Hop Farm Festival to relaunch away from Hop Farm

After taking 2013 off, Hop Farm Festival have announced they will return next year – but at a new site.

In a statement released on the festival’s official Facebook page, the organisers say they will remain in Kent – in Tunbridge Wells – but will no longer occupy the eponymous Hop Farm site.

To confuse matters, a rival promoter is looking to launch a new fest at Hop Farm, whilst also calling itself the ‘Hop Farm Music Festival’. Acquiring the trademark to the Hop Farm brand name, festival tycoon Vince Power is hardly please.

Read the full statement beneath:

“Hello Hop Farmers, well it’s been a while, but we have released the following statement today:

Vince Power’s Hop Farm Music Festival is set to return to Kent in 2014, at a new site in Tunbridge Wells. Having used the Hop Farm Family Park to stage 5 Hop Farm Festivals Vince Power has secured a new site in Tunbridge Wells for the 2014 event. Details will be announced in the near future.

Reports suggest that another festival is to be hosted on The Hop Farm Family Park site, called the Hop Farm Music Festival, but this event has no association with the well-established Hop Farm Music Festival. This is an unfamiliar event organised by an entirely different promoter and team. Despite the naming of this event it is not in any way connected with the esteemed Hop Farm Music Festival.

The Hop Farm Music Festival is an established brand having booked some of the world’s biggest artists and priding itself on the best line ups seen in recent years. It has hosted unforgettable performances from the likes of Prince, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Mumford and Sons, Florence and the Machine, Eagles, Primal Scream, Patti Smith, Manu Chao and many more.

The Hop Farm Music Festival 2014 will retain its traditional ethos of No Sponsorship and No Branding and will remain a ‘music festival’ in the truest sense of the title. “

[via CMU]