July 2011
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FIB 2011
Well it is an odd day for @thisisfib when one has to do something without the other, and it is with a strange loneliness that I, Anita Darling, make my wAy up to Benicassim from Valencia, on my own without my partner-in-crime and teammate extraordinaire, Lolita Devine. The poor love is stranded in Germany, of all places, and so I must endure numb bum on the hard seats of the regional train alone....
August 2010
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La Tomatina, 25 August, make a date for the...
thisisvalencia.com are now taking secured bookings for ’La Tomatina Tour 2010’ for 58€. And what a lot you get for your money!!
We meet at 8am in the main square Ayuntamiento (Valencia town hall), you can’t miss us as we’ll have 4 buses. The bus leaves from here to get us to Buñol in time to stroll through the village to get your place for La Tomatina take off! You are...
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FIB Heineken 2010 in figures
ATTENDEES Thursday: 28,000 Friday: 32,000 Saturday: 35,00 Domingo: 32,000 Total Fibbers: 127,000 % foreign: 60% % domestic: 40%
OCCUPANCY OF CAMPING AREAS Total: 19,200 CampFIB: 13 000 Benicamp: 5,000 Villacampa: 1,200
WORKERS employed directly by MARAWORLD 800 workers, of which approximately 80% are from Valencia
Extra-musical activities ...
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No More Heineken - Lots more FIB
It seems that the international brewery, is pulling the plugs as the main sponsor for Festival International de Benicassim, the highest-profile of Spain’s summer music festivals.
The past 10 years has seen Heineken as main sponsor of Benicàssim and they tried to insist that the media in Spain and abroad referred to the event as FIB Heineken. In the UK it was always simply known as Beni or...
July 2010
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FIN! End of Festival Internacional de Benicassim...
Well I said on the first night that I felt that FIB had changed so much since last year that it didn’t even seem like the same festival any more, but I think we may be back to best friends status after the weekend, as underneath its the same old lovely place it always has been, with the generous and friendly crowd, happy and relaxed ambience, and fantastic music on offer it always has had....
Day 3, Saturday at Festival Internacional de...
Well its Sunday afternoon here in Benicassim and the final day of the Festival is about to kick off. Its been a crazy XVI edition so far, and tonight the biggest news are the changes in the timetables thanks to the fact that Lily Allen has pulled out for the second year running claiming she is sick. Again. The rumours here are that she is pregnant, but if her twitter is to be believed then she...
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Lily Allen cancels her performance at FIB Heineken...
Lily Allen regrets that she has been forced to pull out of her appearance tomorrow, Sunday, at the Benicassim festival due to illness. Having been advised by her doctor that she would be unfit to travel in the next 7 days lily had no option but to cancel. She sends her deepest apologies to fans.
The second year running! But every cloud has a silver lining, Ellie Goulding now Performs on the...
Friday 16th July Festival Internacional de...
I talked about concert clashes on Thursday, but trying to be at three at once (at least) yesterday was bonkers! It was an utter scorcher on Friday night at Festival Internacional de Benicassim XVI and the punters were out in their droves, scantily clad and ready to party. It seems Kate Moss set the rules for Festival Dressing years back at Glastonbury, and no-one really ventures outside the lines...
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Day 1 at Festival Internacional de Benicassim XVI...
Well its only one day in but I can already see that things are a lot different around here. Maybe I was getting a bit confident, but I felt that the festival and I were like best friends, we knew each other really well, our ins and outs, ups and downs and just how we liked things done. And now I’m feeling like I’ve lost touch and been left behind!
Driving into Benicassim there is a huge dark...
June 2010
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La Tomatina! 25 August 2010
The World’s Biggest Food Fight takes place once again on the 25th August. Want to go? Join our all-day tour; La Tomatina, Showers, Lunch with booze(!) and a swim and get back to your hotel clean and refreshed - much more here
THIS IS..... THINGS YOU SHOULD DO BEFORE YOU GET...
VALENCIA is by far your nearest airport, followed closely by REUS. To VALENCIA there are flights this summer from Bournemouth, Bristol and Stansted with Ryanair, and from London Gatwick and Bristol with easyjet. Trains and special Fib buses run from Valencia almost every half hour. To REUS there are ryanair flights from a load of destinations in the UK and Ireland and from some points in Europe...
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Fib 2010 - are you ready for romance?
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THIS IS... WHAT YOU MUST PUT IN YOUR SUITCASE FOR...
SUNSCREEEEEN! Whenever we’re in the UK we stock up on Boots Soltan ‘once’ sun lotion, (one application lasts up to six hours etc… but we’re sure there must be other makes too, don’t quite understand why nothing similar has been brought out here yet!?) and its super handy for those long walks into town/to the beach/into the festival, especially if you’re...
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Fib Heineken Benicassím 2010 - what a line-up!
The Prodigy + Kasabian + Vampire Weekend + Lily Allen + Ray Davies + Peter Hook performing Unknown Pleasures + Haçienda Night featuring Graeme Park, DJ Pierre and Justin Robertson + Leftfield + Dizzee Rascal + The Cribs + Echo and the Bunnymen + Foals + Four Tet (live) + Hot Chip + Ian Brown + Ilegales + Klaxons + + PiL + The Specials + Sr Chinarro + Benga + Calvin Harris + The Courteeners + Cut...
July 2009
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In Defence of Benicassim 2009
We ran a piece on the blog about the winds and the fire at Benicassim - these are some of the comments ross darby said…
im here in castellon waiting to hear if kol will play tonight. last night was like a war zone. at one point i wondered if we were gonna have a few deaths. i left after the toms came on. luckily. met a few people today in castellon who have been evacuated from beni camp...
Anita and Lolita's guide to having a good time at...
Not that we consider ourselves experts or anything, and we’re too much of princesses to camp so don’t take our advice in that area too seriously, but we have compiled a little guide to make sure your time at the festival runs as smoothly as possible. Here goes, music lovers!
http://www.thisisvalencia.com/fiberfib09.html
Benicassim - Wednesday
FIB organisers have confirmed that 70% of ticket holders this year are British!
June 2009
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