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The Best “First” Festivals – where to lose your festival cherry

18th January 20189th April 2018General Festival

It’s a new year and the days are getting longer… this means the UK festival season is almost upon us again! For a veteran like me, I get so excited knowing what’s to come and

2017 Festival Round Up

27th December 201714th January 2019bestival, Blissfields, boomtown fair, Camp Wildfire, General Festival, Glastonbury, secret garden party, Winter Festival2017, bestival, Blissfields, boomtown fair, BST Hyde Park, Camp Wildfire, festival overview, Glastonbury, round up, secret garden party, uk festivals

My Year Of Festivals! Is anybody else in disbelief that 2017 is almost over? It feels like just a few weeks ago that it was spring, I had just set up this blog and I

Oh My God, It’s The Church! – Artist Spotlight

13th November 20175th January 2018Artist Spotlight, General Festival, Music, secret garden partyartist spotlight, church sermon, festival bands, festival church service, festival music, Morgan the Organ, new music, Oh My God It's The Church, OMG It's The Church, the Reverend

One of my favourite discoveries on the UK festival circuit this year was Oh My God, It’s The Church! I’d heard good things about them from friends in summer 2016, and knew I must get

A Greener Festival – Interview with Claire

3rd November 201719th November 2018Company Spotlight, Environment, General Festivala greener event, a greener festival, AGF, arcadia, claire oneill, composting, leave no trace, local area impact, sustainability, the environment, think green, waste

Something a little different from me this week! I’ve always tried to be as environmentally friendly as possible in my daily life, and at festivals I behave no differently. I’ve always admired Glastonbury’s mantra of

Bestival 2017

26th September 201713th December 2018General Festivalbestival, Bestival 2017, Bestival of colour, Colour, Festival Food, festival review, glitter, new location, press, rainbow, rob da bank, summer 2017, sunday best, vegan

2017 marked a year of change for Bestival, one of the UK festival scene’s giants. After 13 years on the Isle of Wight, Rob da Bank’s yearly party moved to it’s new mainland home in

Boomtown Fair 2017

15th September 201710th January 2019General Festival, Volunteeringbehind the mask, boomtown, boomtown fair, drum and bass, dub, festival review, immersive, immersive festival, immersive theatre, reggae, sector 6, ska, tabard, work, working at festivals

I had a punter’s ticket to this year’s Boomtown Fair festival, but due to my two friends having to drop out last minute, I decided to work it instead and sell my ticket. Luckily for

Secret Garden Party 2017

31st August 20175th January 2018About Me, General Festival, secret garden partyboutique festival, festival, festival diary, festival review, glitter, hedonism, last ever sgp, review, secret garden party, SGP, summer 2017, uk festival

It was announced at the beginning of the year that 2017’s SGP would be the last one ever. After 15 years of music & hedonism, one of the UK festival scenes biggest unkept secrets would

Blissfields 2017

31st July 201713th December 2018Blissfields, General Festival, Smaller Festivalsboutique festival, Camping, cider, dj, family friendly, family friendly festival, Festival Food, festival review, glitter, henna, hot, independent, kid friendly, kids, lady Leshurr, main stage, metronomy, parenting, partyhats, smaller festival, sunny, sunny festival, the cinematic orchestra, winchester

I must start this post by saying a huge thank you to Strong Island Co (in particular, Stu) who sorted me tickets to Blissfields festival! I’ve always wanted to go, especially as it’s so close to

Glastonbury 2017

14th July 201717th June 2019General Festival, Glastonburyday by day, diary, festival, festival diary, festival review, Glastonbury, glastonbury festival, glitter, john peel, my festival, other stage, pilton, pyramid stage, shangri-la, south east corner, worthy farm

Fair warning: this is going to be a long post! I considered splitting it into separate posts for different aspects, but I prefer everything neatly arranged, so this is my huge, mega, bumper Glastonbury blog

Camp Wildfire 2017

30th June 201713th December 2018Camp Wildfire, Camping, General Festival, Smaller Festivalsactivities, activity, adults only, adventure camp, competition winners, crafts, craig charles, festival review, games, glamping, kent, patrol, small festival, wildfire, wildfire adventure camp, winners

Earlier this year a lovely friend of mine called Helen told me about a small festival in Kent that is an adult adventure camp during the day (think crafts, games, exploring), and a music festival