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No Direction Home is a new festival from the End of the Road team on the edge of Sherwood Forest. It’s a unique setting that is second to none.  No Direction Home aims to be an intimate and friendly festival.  Camping will be beside a lake with views of the historic Welbeck Abbey.

There will be music, there will be merriment, there will be all sorts of things that you would expect from the team behind End of the Road:
Attention to detail, award winning ales, Somerset Cider Bus, great food, cutting edge film, comedy, children’s entertainments, a chance to make, do and discover.

Families:

No Direction Home is a festival that everyone can enjoy. There’s a dedicated family camping area located close to essentials, like toilets, water and showers, and the children’s entertainment.

The festival site is easy to get around. There are a number of Information Points, First Aid Point, as well as steward and security points who will all help you to have a pleasant festival experience. They will be giving children wristbands that you can write your mobile number on – this way, one of the festival team of stewards will be able to call you and reunite you with your child as soon as possible if you become separated!

The site has lots of open spaces and wooded areas to explore, and the dedicated workshop area will offer lots of performances, workshops and activities in lots of dedicated venues.

NB: There is a Lake that is accessible to areas of the festival site, please look after your children in this area – there is no swimming in the lake.

THE LOST PICTURE SHOW CINEMA is a vividly realised vintage cinema, a cellulose time machine, woven from intricately sewn and draped fabric. Smartly turned-out usherettes whisper salacious gossip about long-dead stars over trays of ice cream, soda and popcorn. Surely the most glamorous and luxurious festival cinema in the world, The Lost Picture Show will screen everything from the Victorian experiments of Georges Méliès to the slick Hollywood product of today, via 20s musicals, 60s psychedelia and 70s schlock horror; Buster Keaton, Marilyn Monroe, David Lynch, Werner Herzog and many many more. Expect some very special treats.

A LITERARY YURT will play host to several authors a day reading from and discussing their writing – including Jon Ronson, Nat Segnit, Richard Milward, James Atlee, Katharine Hibbert, Richard King, Ben Masters and many more. Browse a carefully chosen selection of titles at the Lutyens and Rubenstein bookshop next door where all of our signings will take place. Each morning the Crazy Comic Club will convene where kids can create their own comic.

Overlooking the lake will be a Flying Boathouse, curated by The Local’s Howard Monk. Here you’ll be able to grab an ale and take in all that the FLYING BOATHOUSE SOCIETY has to offer such as instrument-making, songwriting, live bands, quiz olympics, DJs and much more.

A SECRET POST OFFICE will allow visitors to send postcards to each other for free via a No Direction Home ‘internal mail system’ (example address: “Rob with the curly hair in the blue and yellow tent by the large oak tree”) and a No Direction Home GAMES TRACK offers old-school sports day fun of the egg and spoon / tug of war variety.

Welbeck’s own SCHOOL OF ARTISAN FOOD will run a worskhop venue at the festival. It will offer classes throughout the day, including opportunities to learn everything from how to make butter from scratch to how to make Indian flatbreads.

The Line Up:

Richard Hawley, The Low Anthem, Dirty Three, and Andrew Bird are headlining.  Other artists and comedians already confirmed include:

Austra / Cold Specks / Other Lives / Wet Nuns / The Behemoth (John-Luke Roberts and Nadia Kamil) / Isy Suttie (Dobby from Peep Show) / James Acaster / Joanna Neary / John Robins / Josie Long / Robin Ince / Sarah Bennetto / Storytellers’ Club / Simon Munnery / Thom Tuck / Tom Bell / Tony Law / The Cornshed Sisters / The Crookes / Euros Childs / Father John Misty / Mikal Cronin / Peaking Lights / The Wave Pictures / Woodpigeon / Zulu Winter

Many more on the festival website…

Tickets

Adult weekend (inc camping) £105
Youth 13-17 years (inc camping) £55
Child 0-12 years (inc camping) £FREE
Campervan / Caravan pass £40
Postage + packaging (per order) £5

* UPDATE 2/4/12 * Kids tickets running low…

No booking fees.

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3. Sue & Iain Brewer, September 6th 2011

   Hi,just wondering if the music at No Direction will be similar to EOTR, ie Americana etc, thanks, sue & Iain

   • Romany, September 6th 2011

     At this stage I have had no news of the expected line-up, but I will certainly update this listing as and when I hear anything. As far as I know the festival doesn’t even have a website yet. But we’ll keep our ears open.