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He said although the line-up of DJs and musicians was always good, people came for the whole event, which included arts and comedy. The event has moved around several beautiful sites around the country, eventually settling at Eastnor Castle in Mr Lawrence sought quality acts and events and did not want the event to become predictable. He said he believed the event's "peak years" came to an end in It was uplifting. People came and just loved it.

These were the magic years. He said it was also about a meeting of minds and spawned a website where people would chat about anything - from music to the best curry places in west London and also relationship problems.

Mr Lawrence, who gave up his role in the Big Chill festival in , said he believed in later years it "lost its direction". As it expanded and booked more mainstream headline acts so the original festival goers gradually fell away. Big Chill cancellation 'tough'. Search and Compare Car Hire Rates. Drop-off at a different location?

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It became an important event in the Herefordshire summer calendar and a useful way for us to fill the Park programme over the month of setting up and dismantling. More famous acts included Leonard Cohen, Lillie Allen and Kanye West when the main stage area was heaving with spectators.

The weather never let us down, amazingly, and the Park recovered, free of litter, after a few weeks. After missing because of a clash of dates with the Olympics, sadly the Big Chill decided it should close. It had not attracted quite enough visitors and competition in the middle of the summer for the few headline acts every festival needs was too intense.