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[email protected] TRUCK FESTIVAL was called off after the Steventon site was submerged in flood waters. As Oxfordshire suffered its heaviest rainfall in 40 years on Friday 20th July the festival site ended up under a metre of water. Organisers were forced to postpone the event after the nearby brook burst its banks. Festival founder Robin Bennett suffered a double blow after his family home in Steventon was also flooded. Robin and fellow Truck organisers moved quickly to re-arrange the festival for the weekend of 22nd / 23rd September. All tickets remain valid or refunds are available. With the whole Truck label and Truck foundation, which last year raised over £50,000 for charity, dependent on ticket money from the festival, it’s hoped people will hold on to their tickets and attend the new dates. In a heroic piece of emergency organisation, many of the festivals bands, including The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Garth and Maud Hudson, as SUPERGRASS will become the first Oxford band to headline the new Oxford well as Truck’s own Goldrush, played at Brookes University Union over two Academy when it opens in September. The band play a special one-off gig at nights in order to raise money to keep the festival going, while other acts, the Academy on Sunday 23rd September.