Hope this here email finds you well?

We’ve got a load of things to tell you about today so we’ve written you a newsletter – it’s a bit like reading one of those newspaper thingys but without the boring phone hacking / economy / z-list celebrity nonsense that passes for news these days.

So read on below for an update on how soon tickets are going to sell out, band news in the pipeline, how to get to the festival, camping in style (including how you can win yourself the use of a free yurt), the fancy dress theme and recent competition winners!

TICKETS VERY NEARLY SOLD OUT!
Here at Trees Towers we’ve already started placing bets on when tickets are going to sell out! There’s only a few hundred left, so it really is just a matter of time till they’re all gone. So if you want a ticket – get yours ASAP or when you next get paid cause it might be your last chance – and will be so much more fun than paying your electricity bill! Don’t say we didn’t warn you!

FANCY DRESS THEME!
You voted overwhelmingly for VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS. So get your thinking caps on… there are FREE tickets for the best dressed and we’ll no doubt throw in some beer and merch as well.

COMPETITION WINNERS!
Congrats to Jen Lines & Dan Cox who jointly won the “horns / wristband” photo competition. You’ve both bagged a £50 bar tab at the fest this year for the following photos. The bar monkey will be in touch shortly with details on how to claim your beverages!

Dan Cox’s Photo.
Jen Lines’ Photo.

BIG GREEN COACH IT TO THE FEST!
Big Green Coach will once again be providing a shuttle service between Cheltenham Spa railway station and the 2000trees site (priced at less than a return taxi journey). Coaches operate every hour on Thursday 12th, Friday 13th and Sunday 15th July. There will also be a direct coach service from London Victoria on the Thursday and Friday.

So why not leave your car at home, sit back, relax and let Big Green Coach bring you to 2000trees?

Cheaper advance fares are available online now and you will also get priority boarding on the day! For more details and bookings please visit the BGC website.

SHARE YOUR CAR AND MAKE NEW FRIENDS!
Why not car share to 2000trees? It’s a great way to save money if you’re driving and as it’s built around Facebook, you can see if your mates are going, find people with similar music tastes and check people out before agreeing to share. Plus it’s a fun way to travel and meet new folks!

So if you’re driving, or need a lift, go to GoCarShare and share the fun!

CAMPING IN STYLE!
This year we’ve signed up the good people at Karma Canvas to cater for all your luxury camping needs. To celebrate they’re giving away the use of a FREE Karma Canvas bell tent at 2000trees for two lucky people. Simply email your name to info@twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk before next Friday 4th May with the subject line “BELL TENT ME AT 2000TREES” and we’ll pick a lucky winner!

If you fancy finding out more, then go to the Karma Canvas events page and enter your details for booking information.

NEXT BAND UPDATE!
As you’ve probably heard we’ve got an awesome band signed up who we’ve wanted to book for years. All will be revealed in the next lineup announcement on Monday 7th May!

If we don’t see you before, we’ll see you in 73 days!

Tidy!

Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and JamesEAD
Two Thousand Trees Festival

You’ll be pleased to know that our tame band monkey has been busy trying to book you the very best bands the UK has to offer.

We’re super stoked to let you know that we have the fantastic Guillemots closing the festival on the Saturday night! Whoop whoop – we’ve wanted to book these guys for ages!

Not only that, we’re very excited to announce the following bands have also been added to the 2000trees line up…

Guillemots, The Futureheads, Summer Camp, SCUM, Three Trapped Tigers, Sonic Boom Six, Lucy Rose, Fixers, Brother & Bones, Gunning for Tamar, The Social Club, Fitz, Spirit of John, Luke Sital-Singh, Joby Hardwick, Richard Clarke and Aspen Sails.

Head on over to our line up page to see where and when all the acts are playing. If you want to have a listen just click on the band’s name.

We should probably also tell you that Trees is the only UK festival where The Futureheads will be playing TWO sets – a full band one on the Main Stage and Acapella in the Leaf Lounge. You lucky people!

We’re already placing bets at Trees HQ as to when we’re gonna sell out. So if you’re one of the few who still hasn’t got your weekend ticket, we recommend you buy yours now! You can still get tickets here but not for long!

