GIMP Festival

The G.I.M.P. Festival is a 2-day weekend music festival usually taking place in the August of each year. The G.I.M.P., as well as being a humorous name, stands for Great International Music Personalities. The festival was first held in 2003, in Eastbourne's Princes Park. Amongst the acts performing were AC/DC and Muse.

Bands featured

Date	Location	Headline artists (bold), other artists, unconfirmed	Band 1 ticket cost
July 30, 2003	Princes Park, Eastbourne	AC/DC, Muse, Bowling For Soup, The Who, Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Slipknot, Busted, Good Charlotte, G.U.N., HIM, Green Day, Blink 182, Billy Talent	GBP 56.00
August 1 & 2, 2004 (cancelled)	No concert held	Due to weather conditions, the festival was cancelled.
August 1, 2005	Princes Park, Eastbourne	Metallica, A Day To Remember, Anti-Flag - Concert only for metallica, no other bands at this festival (apart from support)	GBP 90.00
August 1 & 2, 2006	Five Acre Field, Eastbourne	Razorlight, The Offspring, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, The Darkness, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Slipknot, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Panic! at the Disco, Underoath, Weezer, System Of A Down, Tenacious D, Trainwreck, Trivium, Simple Plan, Nickelback, Linkin Park, Bowling For Soup.	GBP 36.00
August 14 & 15, 2007	Princes Park, Eastbourne	Slipknot, Bowling For Soup, Trivium, Paramore, Nickelback, Linkin Park, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Billy Talent, The Darkness, Anti-Flag, Muse, My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Simple Plan, A Day To Remember, All American Rejects, All Time Low, Angels & Airwaves, Biffy Clyro, Bring Me The Horizon, Guns N' Roses, Fightstar, Metallica	GBP 49.00
August 16, 2008	No concert held	The festival had to be cancelled - it was to be just a Bowling For Soup concert with support from Billy Talent, MC Lars and Zebrahead, but all 4 bands were stranded in the USA due to weather conditions.	GBP 51.00
August 15 & 16, 2009	Princes Park, Eastbourne	Zebrahead, Angels & Airwaves, Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, HIM, Bowling For Soup, Simple Plan, Billy Talent, Paramore, MC Lars, Anti-Flag, Zebrahead, Avril Lavigne, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Muse, My Chemical Romance, KoRn, All Time Low, All American Rejects, Less Than Jake, Karnivool, Lostprophets, Linkin Park, The Zutons, The Killers, Thirty Seconds to Mars	GBP 54.00
August 14 & 15, 2010	Hyde Park, London	Sum 41, A Day To Remember, Blink-182, You Me At Six, All American Rejects, Slipknot, Jimmy Eat World, All Time Low, Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Anti-Flag, Alien Ant Farm, The Offspring, Limp Bizkit, My Chemical Romance, Fightstar, Linkin Park, Korn, Weezer, Trivium, Zebrahead, Paramore, Biffy Clyro, Billy Talent, Bowling For Soup, Jedward & Vanilla Ice, Muse, Pink Floyd, Green Day	GBP 98.00

Sponsorship

The G.I.M.P Festival has had many sponsors over the year, with one primary sponsor buying the naming rights for that year's festival.

Year	Name of Festival	Other Sponsors
2003	The 2003 Red Bull G.I.M.P. Festival	Orange, Red Bull, Siemens
2004	The Siemens Mobile G.I.M.P. Festival 2004	All sponsors pulled out due to the cancellation of the festival.
2005	The Red Bull G.I.M.P. Festival 2005	Samsung, Microsoft, Sony, Fender, Gibson, Marshall Amplification, McDonald's, Lynx Deodorant, Vodafone UK.
2006	The 2006 Eastbourne G.I.M.P. Festival sponsored by Relentless	Red Bull, Sony, Siemens, Fujifilm, Fender, Gibson, Zildjian, BBC Radio 1
2007	The Sony G.I.M.P. Festival 2007	Red Bull, Samsung, Marshall Amplification, Fender, Gibson, Paiste Cymbals, Zildjian, Yamaha, Toshiba, Fender, BBC Radio 1, Siemens, O2, BT, McDonald's
2008	Festival cancelled, the festival was to be named The Red Bull Festival 2008	Siemens, Fujifilm, Fender, Gibson, Zildjian, Marshall Amplification, BBC Radio 1, Greenpeace, Eastbourne Borough Council
2009	The 2009 G.I.M.P. Festival by Relentless	Red Bull, Microsoft, Marshall Amplification, BBC Radio 1, Tussauds, Logitech, BBC Radio 1, McDonald's, Sony, Gibson, Fender, Siemens, Fujifilm, Paiste, Zildjian
2010	The 2010 Hellmann's G.I.M.P. Festival	Relentless, Sony, O'Neill, Gibson, Fender, Fujifilm, Martin lighting, Marshall Amplification, Harrod's, BBC Radio 1, Apple, Zildjian, McDonald's, The City Of London, Ford.
2011	The 2011 Virgin G.I.M.P. Festival	Virgin, O2, Siemens, Samsung, Gibson, Fender (Confirmed) The City Of London, London Underground (unconfirmed)

NB: Although companies can buy the naming rights up to a year in advance, no company is allowed to have the rights 2 years in a row. Red Bull and Relentless, for example, have held the rights for 2 years each, but they have not been consecutive years.

Location

The venue of the G.I.M.P. Festival had never changed, until 2010, when it moved to London.

Years	City	Venue	Capacity	Average %/Tickets sold
2003–2009	Eastbourne	Princes Park, Five Acre Field	Approximately 5,400	100%
2010 & 2011	London	Hyde Park	Approximately 127,000	100%
2012	London	Wembley Stadium	Est. 115,000	Unknown
2013	London	O2 Arena	Est. 78,900	Unknown
2014–2016	Brighton	Preston Park	Est. 43,000	Unknown
2017–2020	London	Hyde Park	Est. 98,000	Unknown

Possible return to Eastbourne

Eastbourne has also started bidding for the concert to return to the town in 2021. The bid is being sponsored by O2 and Red Bull, and would see the arena in Eastbourne increased in size to 20,000 tickets. This, however, according to DHC Concerts, is not large enough for the fanbase that the Festival now has, and has said that the Festival would probably never return to Eastbourne. Eastbourne Borough Council responded to this, stating that the Festival would lose fans from not moving back into Eastbourne, and would lose the unique atmosphere.

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