WHAT THEY SAID
Awards
LIVE UK Music Business Awards: Best Medium Sized Festival – WINNER
Planet Rock: Festival Of The Year – WINNER
Nominations
UK Festival Awards:
- Best New Festival – RUNNER UP
- Best Medium Sized Festival
- Best Toilets
- Critic’s Choice Award – Heaven & Hell
Classic Rock Awards: Event Of The Year
Press
“Critics Choice”
- The Times
“The Best 50 Festivals Of 2010”
- The Independent
“A fantastic bill for fans for prog and classic rock”
- The Guardian
“The home of metal, prog and rock festival mayhem”
– Guardian Guide
“Show Of the Week”
- Time Out
“Classic, progressive and hard rock acts in abundance…”
– Daily Star
Artists
“The guys in the band [who are Americans] knew what it meant to me to come home and show what we could do. They really turned it on that day; gave it some extra oomph. It was very special.”
- Mick Jones, Foreigner
“This is hopefully the first of many many killer High Voltage Festivals”
– Neil Fallon, Clutch
“It’s the first time we’ve ever been on a festival where we feel like we belong”
– Mark Kelly, Marillion
“I think this will grow and grow and grow. I’m just really glad I’m in at the front of it”
– Joe Elliott, Def Leppard
“The line up is so good”
– Joe Bonamassa
Customers
“The best organised festival I have ever attended, looking forward to 2011”
- Bernt Haave (HV Facebook Forum)
“The food was impressive and reasonably priced”
– Brian Henry Knight (HV Facebook Forum)
“Thank you guys – we had a brilliant time – the best festival this year!!”
- Beverley Wilson Bruce (High Voltage Facebook)
“Congratulations on putting on such a fantastic festival, here’s to 2011!”
– Paul Morris (High Voltage Facebook)
“Looking forward to see the 2011 line-up. Both ZZ Top & Joe Bonamassa would be very welcome again!”
– Brian Barker (High Voltage Facebook)
“A Great Weekend of Classic, Prog and Metal Rock – something for all tastes, and the weather was fab too!”
– Roger Franks (High Voltage Facebook)
“Great festival, definitely one for the calendar next year.”
– Karen Fawcett (High Voltage Facebook)
“The BEST DAMN festival I’ve ever attended, it was awesome!”
– James Oreton (High Voltage Facebook)
“Loved it! Can we have one every weekend?”
– Alison Smith (High Voltage Facebook)
“The spit roast chicken and spuds is the best food i’ve ever had at a festival. Good value too”
– Sandra Ali (High Voltage Facebook)
“It was so cool. I’m glad I flew over from Holland to see it.”
– Mark Deren (High Voltage Facebook)
“It was amazing, just coming back into France and still astounded !! Thank you”
– David Verger (High Voltage Facebook)





