Godfrey, joined by Robert Ramsay and Phil the duck!

See more photos of Simon’s set HERE.

Next on the main stage were Mystery featuring former Yes singer Benoit David:

See more photos of Mystery HERE.

The final band of the festival was Arena:

You can see more photos of Arena HERE.

Hi hoped you enjoyed these photos from Celebr8.2.  If you were at the festival but didn’t pick one up or you weren’t aren’t at the festival I highly recommend getting the Limited Edition Celebr8.2 official programme.

Full colour includes 2 CD’s of rare/unreleased tracks from the bands who appeared at Celebr8.2. £10 goes to cover the costs of the programme and will help to secure the return of Celebr8 next year.

It’s available from The Merch Desk

Buy the Celebr8.2 programme from the merch desk

22 May This entry was published on May 22, 2013 at 8:56 pm. It’s filed under Concert photography and tagged Alan Reed, Arena, Benoit David, Clive Nolan, Concert photography, Craig Blundell, Damian Wilson, District 97, Frost*, Harvest, Henry Rogers, IO Earth, Jem Godfrey, John Jowitt, John Mitchell, Kingston Upon Thames, Leslie Hunt, Linda Odinsen, live music, Mark Spencer, Matt Stevens, Michel St-Pere, Mick Pointer, Monique Van Der Kolk, Mystery, Nathan King, Paul Manzi, progressive rock, Robert Ramsay, Shineback, Simon Godfrey, The House of Progression, the merch desk, Threshold, Tinyfish. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.