Peas out!

Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and James
Two Thousand Trees Festival

Here are some more bands for you lovely people. Joining the likes of 65daysofstatic, Pulled Apart By Horses and Gallows we give you…

Dry the River, Future of the Left, Lower Than Atlantis, Lanterns on the Lake, 2:54, Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun, Maybeshewill, Alessi’s Ark, Arcane Roots and LOADS more (we got lazy so haven’t written out the full list!).

Head over to our line up page to see where and when all the acts are playing – and if you want to have a listen just click on the band’s name.

As always, let us know what you think on Bookface and Twatter. And get yo tickets here!

Cheers!

Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and James
Two Thousand Trees Festival

Here are some more bands for you lovely people.

You already know about 65daysofstatic, Pulled Apart By Horses, Rolo Tomassi, The Xcerts, Johnny Foreigner, My First Tooth, Brontide, Turbowolf, Freeze the Atlantic, Marmozets, Run WALK!, Shapes, The Bronze Medal, Goodnight Lenin, The Cadbury Sisters, Sam Russo, Jason Steel and Sam Brookes.

And you will hopefully want to know about these 14 new bands we’ve booked for your listening pleasure… We Were Promised Jetpacks, Gallows (co-headlining the Cave with PABH), Dog is Dead, Sharks, Spycatcher, The Computers, Max Raptor, Gallops, Zico Chain, Bastions, Hymns, Rosa Valle, Harbour and Andy Oliveri.

Head over to our line up page to see where and when these acts are playing – and if you want to have a listen just click on the bands name.

As always, let us know what you think on FaceBook and Twitter. And get yo tickets here!

Cheers!

Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and James
Two Thousand Trees Festival

So here are some more confirmed bands for ya….
We are unbelievably excited by this lot, so we’ll see you down the front with a pint of Badgers!

65daysofstatic, Pulled Apart By Horses, Rolo Tomassi, The Xcerts, Johnny Foreigner, My First Tooth, Brontide, Turbowolf, Freeze the Atlantic, Marmozets, Run WALK!, Shapes, The Bronze Medal, Goodnight Lenin, The Cadbury Sisters, Sam Russo, Jason Steel and Sam Brookes. Bang!

Head over to our line up page to see where and when these acts are playing – and if you want to have a listen just click on the band’s name.

We should also probably point out that the Thursday night Early Entry Tickets are very nearly SOLD OUT. Don’t forget the line up for this night includes Imperial Leisure, Tellison, Tall Ships, Straight Lines and the Cape of Good Hope. Plus a very exciting headliner being finalised as we speak!

In other news, our competition winners are….. Golden ticket (Graham Raeburn) and Ticket For Life (Charlotte Rich). Congratulations, we are very jealous!

Besticles.

Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and James
Two Thousand Trees Festival

First off, a massive thanks to the thousands of you that have bought tickets so far.  You are the legends we love the most!  But don’t worry we quite like the rest of you too!

For those in the know, our Thursday night line up is a collection of your favourite (and most requested) bands from Trees gone by. So you should be over the moon with who we’ve lined up for your aural pleasure this year.  We’re still waiting on confirmation from a very exciting headliner to top all this off, but so far we have the amazing…

Imperial Leisure
Tellison
Tall Ships
Straight Lines
The Cape of Good Hope

There are only a couple of hundred tickets left for this early entry night so if you want to be one of the extra special VIPs and party with us one day early then get yours here NOW!

We’ll be coming at ya with more band announcements in the coming weeks (next Friday to be precise), but in the meantime get involved with our competitions detailed below and who knows you could get a TICKET FOR LIFE.

VIDEO COMPETITION!

If you want to be in with a chance of winning a TICKET FOR LIFE, then simply answer the following questions based on our documentary film, which you can find here.

1. How many 2000trees organisers are there?
2. What are the first names of the two farmers at Upcote Farm?
3. What was the name of the first band ever to play the Cave?
4. How many Trees did Scroobius Pip count when he arrived at 2000trees?
5. The toilets were so clean that you could do what in them?

