"It's such an honour and a really exciting prospect to be asked to curate a stage at the inaugural Friends of Mine Festival. The incredible Capesthorne Hall is only 20 minutes from The Charlatans studio and it has the makings of an amazing couple of days in the Cheshire countryside. It's a weekend near my birthday, so I wanted to have my friends over anyway - throw in a Jacobean mansion, a lake, 10,000 people, lots of the best bands in the world and it's close to perfection"
- Tim Burgess (The Charlatans)
