The Mayor
Town Info Point!!
Boomtown has well and truly emerged from its slumber and is boldly being propelled towards the next chapter cementing its place as one of the FOREMOST festival going towns in Britain. The success of the 2010 fair is a testament to the scope and growing ambition of Boomtowns mayor: to go above and beyond the horizon; to venture out into the unknown; to promote otherworldly experiences that will tantalise the senses.
Now let me take you back to last year! Boomtown was still pretty chaotic with cars half buried in the neo-noir network of streets that were flanked by seemingly innocuous shops and flame-spouting lampposts. Occasionally you still saw the maniacal horseman prowling the streets on his fire-breathing mechanical steed. Suffice to say Boomtown was certainly no safe haven a year ago. But safe or not, a huge rise in popularity has forced Boomtown to respond resulting in an expansive urban redevelopment headed up by its town officials, and fuelled by its new found popularity. The town centre has been upgraded dramatically with bigger buildings, bigger bands, louder sound! The original handful of destitute streets that spider-webs its way through Boomtown has been growing more and more strands giving rise to two exciting new areas.
May-fair Avenue, an altogether far more elegant part of town has opened its doors to the fair and along its length run deluxe casino’s where dreams can come true, sumptuous restaurants offering excellent and diverse cuisine, suave gentlemen’s clubs which will turn a little raucous as the nights stretch on, and shopping for the slightly heavier of wallet.
Even ‘Old Town’- which still houses Boomtowns senior residents - has never been opened to the public as the buildings are ancient and decaying! In the unoccupied and slightly less dilapidated variety of these buildings the town officials decided to set up old school bars and disco’s playing music from the 50’s onwards (this, they hope, will provide the old-timers with a measure of pleasurable nostalgia thus rendering them less of a nuisance.) Continuing in this vein, traditional cafés, bingo venues, and the like have also been implemented.
And then, as always, you unwittingly stumble onto the wrong side of the tracks and end up in Downtown Boomtown. Here the seedy undercarriage of the cities otherwise reputable veneer becomes apparent around every street corner and down every alleyway. This is where the creatures of the night flock. Gangsters, prostitutes, hustlers, and even hoards of zombies can be seen lurking in the shadows waiting to prey on the hapless, unsuspecting bystander. Brothels masquerade as laundrettes, dingy bars line the streets, and nothing is what it seems. Anyone who finds themselves in Downtown Boomtown must keep their wits about them as its streets are both menacing and unforgiving.
But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and it comes in the form of a new circus arriving at Boomtown. Bassline Circus has commandeered the main dance stage where it will blast out hip, cool, heavy basslines and hard beats.
The mayor and officials attempt to maintain control of Boomtowns ever-growing expansion but don’t expect this to last long. Rebels have already started infiltrating the outskirts of Boomtown promoting debauchery and disdain, and by the time the next annual fair kicks off expect hell to once again resurface on the streets of Boomtown.
Super early bird tickets go on sale 1st February priced at £63! These were sold out in less than a week last year so don’t miss out!
For daily updates please join our new Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boomtown-Fair/176130945746461
Now let me take you back to last year! Boomtown was still pretty chaotic with cars half buried in the neo-noir network of streets that were flanked by seemingly innocuous shops and flame-spouting lampposts. Occasionally you still saw the maniacal horseman prowling the streets on his fire-breathing mechanical steed. Suffice to say Boomtown was certainly no safe haven a year ago. But safe or not, a huge rise in popularity has forced Boomtown to respond resulting in an expansive urban redevelopment headed up by its town officials, and fuelled by its new found popularity. The town centre has been upgraded dramatically with bigger buildings, bigger bands, louder sound! The original handful of destitute streets that spider-webs its way through Boomtown has been growing more and more strands giving rise to two exciting new areas.
May-fair Avenue, an altogether far more elegant part of town has opened its doors to the fair and along its length run deluxe casino’s where dreams can come true, sumptuous restaurants offering excellent and diverse cuisine, suave gentlemen’s clubs which will turn a little raucous as the nights stretch on, and shopping for the slightly heavier of wallet.
Even ‘Old Town’- which still houses Boomtowns senior residents - has never been opened to the public as the buildings are ancient and decaying! In the unoccupied and slightly less dilapidated variety of these buildings the town officials decided to set up old school bars and disco’s playing music from the 50’s onwards (this, they hope, will provide the old-timers with a measure of pleasurable nostalgia thus rendering them less of a nuisance.) Continuing in this vein, traditional cafés, bingo venues, and the like have also been implemented.
And then, as always, you unwittingly stumble onto the wrong side of the tracks and end up in Downtown Boomtown. Here the seedy undercarriage of the cities otherwise reputable veneer becomes apparent around every street corner and down every alleyway. This is where the creatures of the night flock. Gangsters, prostitutes, hustlers, and even hoards of zombies can be seen lurking in the shadows waiting to prey on the hapless, unsuspecting bystander. Brothels masquerade as laundrettes, dingy bars line the streets, and nothing is what it seems. Anyone who finds themselves in Downtown Boomtown must keep their wits about them as its streets are both menacing and unforgiving.
But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and it comes in the form of a new circus arriving at Boomtown. Bassline Circus has commandeered the main dance stage where it will blast out hip, cool, heavy basslines and hard beats.
The mayor and officials attempt to maintain control of Boomtowns ever-growing expansion but don’t expect this to last long. Rebels have already started infiltrating the outskirts of Boomtown promoting debauchery and disdain, and by the time the next annual fair kicks off expect hell to once again resurface on the streets of Boomtown.
Super early bird tickets go on sale 1st February priced at £63! These were sold out in less than a week last year so don’t miss out!
For daily updates please join our new Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boomtown-Fair/176130945746461
