Swn Festival Replaced By One Day DimSwn Event For 2014
Wednesday, 03 September 2014
Written by Huw Baines
Sŵn Festival has been placed on the back burner for 2014, being replaced by a one-day event christened DimSŵn prior to being 're-imagined' for next year.
The multi-venue Cardiff festival has run to four days in recent years, scooping the NME Best Small Festival Award following its most recent staging in 2013.
DimSŵn will take over the city on October 18, with the Amazing Snakeheads, Woman’s Hour, the Wytches, Trwbador, Cian Ciaran, Prides, Glass Animals and Happyness among the first bands confirmed to perform.
Discussing the decision to scale back in 2014, the Sŵn team said in a statement:
“Last year was an incredible year for Sŵn Festival, our seventh edition and our biggest and best yet, capped by winning the NME Best Small Festival Award. It marked a moment for us, as Sŵn Festival had now grown to a size and a significance that was bigger than our small group that put it together.
“Where we once had been able to deliver the event with a tight-knit bunch of freelancers, part-timers and volunteers, we looked ahead to 2014 and knew we’d need a much bigger team, but that was something we just couldn’t make happen for an event of this size. In addition the Festival co-founder, John, who had once been able to put a lot of time in for free, now had full time work. We were too big to be small, but too small to be big. We thought that might be the end of Sŵn Festival, and it was heart breaking.
“John received contact from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. He’d been nominated for Breakthrough Grant, which he was successful in securing . One aspect of the Grant would be support to enable John to leave his job in August and work full time on Sŵn. This was a unique lifeline for the festival.
“At that point in time a one-day event, DimSŵn, made sense, and with support from our partners, the bands and their agents we’re so pleased to be able to make this announcement. Plus, now with Paul Hamlyn Foundation support, we are looking ahead to re-imagining Sŵn Festival in 2015.
“We hope that any disappointment is offset by the great day that DimSŵn will be, and that there’ll be much more good stuff to come.”
Tickets are on sale now here, while DimSŵn will be a 14+ event held across stages at Clwb Ifor Bach, Gwdihw, Moon Club, Buffalo, Four Bars and the Cardiff Fashion Quarter. For the full line up and all the information you'll need, head here.
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