Chips Channon s judgment was abysmal, but the diaries are a great work of literature
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Partners in crime, Stefan Poelman and Sam Cottrell
- Credit: Stefan Poelman
Brentwood best mates are putting on music festival ZENfest for the third time in 2021.
ZENfest was born in 2018, when friends Stefan Poelman and Sam Cottrell, both 25, decided to put on a party in Sam s back garden to celebrate a year of their clothing brand, ZEN Apparel.
They started the dream three years ago after a party in Sam s garden
- Credit: Stefan Poelman
Dubbing their party Zenro after the famous Elrow festival, the pair decided maybe they were quite good at throwing a bash.
The first ZENfest had 250 people in a field in High Ongar, the second had 1,000 and now the duo hope to smash the 3,000 mark with a new event planned for September in Kelvedon Hall.
ZENFest is set to go ahead if pandemic restrictions are eased come June.
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ZENFest is set to go ahead at Brentwood s Kelvedon Hall in the summer.
The house music festival will be held in an ancient woodland at the Edwardian house on September 4 and promises an array of international DJs.
Expect Richy Ahmed, ANOTR, Rossi, Pat Wilson, Max Dean, Ryan Resso, DJ Caspa and Funk Cartel.
The festival in 2019.
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The festival in 2019.
- Credit: ZENFest
Think dragons, pandas, bamboo and lanterns, channelling a zen vibe.
Founders Stefan Poelman and Sam Cottrell were just 18 when they first started the Zen brand, firstly as a clothing range and then a music festival.
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When the diaries of an obscure politician called Sir Henry “Chips” Channon were first published in 1967, they caused a sensation, and not only among those whose names appeared in their index (“vile & spiteful & silly,” announced the novelist Nancy Mitford, speaking for the walking wounded). Channon, an upstart Chicagoan who’d unaccountably managed to marry the daughter of an exceedingly rich Anglo-Irish Earl, moved in vertiginously high circles. As a friend of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, he had enjoyed a ringside seat during the abdication crisis; as the Conservative MP for Southend he had looked on with fawning admiration as Neville Chamberlain negotiated with Hitler, and abject horror as Winston Churchill succeeded him as prime minister (Channon was in favour of appeasement). Most eye-popping of all, during a visit to Berlin for the Olympics in 1936, he and various other of his smart English friends had partied wildly with l
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