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    • DONATIONS
    • MEARFEST RAFFLE
  • MEMORIES
    • FINAL DANCE NEWCASTLE 2022
    • MEARFEST NORTH 2019
    • GRIMLEY ALES
    • 1979 REVISITED
    • MEARFEST WARS 2018
    • SOUTH SHIELDS 2018
    • SLOUGH 2018
    • SLOUGH 2011
    • HASTINGS 2017
    • NEWCASTLE 2017
    • LONDON TWO 2016
    • LONDON 2016
    • CLAPHAM 2012
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   ​MEARFEST BABBLE

BE THE LEGEND

28/11/2017

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BE THE LEGEND

BUY T-SHIRT-TAKE SELFIE-BE IN OUR WALL OF FAME

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SECTION 5 DRUMMERS TO PLAY HASTINGS

28/11/2017

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We met these amazing people when we went to Hastings to sort stuff out.
SECTION 5 DRUMMERS
They look incredible and we hear they sound incredible too.
Our little Baba Mear fitted in well with the group.
We look forward to having them play for us in Hastings 9th December upstairs in the market area.
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METAL MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHOSE THE FAIREST ROCK BAND OF THEM ALL?

28/11/2017

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Some bands just keep giving and want nothing in return.
A thousand thanks to Cameron Vegas and the legend that is Metal Mirror. Whose support has been priceless from the beginning.
Long live the NWOBHM !

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BACKINBLACK VESTS

27/11/2017

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BE A LEGEND
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MILLENNIUM DONATIONS

27/11/2017

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THANK YOU MILLENNIUM FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION 

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backinblack hoddie news

26/11/2017

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Our new hoodie is simply divine.

We have had two samples made and I can not stop wearing mine, it is so cozy and warm and I am proud to wear my daughter's handprint over my heart which the matt black print is nice and subtle.

I have washed and ironed them a number of times to test the quality and I am very pleased with the results, as they are just wonderful. 

Due to time restrictions for us as a family we have decided to launch this limited edition in Hastings on the 8th and 9th December.

They will sell for £25.00

​Send us a message via our SAY HELLO page here, if you are coming and want one stating which size, Medium, Large, XL, 2XL we can not do 3XL I am afraid.  

THANK YOU

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BACK IN BLACK T-SHIRTS FOR SALE NOW!

26/11/2017

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Our best quality t-shirt to date.
Back in Black t-shirts are now ready to buy from this website. 
Take a photo of you wearing it and send it to us to add to our WALL OF FAME.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US AND OUR CAUSES.
BACKINBLACK
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THANK YOU YE GODS OF METAL FESTIVAL

19/11/2017

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we are now known down under

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THANK YOU

YE GODS OF METAL DOWN UNDER WE SALUTE YOU.
​PLEASE FIND THEM CLICK HERE
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CHARITY FOR KIDS

17/11/2017

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Our chosen charity this year is Charity for Kids Hastings. The reason we are helping them is because we love to support local charities to our events, so the patrons of the charities can come and enjoy the event with us. This seemed to have worked well in the past. 

We also want to help independent children’s charities as Molly had Downs Syndrome, her hips were both flexed at birth which is fixable with a body cast, but we will never know what disabilities she would have had, physical, emotional or mental. 

Whoever she would have been we as her parents would have dealt with it and coped and loved her every breath. 

We are continuing to raise funds for The Willows Stillbirth support group, but we also wish to raise money for the living children who need help. 
Sounds crazy but we just love to see people enjoy our donations. 

Here is a photo of Leo, one of the recipients of Charity for kids.

He just wanted to say hello....


"Feel good Friday - Leo wanted to say ‘Hi’ as with his new chair he able to sit up for the first time fully supported....what we do with your help"
​Charity for Kids facebook post.


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you got to hand it to her.......

16/11/2017

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Amazing how this tiny imprint of a stillborn baby’s hand has travelled the world.
30 countries now and increasing.

