Dour Festival: win five pairs of tickets!

Dour festival

ALERT! ALERT! GIVEAWAY PRIZE ALERT! FREEBIES BELOW!

We are giving away five pairs of tickets to Dour, including camping! All you need to do is send your name, your guest’s name, and both of your email addresses to musosguide (at) gmail (dot) com. Easy as. You don’t even have to answer a question! These are the T&Cs from the lovely festival-running people there…

You have until Monday July 4 to enter…

And now you can read the preview…

If the increasingly gentrified and innocuous UK festival scene bores you, and you hanker for something a little more adventurous, you can’t go far wrong with Dour Festival – taking place between July 15 and 18 this year (2010, future readers).

Now maturing into its early 20s, the Dour festival was formally Europe’s best-kept secret, nestled as it within the municipality of Dour, Belgium. However, with this year’s roster of bands such as Faith No More, The Maccabees, Chris Cunningham, Atari Teenage Riot, Los Campesinos!, Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Owen Pallett, Chrome Hoof, New Young Pony Club, De La Soul, Fucked Up, Monotonix and GWAR to name but a meager selection, you’ll be hard pressed to find a festival with a staggeringly vast and varied array of music for the price (Just under £100 including camping or £198 for ticket, camping and ride).

With over 200 bands on six stages over four days, and continuing way into the early hours, toward its climax Dour begins to seem like more of an endurance test, albeit one set in an environment that’s as accommodating as it is relentless. Not so much about going to see the bands you know, but rather stumbling around to happen across some amazing European acts, Dour accommodates for the most esoteric and intrepid music fan.

We’ll see you there.