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THE 20th DREAM OF DR. SARDONICUS FESTIVAL

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The 20th Dream festival takes place, as always, in Cardigan's Cellar Bar - from Friday evening through to Sunday evening, August 2-4 (with a free bonus gig on the Thursday evening).

Pete Bingham has been busy booking some great bands while I have the cushy job of gathering contents for the Fruits de Mer stall, free goodie-bag and raffle; our stall will have a mix of special editions, exclusive lathe-cuts and even some white label test pressings from the FdM archives that will all be for sale at ridiculously low prices

The poster on the left gives you the rundown on the artists who will be playing, with Ken Pustelnik's mighty Groundhogs stepping in for Man to headline on the Saturday night and Astralasia/Mushroom (two bands for the price of one!) closing the festival on Sunday; Moon Goose return after their brilliant set at the 18th Dream festival, Custard Flux will be flying in from the USA, Pinhdar from Italy and The Fertility Cult from Finland - making it a truly international event.

DJ Benway will be taking time off from running the Mantle Brewery to play a set and DJ Astro will fly in from Finland to do the same!

SPWCI and Reuben's Daughters are two Welsh bands who'll be playing a Sardonicus festival for the first time.

Once again, the weekend is sponsored by Record Collector magazine, who are contributing some very welcome publicity for the event as well as some juicy giveaways in the free raffle.

There's even a free pre-festival gig in the Cellar Bar for everyone on the Thursday night, with guitar hero Alain Pire making the trip from Belgium to play a solo set!

Pete is selling tickets direct from Sendelica's bandcamp page - book now BUY THEM HERE ...and then get your accomodation sorted, to be on the safe side - Cardigan can get quite busy in the summer.

If you've not been to a Dr. Sardonicus festival before, check out the 19th Dream page (www.fruitsdemerrecords.com/19thdream.html) to get a feel for our last event - it's really relaxed, friendly and fun; it's all held in the Cellar Bar, opposite Cardigan Castle, in the middle of the town with no more than 150 tickets ever sold; there's hot food for sale throughout if you want it, great local beer from the Mantle Brewery, lots of records and the infamous £5 FdM t-shirts for sale in the upstairs cafe - including our festival exclusives/specials and many from the bands but - most all - there's three days of great live music.

The 2024 FdM free goodie-bags (FREE for everyone attending) will contain ELEVEN CDs include 'Stalking The Wily Chub', the last in the series of Todd Dillingham exclusive compilation CDs that have been put together in his memory by his brother Mick, the first release on CD of 'A New Jerusalem' by Bruce Hendrickson and The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies, new compilations from Alain Pire, Astral Magic, Octopus Syng, Incubus Lovechild, The Telephones and exedra, a back-catalogue CD from Computerchemist, a Lemon Clocks comp of previously-unreleased tracks, a copy of the promo CD for Marco Rossi's 'The Sincerest Form Of Flattery' album along with a download code for the Floorian album 'What The Buzzing' (you might remember Floorian from our 'Birds Of A Feather' compilation)

Meanwhile, although she won't be able to attend this year due to a clash with her rock star nephew's wedding, Liz is busy putting together contents for 20 'reluctant partners' goodie-bag (it even includes a double CD!!!) - free to the first 20 people through the door on Saturday who are clearly there out of love (or tolerance) of their partner.

LATEST NEWS: Sugarbush Records have come up with a tasty selection of back-catalogue LPs for our free raffle
- thank you Markus! CLICK HERE FOR THE SUGARBUSH SITE