Reviews Of The Best Music Festivals UK
23 June 2025
Review by Neil del Strother
Forget yoga, forget mindfulness, if you want to leave all your cares and worries behind come spend a weekend at the Wealden Literary Festival. Set in a remote rural oasis in deepest Kent
28 May 2025
Review by Joshua Perrett | Photo Kali Kostova
A whirlwind tour of the city’s upcoming artists and famous venues
26 May 2025
Review by Ben Robinson
he crowd of nearly 10,000 people filled the stadium to capacity, creating an electric, festival atmosphere. Under a clear spring sky, fans danced and sang along throughout the evening
11 September 2024
Review by Ben Robinson
FeastyFest 2024 in Cheam made a triumphant return this year, transforming into a two-day event, giving attendees even more time to soak up the festivities.
30 August 2024
Review by Neil del Strother
Into the Wild is about as unpretentious a festival as you can imagine. It feels homespun and, dare I say it, cobbled-together and exudes a charm and warmth that’s irresistibly contagious.
21 August 2024
Review by Neil del Strother
There are times I feel so unbearably uncool I want to crawl into a dark hole. At Medicine Festival I feel this in spades. If you want to know where all the beautiful – alternative
02 August 2024
Review by Neil del Strother
There are festivals and then there is Womad. Over an extended Wiltshire July weekend it reliably serves up a vision of a better world, where all ages, creeds
02 August 2024
Review by Words by Duncan Whittaker and Clare Viner
Orbital, The Wailers and Utah Saints rock the woodland dance floors buried deep inside the lovely Lancashire countryside
02 August 2024
Review by Words by Duncan Whittaker and Clare Viner.
Leafy Lytham has established itself as a heavy weight in the Northern festival scene over recent years
12 July 2024
Review by Neil del Strother
The first rule of FOMO is you can’t go to everything. Or perhaps, seeing as we are all one – as I’m sure free-flowing hippie and afternoon wonder act Joss Stone would agree
23 June 2024
Review by Neil del Strother
Each year Black Deer surprises me. In my everyday life I spend very little time listening to country music, or rather Americana, it’s just not my thing
15 September 2023
Review by Neil del Strother
When you stumble upon somewhere beautiful and unspoiled the temptation is to keep it secret, as a special place just for you, as somewhere to return to and shed the troubles of the world.
12 September 2023
Review by Ben Robinson
Feasty Fest in Cheam delivered an unforgettable day of pure musical bliss, leaving attendees fully satisfied!
30 August 2023
Review by Neil del Strother
There is something endearingly homespun about Into the Wild. It’s this that makes it such a charming and enjoyable festival. Indeed, after a particularly stressful and convoluted drive to its rural idyll Sussex site
22 August 2023
Review by Neil del Strother
Festivals have personality. Some are boisterous, some a little restrained, and some are just beautifully chilled. The Medicine Festival is very much in the latter camp.
02 August 2023
Review by Neil del Strother
Every year Womad reliably serves up an embarrassment of musical riches. There’s a seemingly inexhaustible list of extraordinary and – to me at least...
09 July 2023
Review by Neil del Strother
Let’s start off with the women. A healthy percentage of the acts over the Love Supreme weekend – including the excellent main stage headliners on the Saturday and Sunday nights
29 June 2023
Review by Neil del Strother
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine Boomtown
20 June 2023
Review by Neil del Strother
Seventy-one year old Chrissie Hynde was anticipating a younger audience. She told us this twice so she must have meant it.
07 October 2022
Review by Neil del Strother www.neildelstrother.co.uk
Sometimes it’s easier to define something by what it is not: How The Light Gets In is not Boomtown. In fact it’s just about as diametrically opposite to Boomtown as it’s possible to be.
