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| Truck Festival | |
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 2017 logo | |
| Genre | Rock, Indie, Dance |
| Dates | 21–23 July 2023 |
| Location(s) | Steventon, Oxfordshire, England |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Capacity | 30,000 |
Truck Festival is an annual independent music festival in Oxfordshire, England. Truck Festival started in 1998, founded by the Bennett family (including the brothers Robin and Joe of the band Goldrush). The Bennett family decided that mainstream festivals such as Glastonbury had become too commercial and predictable. Truck Festival is held in July at Hill Farm in Steventon, which lies between Abingdon, Didcot and Wantage.[1] The festival also gave birth to the Truck Records label in 1999.
The main stage was originally constructed from three large flatbed trucks, giving rise to a common misperception is that this is where the name of the festival comes from. However, in 2007 Robin Bennett wrote on the official Truck website: "Contrary to popular belief, the name Truck actually came from a compilation CD I picked up, 'Ten Trucking Greats', the soundtrack of the movie Convoy."[2]
- ^ Stroud, Clover (8 May 2009), "Family festivals are all the rage", The Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 31 May 2009, retrieved 29 January 2010
- ^ This Is Truck website – About the Festival