1500+ likes 300 T shirts. 650 people have seen 17 bands play under Molly’s handprint.

The image has appeared on posters, fliers, pint glasses, mugs, backpacks and baby grows, On our backdrop and on album covers, poems have been written about her. Songs have been recorded. Promo videos have her handprint at the beginning. Molly’s hand print has been photographed on all the different continents on earth. Her hand print has fronted gigs by major bands. Molly has been on tour, on holiday in Africa, she’s been on the summits of the highest mountains on earth. She’s been on the beach, on safari, on cruises and completed emergency shifts, she’s been to Glastonbury, Nepal. Thailand, New Zealand, The States, Canada, Australia and even Norfolk.

Molly’s handprint has ran in races, is on Coffee Mugs and Business Cards. She’s been mentioned on air on Radio Stations, on Pod Casts, On line Magazines and printed word. Her name has been mentioned in newspapers and magazines. Yet she never breathed or cried or opened her eyes, she never spoke a word or reached out to touch another human being. 

Yet her name lives on and through the medium of Heavy Metal Music she impacts on peoples lives. She brings people together and creates awareness and funds charities and projects up and down the country.
All this is amazing and Molly’s story can be read here in Mollys story
All this has happened and its wonderful but id have changed it in a heartbeat if she could have lived .

So when you see this image again remember its all we have of her. That tiny ink mark. That smallest of impressions.

​That rustle of history’s wings.


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WHEN A ROCK STAR TURNS UP TO HOLD THE BABY

15/11/2017

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WHEN A ROCK LEGEND TURNS UP TO HOLD YOUR BABY!

Andro Coulton from EX-Witchfynde, currently Malleus and his lovely wife Sharon, popped by to give Amelie a cuddle back in September 2017 when she was 4 months old. 
They kindly brought special gifts for Baba Mear and Amélie clearly loved the whole day.
She was totally facinated with Andro's beard!


FROM SMALL ROCKS MOUNTAINS FORM

The bond between Brian and Andro blossomed over a scrummy roast chicken dinner, this is when the idea of Brian drumming for Malleus came to fruition. 

Amazing things can happen when people get together.  

Apart from chatting, whats apping, emailing, pinging, face timing on your phones, get on the bus, in that car, ride on that train, walk, hike, go spend time with your friends family and heros.

Good things can and do happen. 
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COMING SOON

15/11/2017

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kevin wynn tysondog - you rock!

15/11/2017

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DONATIONS FOR OUR RAFFLE/AUCTION

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t-shirt donations for auction

15/11/2017

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More shirts have arrived for the Mearfest t-shirt auction.

Thank you John Lambton !
Cheers mate. Excellent !
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donations for raffle prizes

15/11/2017

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​Mearfest at The Carlisle Hastings
8&9th December 2017


Alot of the money we raise comes from raffle prizes and our rockenrollertombolla and our infamous the unlucky dip and if we get anything amazing interesting valuable we will consider an auction.

Keep sending us your stuff 


We had one or two CDs last time that were almost listenable and that's simply not on.
Please dig out those dreadful CDs that you literally can't stand.
Anything of a frightful nature. 1950s Irish folk, Country and Western Any Oxfam Bargain big offerings accepted, please bring on the day


OR

Send us your rock iconic amazing collectables
VINTAGE T-SHIRTS
SIGNED CDS & PROGRAMMES
TICKETS TO A GIG NEXT YEAR IN UK


OR

SEND US A MEMBER OF A TOP NWOBHM BAND
TO COME IN PERSON ON THE DAY AND HOST THE RAFFLE! 

(Guaranteed good press coverage)

​OR 

CUDDLY TOY
SELECTION BOXES


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MORE AMAZING DONATIONS, KEEP EM COMING!

13/11/2017

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GARY COOPER THANK YOU FOR
​THIS PIECE OF ROCK TREASURE.

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After my plea went out for shirts yesterday we have had some splended offers.
From Sweden and Singapore and all over the UK.

