About Rock And Bike Fest
Established in 2004 in the grounds of Burton Abbey Staffordshire, the Rock and Bike Fest has gone from strength to strength, currently held in Derbyshire close to the M1 with easy access to public transport links.
Every ticket includes free camping for the duration and kids under 13 go free (accompanied by an adult). Designated area for disabled and blue badge holders with an abundance of clean & hygenic toilet facilities.
With a family friendly atmosphere, top catering with foods from around the world, array of stalls, activities inc Kids Korner with cinema, crafts and competitions across the weekend.
Including our famous Custom, Classic Bike & Trike Show with trophies and cash prizes, Tattoo Competitions, Fancy Dress & Acoustic Marquee there is something for everyone.
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Over the years bands & artists such as The Levellers, Pendulum, The Quireboys, Big Country, The Sweet, T-Rex, Vampires Rock, Doctor & The Medics, Toyah Wilcox, Bad Manners, Girlschool, New Model Army, Dr Feelgood, Magnum, Thunder, Nazareth, Anti Nowhere League, Snakecharmer, Gun, Bad Co, OD Saxon, and UFO have headlined our fest.
Charities
Every year we support & donate to charities including Air Ambulance, Blood Bikes, Cancer Research, Parkinsons & Treetops hospice. The main charity we support is Soldiers Off The Street which we are sure you’ll agree is a worthy cause. In 2017 we sponsored & supported Kevin Hayden in his epic challenge to drive 23,000 km across Europe in a 22 year old 1.1 litre Ford Fiesta in 18 days, raising over £5000 and spreading awareness for this fantastic cause.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continuing support over the years & making this one of the best events on the UK fest calender.
Soldiers Off The Street
Every year we support & donate to charities including Air Ambulance, Blood Bikes, Cancer Research, Parkinsons & Treetops hospice. The main charity we support is Soldiers Off The Street which we are sure you’ll agree is a worthy cause.
In 2017 we sponsored & supported Kevin Hayden in his epic challenge to drive 23,000 km across Europe in a 22 year old 1.1 litre Ford Fiesta in 18 days, raising over £5000 and spreading awareness
Cancer Research
Many thanks once again for the wonderful donation to support our work on developing new treatments for cancer – every penny will be used to pay for a new vaccine for prostate cancer which we are currently developing.
We also had a great time at the event and I hope that it went well.
The very generous donation will be used to support a project which is focussed on developing a new treatment for cancer. One of the key problems with the treatment of cancer using currently available strategies is the fact that cancers can be very different and so one drug does not treat all. In fact, even the same type of cancer (e.g. breast, prostate) can be very different between patients. It is therefore important to discover a feature of cancer cells which we can target with new drugs that is common to all cancers.
Many thanks once again for your support – this is much appreciated by everyone in the Centre.
With best wishes
Professor A. Graham Pockley, PhD
Associate Director
John van Geest Cancer Research Centre
What They Say About Us
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Back Street Heroes
“A three day celebration of music and motorcycling, the Rock And Bike Fest has now established itself as an essential part of many peoples biking calenders” “Over the past four years the Rock And Bike Fest has seemed intent upon a grand tour of stately homes across Derbyshire. In 2010 the event the was held at Draycott House before moving to the 18th century pile, Stamford Hall last year. For 2012 The Rock And Bike Fest moved to Elvaston Castle, a gothic revival masterpiece built in the early 1800’s….” “The place started rocking Thursday night with the proceedings opened by Almost Easy who set the bar high for almost everyone who followed them onto the stage. It would be impossible to do all the bands justice… But the acts ranged from the laid back bluegrass/folk guitar work of Clive Eastwood to the sheer oddness of the Black Pig Border Morris. A number of tribute acts payed hommage…..”
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100% Biker
“Over 20 bands including The Quireboys, The Sweet, Toyah and X-UFO, plus tributes to Black Sabbatch, Prodigy, Guns & Roses, AC/DC, The Killers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Levellers, Maegadeth and Rammstein, to name but a few. Toyah joined The Sweet for the finale ‘Ballroom Blitz’ after which she then shaved Vicki Henshaw’s head to raise money for the Macmillan Trust and the childrens cancer ward at the QMC….” ” With such a marvelous variety of bikes and trikes on show it took a while to walk around all the entries, and the lovely Toyah handed over all the prizes to the winners” “There were a mixture of trade stalls and the catering units were selling freshly cooked food. Real ales were on sale at pub prices and the Shimmy Dancers and Black Pig Border Morries dancers put on their festival shows and encouraged folk of all ages to take part….”
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eFestivals
“The Rock and Bike Festival returned to Carnfield Hall to unleash three days of Rock music onto the adoring fans. Rock and Bike Festival prides itself on being a family friendly festival and goes out of its way to ensure that the very young to the very old are catered for with a variety of activities throughout the site to keep the little ones entertained.” “This year the Rock and Bike Festival was celebrating its 13th year as a festival. hence why it was labelled “Best of a dozen years”, the idea being that they invited some of the acts that stood out over the years back for this year. The Quireboys and John Coghlans Quo and Girlschool were all given headlining duties. One of the good things about this festival is that they aren’t afraid to give bands a try and one such band was The SoapGirls, a politically driven, high octane, controversial L7 type band.”