Rhâââ Lovely Festival

Established Apr 2000

Ethics

---Those gentle bands came to see us once---

31knots :: 65daysofstatic :: a december lake :: a whisper in the noise :: absinthe (provisoire) :: amnesia :: arca :: arnaud michniak :: audrey :: below the sea :: berg sans nipple :: bracken :: calc :: carte postale stage :: charlottefield :: cheval de frise :: chuck norris :: crippled black phoenix :: de.portables :: deerhoof :: dreamend :: durutti column :: electro:lux :: explosions in the sky :: frank shinobi :: grails :: half asleep :: hangedup :: hood :: i love plane :: i love sarah :: jf muck :: k-branding :: laila kwyne :: lecitone :: loobke :: manta ray :: manyfingers :: matt elliott :: migala :: milenasong :: milgram :: millimetrik :: my own :: part chimp :: patton :: peach pit :: pelican :: pentark :: piano magic :: picastro :: quiet :: raymondo :: red sparowes :: redneck manifesto :: rothko :: san remo :: shipping news :: souvaris :: squares on both sides :: stafrænn håkon :: starfield season :: stinky squirrels :: sweek :: t.i.f. :: tarentel :: the matt elliott foundation :: this is your captain speaking :: tiger fernandez :: toboggan :: tom sweetlove :: tomàn :: tristeza :: v.o. :: vandal x :: yndi halda :: zythum

---Principle---
The festival's leitmotiv is to put forward quality performers from a specialised domain for a lower price (12 EUR for 12 bands) -for the sake of an access to culture for everyone-, moreover in a small country village in the surroundings of Namur (Belgium).

---Sponsoring---
The current trend for big festival organisers (like Rock Werchter) is to look at their happening more as a means to supply private companies with a big mass of public than as a way to please this public with what it is waiting for. This is a drift of neoliberalism that we obviously condemn.
It is for that reason that the Rhâââ Lovely team has deliberately decided to do without sponsoring from private companies.

Check out RAP's website for more information (http://www.antipub.be/)

---Fairtrade---
For the sake of respect of workers from all over the world but also of not working with monopolistic multinationals present on the market (Coca Cola Company, Interbrew...), we only propose traditional products or coming from the fair trade (drinks, food...). This, again, for a lower price.

Check out Oxfam's website for more information (http://www.madeindignity.be/Public/)

---Live nation---
The American company Clear Channel and its little sister Live Nation are fundamentaly modifying the Belgian alternative landscape, standing out in every domain, building step by step their monopoly in such different domains as concert organisation, artist representation, advertising, public space (street furniture and public transport) and ticketing (Goformusic).
The Rhâââ Lovely cannot support such an attitude and has thus decided not to work with this company anymore, even if it means losing opportunities.

Check out RAP's file for more information (http://www.antipub.be/)

official website: www.rhaaalovely.net
official myspace stuff: www.myspace.com/roquenval