This fantastic Maiden shirt is in A1 condition has never been worn and has been donated by the immesurably kind  Gary Cooper ! 

Keep them coming please.

As all us Metal fans know you cant have enough.
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mearfest riding the waves of time

13/11/2017

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This past month Mearfest has really taken off again. Hundreds of new friends. Donations from all over the world. Financial donations direct to the Willows support group, Bands have donated their music and merchandise.
Claire setting up our great web site 
mearfest.org
Shirts coming from all over the Globe.
Terrible CDs for the unlucky dip! People even getting Mearfest tattoos ! 

Fans booking flights from Europe and the States. Cassettes from Singapore, Beloved Iron Maiden shirts from Scotland and England.
People offering their help over the weekend.
Photographers, bands supplying drum kits, backline, guitar and drum techs, medical help, Security staff, journalists, friends offering to help man the door, serve hot food, help Claire with Amelie.

This is what makes our little Festival unique.

This is why we carry on beause ultimately we are remembering our lost daughter Molly and creating something good and positive out of that terrible episode in our lives.

Spare a moment and read Mollys story, and Amelies Story, come and join us its a growing family.
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finding the right word

10/11/2017

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AMELIE MEAR HAS MADE OUR LIFE SO MUCH BETTER

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KEEP DREAMING, BELIEVE, TRUST, LOVE AGAIN!

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t-shirt donations for hastings - december

10/11/2017

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Calling all the Heavy Metal Community World Wide. If you know about Mearfest and could send me a shirt from your band or a shirt from your collection for our Auction on Fri 8th/ Sat 9th at Mearfest South we would be incredibly grateful.

I'll post a thank you and give a biography of every band shirt sent in.

Any Size, Colour accepted.

Lets turn loss into legacy.

Please message us for address/details .

Thank you 

Please help by sharing.
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AND THIS.....

5/11/2017

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This week we were asked if it was OK if Jamie Jay Woods could use our MEARFEST logo for a tattoo? We said, urm yer OK? Thinking nothing of it, then we get this photo. A huge compliment. THANK YOU JAMIE you are so part of the Mearfest family X
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MALLEUS REUNION + SPECIAL GUEST, WHO ME?

4/11/2017

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This afternoon I played drums for the first time since " retireing " 18 months ago.

It was to rehearse the Malleus set for Mearfest hASTINGS 8&9TH DECEMBER 2017, and I have never felt so apprehensive before attending a practice.

Given that Andro Coulton is an original member of one of the most iconic early British Metal bands Witchfynde and we were doing the track " Give em hell " also left me with huge boots to fill. Anyway im very glad to say the session went well and I came away feeling very happy a
bout things.

Im not sure if the others appreciated me singing the entire song at the top of my voice but hey its not everyday you get an opportunity like this. 

I bought the Single " Give em hell " in 1982 at Slough Record Fair. St Marys Church Hall Herschel St Slough on a Saturday Morning when I should have been doing planned overtime at Work.

Little did I know when I first spied this iconic image id be playing the song.

Isnt life, Strange and Beautiful ?

KEEP ON DREAMING THEY DO COME TRUE
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ANDRO COULTON

"Well, what can I say, that wasn't a band's first rehearsal that was 4 mates who 'clicked' from the first note/drumbeat!

We instantly became a band, feeding off each other, taking the music to places it has never been before.


Can we do it again tomorrow?
Malleusrsurrection, stratuspheric!!!"

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More donations pouring in......

3/11/2017

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All the way from Belgium a signed Tank CD. " Valley of Tears "

​A very iconic NWOBHM band.

Sent by our very good friend Philip Van Steenbergen . Thank you so much Philip this is so kind of you. ! Thanks also to Mick Tucker, Cliff Evans, ZP Theart, Barend Courbois and Bobby Schottkowski. An indication of just how widespread and truely international Mearfest has become. A wonderful start to the day !
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