Lady Of Leisure has featured us in her blog, a wonderful summary of a fabulous night;

http://thursdaylady.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/around-the-world-with-bearded-kitten/

In neither myth nor legend, since the Romans or Greeks has a tirade of mud, elastic, hay and BASS shaken citizens all the way to their core quite like Secret Garden Party 2011, and Bearded Kitten were proud to be at the heart of it. This year the Collo-silly-ium was off the hook, it’s amazing what can be achieved in a field with some straw and a bit of imagination. WOW Thank You.

The Collo-silly-ium, a contemporary amphitheater filled with mayhem equivalent to it’s ancient counterparts.

As always Bearded Kitten served up a full plate of interactive gaming during the day. No we are not talking about the latest Wii Fit Challenge but SGP by day with Bearded Kitten definitely whipped many Gardeners into shape!

But even for those feeling less than human a good show was the perfect way spend the day, spectating is a highly encouraged and commended sport at Bearded Kitten.

Games included Mission Impossible….

Contestants are lowed from our 10m high truss where they must collect not diamonds but a number of randoms items including inflatable bananas and wigs that have been cruelly bathed in the worlds spiciest hot sauce. To make matters worse they must do so using only there teeth as they hover perilously above the beard mud pit! The Collo-silly-ium audience then decide if they should be dunked or if they should stay clean. The game is of course backed by the mission impossible soundtrack.

Human Crowd Surfing…

The whole arena is involved here in passing competitors from one corner of the arena to the other on a giant surf board with their hands held aloft. The ‘surfer’ passed the furthest before falling off is deemed the winner.

Airel Bungy Antics…

Good Old Mud Wrestling…

The Royal Rumble….

And then then dancing…

Bouncing…

and HAVING IT….

Night time saw the Collo-silly-ium turn into a raging arena where thousands danced the nights away amidst fire, smiles and 24K of BASS.

Big shout out to
Bassnectar, The Japanese Popstars, Rob Da Bank, Goldierocks, Tim Fanucci, Eddie K, Owl & Me, Your Niece, The Crafty Rascals, Whitney Fierce, 10Sui, DJ Tarka, Kevin Macey, My Therapist, Chris Hardy, Bertie Goffe, Your Niece and more for making the music happen.

Loved It.

This year we took revelers ‘Around the World” visiting 7 counties in a seamless journey of, music, dance, and a spot of Karaoke thrown in for good measure.

During the day Bearded Kitten were busy hosting an off the wall gameshow up at the Healthy T Tent.

Games included parodies of classic gameshows including, ‘Human Catchphrase’,  ’Festival Fortunes’ and ‘Countfrown’.

After dark we hosted a smash up super-rave venue in the late night BOOMTOWN field. Beneath is a before and after shot.

What a week! So Glastonbury, Campo Pequeno with Bearded Kitten in The Common can only be described as an adventure of epic proportions. It began on Thursday night with the Lucha Britainna Mexican Wrestling which saw queues form around the beast that is the Campo Pequeno.

Charlie Partridge gets the crowd going.

The sign says it all. These outrageous and talented stage-men wowed, wooed and revved us up for the weekend ahead with flattening, flipping and fierceness.

Friday saw the nine meter truss put into action with audience participation aerial fights. Two contestants battle it out hitting each other with space hoppers.

By night the Campo Pequeno became an outdoor pumping night club graced by the like of DJ Yoda, Friendly Fires and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaur.

Horse Meat Disco early hours of Sunday morning.

This is the entrance (the bull will have fire coming out of it!)

With the sunshine and the arrival of all the performers excitement is building as the rehearsals for our late night show are in full swing!

And we had a visit from Michael Eavis himself earlier.

Exciting!

Campo Pequeno!

Glastonbury Festival 2011 plays host to Bearded Kitten’s most impressive production to date. Behold The Campo Pequeno, positioned at the heart of The Common field this monster of a venue will bring you breathtaking shows, fire installations, a giant Piñata, outlandish Latin themed interactive games and a mass Tomatina tomato fight, not forgetting huge sets, from the likes of DJ Yoda and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaur, that will be rocking out the 1000 capacity dance floor each night ’til 6am.

Yes after months of work Glastonbury is almost upon us and promises to be off the scale.

The Venue

The features of the structure are of an unfathomable scale, created using 70 of the 12 ft (3.6m) high gates taken from the Kennet & Avon Canal set up on end in a circle. These form the crux of the 200 seat arena, which will hold up to 1000 at capacity. The entrance is through a raised Chapel, come DJ booth and walking in to the amphitheatre, greeted by a fire breathing bulls head, you are transported into a Portuguese world of mythical proportions. Michael Eavis is very excited about this project and it is not hard to see why.

