Remember the Peninsula Festival? Greenwich Council wasn’t the only public body stung by the failed event, which was due to run during the Olympics, but closed early and ended up going into administration. London mayor Boris Johnson has written off a £99,000 debt owed to the Greater London Authority from Peninsula Festival Ltd, the company […]
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Greenwich’s Peninsula Festival closes its doors
The Dutch dream has died – the Peninsula Festival is closing after a troubled few days of existence. Just two more events are planned for the weekend, with the site being closed until then. I also understand that founder Frank Dekker has resigned as a director. He hasn’t responded to an email asking for an […]
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Greenwich and the Olympics: The profit and loss account
1pm update: I’ve just got home (from the table tennis at ExCeL, natch) and found the latest edition of Greenwich Time on my doormat. This headline from the propaganda weekly shows the council’s reputation-first communications policy falling flat on its face – there’ll be a few hollow laughs in Greenwich town centre at this. I […]
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Greenwich Council leader dodges Peninsula Festival questioning
Greenwich Council leader Chris Roberts refused to answer a question about the trouble-hit Peninsula Festival at Woolwich Town Hall last night, despite the authority funding the event with £50,000. It follows the cancellation of the festival’s launch night, which had been due tonight, and the loss of last weekend’s London Blues and Soul Festival. Greenwich […]
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Peninsula Festival delayed as Dutch show cancelled
Greenwich’s Peninsula Festival will now kick off a week later than planned after a second event was cancelled. If it Ain’t Dutch, it Ain’t Much! had been due to bring DJs to the festival site on Wednesday, but has been cancelled due to “circumstances beyond our control”. The Peninsula Festival will now start on Friday, […]
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Peninsula Festival gets blues as soul show scrapped
The launch event for the Peninsula Festival, which was due to star Jools Holland and Bill Wyman, has been cancelled with just a week to go. The two-day London Blues and Soul Festival had been due to feature performances from the former Squeeze and Rolling Stones stars alongside Marc Almond and Ruby Turner. It had […]
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Oranjecamping pulls out of Greenwich Olympic campsite
853 exclusive: Plans for an Olympic campsite on Greenwich Peninsula are being scaled back after Dutch firm Oranjecamping pulled out of the project just weeks before its planned opening date. Tickets are still being sold for Oranjecamping London, but the firm will now no longer be operating the site, whose backers hoped to attract 4,000 […]
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Greenwich Council funds Peninsula Festival after denying it
Something this website has missed over the past couple of months is the upturn in fortunes for the Peninsula Festival – after being comprehensively refused licences in September, plans for concerts on a patch of land between the Pilot pub and the A102 were approved last December, proposals for a campsite have also been backed […]
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