Escape Into the Park

June 12, 2006

As the Summer temperature goes through the roof, things are hotting up for Escape Into The Park. The festival?s new organisers, Angel Music Group, due to massive public demand, have expanded the event to include even more music than ever before. The site has grown in size and will be laid out differently from any event that has gone before it. Six state-of-the-art music arenas will be hosted by some of the best-respected names in dance and urban music including Godskitchen, Radio 1 and Miss Moneypennys. With the fantastic weather that we have experienced recently and the great forecast the organisers have also taken the steps of including another outdoor stage as you can see from the site plan.

The star studded line up of Welsh and international talent which includes Goldie Lookin? Chain, Mylo, Deep Dish, Armin Van Buuren, Judge Jules, Tim Westwood and Big Al, has earned praise from the UK national media including the BBC, the Guardian, NME and Q magazine.

Local Swansea councillor Rene Kinzett, has also confirmed he will be attending the event and has thrown in his full support. He says, ?Escape into the Park will bring some of the greatest names in dance music to Swansea and will provide a fantastic platform for quality Welsh performers and DJs. I hope people use the festival as an opportunity to come and enjoy Swansea for the entire weekend and make the most of our stunning city, beaches and parks.?

The festival will also be supporting an important Welsh charity, Shelter Cymru. This is Wales? leading housing and homelessness charity and was chosen because of their commitment to young people and children. In 2005, the charity helped over 5000 children find a home and they are part of the national campaign Building Future Lives to stop thousands of children waking up in bad housing every day. The charity is working with Goldie Lookin Chain to get their endorsement to help celebrate their 25th anniversary.

A Shelter Cymru spokesman says

?We are thrilled to be involved with Escape into the Park as their nominated charity. It?s a fantastic event for music lovers in Swansea and a brilliant way to raise the awareness of how young people can be affected by homelessness or poor living conditions. We run a peer education project across Wales where the young people involved pass on their experiences of homelessness and give advice to school children, to help prevent them from becoming homeless in the future. Music is used as part of the Peer Education presentations to schools and is hugely successful in getting the message across. We are delighted to be involved with Escape into the Park and look forward to a very successful event.?

The event is being talking about in the highest of quarters and rumours are that Catherine Zeta Jones will be back home and attending the event as well.

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