Zoo Thousand music Festival Attractions
Segway Rally Racing
Segway rally racing is the chance to try something truly unique: rally racing on two wheels standing up! This 2 wheeled self-balancing electric transportation device makes it feel like you’re gliding on air whilst driving with your body. Stand on a Segway and it remains stationary and upright, balancing you perfectly. Shift your weight forward, backward, left or right and LeanSteer™ technology immediately sends you gliding in the precise direction you want to go, at exactly the speed you want to move.
Boutique Camping
Providing stunning and funky places to stay. Set apart from the main camping area will be a Tipi Village and BusBed dormitories! Each Tipi has a 17’ floor and sleeps up to 6 adults. You know that hot, sticky, 'nylon tent of a summers morning' feeling? With a Tipi you can be warm at night and stay cool during the day. Visit www.boutiquecamping.net
Each BusBed Hostel has 11 beds, divided between 3 dormitories with shared access to tea/coffee/cereal bar as well as air conditioning, electricity, hospitality area, chiller cabinet and proper beds!
Ibiza Angels
The Chill: Once chilled never forgotten. The Ibiza Angels 7-minute head, neck and shoulder Chill-massage is a unique blend of Eastern and Western techniques, specially designed to relax and re-invigorate. Delivered in just seven minutes, without the need for oils or special equipment, the Ibiza Angels heavenly Chill-massage brings maximum benefit, with minimum fuss.
Silent Disco
A simple concept with a spectacular affect. Take a room full of clubbers, arm them all with a set of wireless headphones, have two separate DJ's broadcast to them live via two dedicated FM channels and watch the utterly surreal spectacle that unfolds.
A mass of humanity, throwing moves, pulling shapes and singing along to what appears to everyone else to be... complete silence. Welcome to the hugely popular phenomenon that is, 'Headphone Disco'.
Chillout Zone
All the hustle and bustle of the festival might leave some of you needing a time out. We’ve got the perfect solution; the Chillout Zone is where you can experience all sorts of ways to relax in between the excitement.
Fairground
To get that adrenaline in overdrive, come and experience the extreme thrill of our white-knuckle rides.
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Until Zoo Thousand and Eight
GALLOWS (FRANK CARTER)
“We are very, very excited to be there, it’s probably the best line up I have seen for a festival all year. I mean even just on the grime front, Mitchell brothers, Wiley and you’ve got Stanton Warriors and Pendulum, it’s just going to be a really good weekend. So I think we are playing Friday but if there are still weekend tickets available then I think we are gonna snap them off ya. I want to be there for the whole weekend”.
HADOUKEN (JAMES)
“Zoo8 looks quality and we are looking forward to playing this year, we’re
definitely gonna check out acts such as The Cribs, Gallows, Does it Offend
You, Yeah and hopefully the Zebra enclosure”.
THE HOLLOWAYS
“ZOO8. What a pun. If this zoo themed festival turns out to be half as much fun as I’m hoping then it'll be mega. We might have to write a head banging song for the giraffes. There's some top bands I’m looking forward to like Ash, The Young Knives and The Hives. There seems to be a glaring omission in the line up though - no Zootons?”
Metronomy, The Teenagers, New Puritans and Yousef are among the latest acts confirmed for Zoo Thousand And Eight Festival.
Metronomy will take to Friday's main stage, alongside headliner Mark Ronson and many more, while The Teenagers will perform on the Saturday ahead of bill toppers The Cribs.
The first ever Zoo Thousand festival takes place at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent, from 4–6 July 2008.
Additions have also been made to the smaller Tap ‘N’ Tin stage with We Start Fires playing live and Cut Copy DJing.
Meanwhile Liverpool DJ Yousef joins the line-up for the Devious / Pukka Up tent on the Friday and These New Puritans replace Lupen Crook as headliners for the Suburban Kings tent.
The Hives are set to headline Zoo-themed festival Zoo Thousand and Eight.
Taking place at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park between July 4 and 6, the band will play the festival, which will also see performances from Gallows and Ash.
Speaking to NME.COM, The Hives' singer Pelle Almqvist said he was letting the zoo's animals influence his choice of setlist for the gig.
"We're a bit scared that the gorillas will start a riot if we don't play the right songs," he explained. "We've never played a zoo before you know? Once we played at a festival in (hometown of) Fagersta in a field and their were cows there. Did they like our music? Well cows are pretty chilled out generally aren't they? So yes, I think so."
Almqvist said that although she thought it was fine for some of the bigger animals to listen to their set, it didn’t seem right on the smaller ones. He said: "I don't think it’s fair on the small birds - they'll be pulverised by our sound."
The band are also looking forward to playing on the same bill as Ash.
"Last time we played a festival together we had a wrestling match together and we ended up grappling them with a chair," explained the singer. "I think we are ready for a re-match - I'm ready."
