The festival’s name is a reference to Stendhal syndrome \u2013 a psychological condition in which people experience dizziness or being overwhelmed when exposed to works of exceptional beauty.<\/p>\n
One up-and-coming band hoping to make an impression with their Stendhal debut is Growing Pains from Londonderry.<\/p>\n
The band is made up of Aidan, Sean, Marty and Turlough, all of whom are aged 15 and 17 years old.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been playing for over a year now,” said guitarist and singer, Aidan.<\/p>\n
“Me and Sean, our bass player, became friends through music and did courses together at the Nerve Centre in Derry, so it all grew from there.<\/p>\n
“We’re playing on Saturday on the Woolly Woodland Stage, and we’re buzzing. <\/p>\n
“We’ve been going to Stendhal for years, but this is our first time playing as a band, so it’s really exciting.<\/p>\n
“It’s the biggest stage we’ve played on. We’ve done youth club gigs before, but this is our first proper festival. <\/p>\n
“It’ll be amazing to play on a stage where we’ve seen so many bands we look up to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The festival’s name is a reference to Stendhal syndrome \u2013 a psychological condition in which people experience dizziness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}