Email your answers along with your name to info@twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk with the subject line of “TICKET FOR LIFE COMPETITION”. All correct entries will be thrown into a hat and a lucky winner will be picked at random on 13th February. And if you’ve already bought your ticket for 2012 we’ll even give you your money back as well! Can’t say fairer than that now can we?

GOLDEN TICKET!

Simply buy your ticket before the end of today (Feb 10th) and you’ll be put into a draw to win the fabled Golden Ticket and another TICKET FOR LIFE!

We don’t organise festivals we organise smiles!!!

Peas. Out.

Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and James
Two Thousand Trees Festival

Last year we sold over half our tickets in a week, which we thought was pretty special! But this year we’ve sold that many on day 1 and half of the Thursday tickets were also snapped up! Jeeze Louise! You boys and girls are mad keen! Thanks to everyone who’s been so quick off the mark!

We thought you should know that tomorrow (Feb 1st) we’re putting the ticket link up on the website, so the rest of the world can have a chance of bagging a ticket. So if you haven’t got one yet go here right now before they all sell out!

Current competitions…

TICKET FOR LIFE!

If you want to be in with a chance of winning a TICKET FOR LIFE, then simply answer the following questions based on our documentary film, which you can find here.

1. How many 2000trees organisers are there?
2. What are the first names of the two farmers at Upcote Farm?
3. What was the name of the first band ever to play the Cave?
4. How many Trees did Scroobius Pip count when he arrived at 2000trees?
5. The toilets were so clean that you could do what in them?

Email your answers along with your name to info@twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk with the subject line of “TICKET FOR LIFE COMPETITION”. All correct entries will be thrown into a hat and a lucky winner will be picked at random on 13th February. And if you’ve already bought your ticket for 2012 we’ll even give you your money back as well! Can’t say fairer than that now can we?

GOLDEN TICKET!

Simply buy your ticket before Feb 10th and you’ll be put into a draw to win the fabled Golden Ticket and another TICKET FOR LIFE!

We don’t organise festivals we organise smiles!!!

Peas. Out.

Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and James
Two Thousand Trees Festival

We’ve had loads of messages in the last couple of weeks asking us exactly when and where we’ll be releasing the ticket link next Monday (30th Jan)…

Well, because our cheap tickets sold out in under an hour last year (and every single weekend ticket sold out within 3 months), we’re expecting a bit of a rush. For this reason, and to try and reward our most loyal fans, we’re going to post the ticket link up an hour ahead of the “official” 9am opening time. So at 8am on Monday the link will be on our Facebook “event” page. Feel free to share the event with your friends!

So see you bright and early next Monday! And if the website crashes or is slow then please keep trying – our web monkey will be awake bright and early to make sure it’s back up asap!

Much love

Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and James
Two Thousand Trees Festival

Bring on the trumpets!

To celebrate the end of January, we’re giving YOU the opportunity to bag yourself a TICKET FOR LIFE to 2000trees! So keep on reading…

For our 5th birthday last summer, the legend that is Mr Lex Beckett filmed what we think is a top notch documentary film all about 2000trees. So if you’ve ever wondered what the farm looks like before you 5,000 legends rock up, or exactly what goes into making your favourite festival, then this is the definitive video for you!

Have a goosey ganders and let us know what you think on Facebook.  The link to the film is here.

And if you want to be in with a chance of winning that TICKET FOR LIFE, then simply answer the following questions based on the documentary.

1. How many 2000trees organisers are there?
2. What are the first names of the two farmers at Upcote Farm?
3. What was the name of the first band ever to play the Cave?
4. How many Trees did Scroobius Pip count when he arrived at 2000trees?
5. The toilets were so clean that you could do what in them?

Email your answers along with your name to info@twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk with the subject line of “TICKET FOR LIFE COMPETITION”. All correct entries will be thrown into a hat and a lucky winner will be picked at random on 13th February. And if you’ve already bought your ticket for 2012 – we’ll even give you your money back as well! Can’t say fairer than that now can we?

Good luck!

Peas

Rob, Mark, Bren, Andy, Si and James
Two Thousand Trees Festival