About Us

Lets Talk a bit about the gang

We are 6 friends from a small town in Newent, just outside of Gloucester.

Life in Newent is good, however we have all felt for many years now that there is nothing to offer the younger generation apart from sport (the sport is great). We have all used the sports clubs and facilities available to us throughout the years, but now we are in our late 20’s/early 30’s, we are all either injured or too old for sport. It’s safe to say our football and rugby days are behind us.

So this is when this amazing idea came to light. We all go to gigs together at any opportunity and also go to LakeFest every year. Man, we love a good festival. So we thought “why don’t we give it a go ourselves?”. We are trying to create an event for the younger generation in our local area and as we all share a love for live music, doing a Music Festival was the obvious route to go down.

Now here we are! We believe we can make this event amazing, and we know we won’t disappoint for one main reason. This is a passion project for all of us. Two of us play in a band called ‘Naked Image’ and have been playing music together for nearly 20 years now, so we have a good understanding of live music and how it connects with the audience. The rest of us equally share a love for live music and all have experience in different areas, which is perfect for creating this dream team. Also, most of us have our own separate businesses, so we share a love for business and strive to create success.

We feel this is key to making this a successful music festival which will stand the test of time!

 – Meet the team –

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Sam Goulding

Sam is the main man. New Heights Festival was his idea and he looks after the main infrastructure of the Festival.

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Paul Mason

Paul is our technical guy. He looks after the Website, Tickets, Socials and Design.

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Dan Yeandle

Dan is our Beer King. He runs his own pub and is in charge of our Bars on site.

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George Gough

George is the Builder of our team. He’s our hands-on guy and brings the Festival's vision to life.

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James Gough

James is on accounts. He looks after the books and also doubles up as a pretty handy Electrician.

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Jack Baker

Jack is the music man. Being a lead guitarist himself, he looks after things on stage and between himself and Sam, they pick who gets on the bill.