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The Isle of Wight Festival 2007 was the sixth revived Isle of Wight Festival on the Seaclose Park site in Newport on the Isle of Wight. It took place between 8 June – 10 June 2007. Tickets went on sale at 9am on Thursday 22 February and were sold out by Monday 26 February. It was the first festival since 2003 with no official sponsor. The festival capacity was around 60,000. Local artist, Helen Davenport, created a illuminated wicker and tissue paper statue to commemorate the performance of Jimi Hendrix at the 1970 festival.〔(Jimi Hendrix Sculpture )〕 The campsite was located next to the site on an extensive farmland site. The Seaclose Park site was within ten minutes' walking distance of the town of Newport. The 2007 Festival sold out in a record time of less than five days. The festival was The Rolling Stones' first British festival performance for over thirty years since their performance at the 1976 Knebworth fair. The festival once again featured the popular Carling warm beer amnesty, in which people could trade warm beer for cold cans of Carling. The Red Arrows performed a full-smoke aerial display during the festival weekend.〔(Isle of Wight Festival 2007 )〕 The festival won the "''Best Major Festival''" award at the 2007 UK Festival Awards in London in November 2007. This beat off stiff competition from Glastonbury Festival, T in the Park and Reading and Leeds Festivals. This success was followed by promoter, John Giddings, winning the "''Outstanding Contribution to UK Festivals''" award. In reaction to this, Glastonbury organiser, Michael Eavis, offered to present Giddings with the award personally. == Highlights == * Part of the stage moved forward during a performance by The Rolling Stones. * The Rolling Stones were joined on stage by Paolo Nutini and Amy Winehouse. * The Feeling performing an energetic cover of The Buggles ''Video Killed the Radio Star'' to the delight of the crowd. * Mick Jagger quipped whilst interacting with the crowd that the festival was somewhat of a non event. Stating 'the water costs two quid, the burgers four, and a dog ate my dope'. * There were pyrotechnic displays during the performance of Muse, particularly during the final song ''Take A Bow''. * Snow Patrol lead singer, Gary Lightbody interacted with spectators outside the festival site on the opposite bank of the River Medina, which resulted in 'tongue-in-cheek' boos from the paying crowd. * Country Joe McDonald managed to get the crowd chanting the profanity 'fuck' for a minute. * The crowd continuing the chant of L.S.F. after Kasabian's set had finished. * A full Red Arrows aerial display performed on the Saturday afternoon crowd members speculated was better than some acts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isle of Wight Festival 2007」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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