Check out the BBC pictures to see how the build is coming on, and see what The London Metro editor Lisa Scott had to say when she came for a visit.

The show

Every night at 1am the dance floor will be cleared to make way for Toro Libre The Bearded Kitten show. Without giving away too much the show will be fusing elements of aerial circus, Flamenca dancing, jaw dropping stunts, thumping drums and a mechanical bull, the show explores the emotional relationship between matador and bull..
It is not to be missed – you will regret it if you do!

Also do not miss out on the 5m by 5m giant piñata, or the Tomatina Tomato fight. Epic.

Line up -

Thursday

Lucha Libre Mexican Wrestling is a wonder of live performance and a show like no other, a huge, jaw-hanging, riotous fun the kind you will never forget. Marvel at high-flying acrobatics, exhilarating physicality and amazing costumes.

Friday

Tropical Taste 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Los Interactivous Bearded Kitten 2.00pm – 5.00pm

closed

Sugarhouse Sessions 10.30pm – 11.30pm
The Unabombers 11.30pm – 1.00am
“Toro Libre” (Bearded Kitten Show) 1.00am – 1.30am
Zero 7 DJ Set 2.00am – 3.00am
Justin Robertson 3.00am – 4.00am
2 Bears 4.00am – 5.00am
Rob Mello 5.00am – 6am

Saturday

Tropical Taste 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Los Interactivous Bearded Kitten 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Closed

10 Sui 10.30pm – 11.30pm
Special Guest 11.30 – 1.00am
“Toro Libre” – The Bearded Kitten Show 1.00am – 1.30am
“Fiesta de la Noche” Late Night Bearded Kitten Games 1.30am – 2.00am
DJ Yoda 2.00am – 3.00am
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaur 3.00am – 4.00am
Friendly Fires DJ Set 4.00am – 5.00am
Jim Stanton and James Hillard (Horse Meat Disco) 5.00am – 6.00am

Sunday

Tropical Taste 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Los Interactivous Bearded Kitten 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Reggae Roast – Excel and Moodie 5.00pm – 7.00pm
7.00pm – 7.30pm  TOMATINA TOMATO FIGHT (1 tonne of tomatoes!)
Closed 7.30pm – 9.30pm
DJs Camembert & Fun Times 9.30pm – 10.00 pm

Lucha Britannia – Mexican Wrestling 10.00pm – 12.00pm
Latin Dub Soundsystem PA – with live instrumental 12.00pm – 1.00am
“Toro Libre” – The Bearded Kitten Show 1.00am – 1.30am
Fiesta de la Noche Late Night Bearded Kitten Games 1.30am – 2.00am
Secret Headliner 2.00am – 3.30am
Lationo Fiesta feat. Jose Luis 3.30am – 5.00am

Join us in the fields or in spirit, we will be sure to take lots of pictures and videos.

In the hour before the show we thought about putting it back as there was no one in the 2000 capacity big top but just as we had all decided that we would the gates opened, as did the heavens and people started to pile in.

The air raid sirens blared out as De ‘ Vere stepped up to the decks and we were off! Compares’ Churchill and Marilyn got the party started and Warm Bear Child set the tone with some rather raunchy fifties costumes!

Burlesque star Agent Lynch really got the swinging sixties off to a boom with her sexy and topical Barbarella Moon Landing Show….

Add in a hippie….

And some GOGO dancers (thanks to the lovely performance agency Warm Bear Child)

And we were ready for a right proper boogie.

As new year chimed, every guy grabbed a girl so a cheeky snog the swinging sixtes we left behind and the seventies got into full motion with a fantastic live band….

But there was no time to waste as the cannons went off again, everyone kissed someone different before, that girl from ABBA said it was nice knowing me and knowing you and we were sent hurtling into the eighties…

Where there was more dancing and good times….

Right up to the nineties where it was all glow sticks and rave culture.

We pogoed into the present day via the Naughties with Your Neice.

Beach Break Live 2011 thank you very much for seven very HAPPY NEW YEARS…

By day we made fun happen at the Highland Games (Bearded Style)

Amy Bee Sting served up some hearty fair…..

…and the contestants got stuck in, after all nothing beats a good old eating challange.

The afternoon saw some very Slippy tug of war.

And by night we globe-trotted Around The World at our concept party which saw the crowd jet setting to several different locations in one dizzying night of fun.

America

France

And of course…..

Scotland.

Thank you for having us.