Reviews Of The Best Music Festivals UK
20 June 2022
Review by Keith Dennelly
This years Bearded Theory was promising to be a particularly sweet occasion following several postponed attempts and subsequent cancelled re-arrangements due to the pandemic....
09 May 2022
Review by Neil del Strother
There’s something satisfyingly substantial about Byline. It’s an intelligent – intellectually stimulating – festival chock full of insight, interest and intrigue. Albeit the latter I’ve added just for the sake of alliteration.
18 September 2021
Review by Ben Robinson
Feasty Fest is touted as a food and drink festival but we found it to be much more. Featsy Fest is a one-day event with a huge variety of food, drink and entertainment for all the family.
14 September 2021
Review by Emily Bird
Having only begun in 2018, All Points East is relatively new to the London Day Festival scene, but it has quickly risen to the top of the summer calendar for alternative live music in a smaller and more intimate setting than many of its competitors.
07 September 2021
Review by Keith Dennelly
How do you put into words the excitement visible on every persons face that passed through the entrance to Watchet festival this year
21 August 2021
Review by Owen Williams
Boardmasters returns! The UK’s biggest Surf, Skate and Music Festival returns after two years off. Of course, like for most festivals around the world 2020 was a write off and in 2019 Boardmasters
12 August 2021
Review by Duncan Whittaker
You’d happily wait two years for your team to win the Champions League. You’d happily wait two years to get your dream job. But waiting two years to go to a festival?
03 August 2021
Review by Keith
The quality of bands here never fails to amaze me, and I rarely ever leave this weekend behind without a favourite new, usually unsigned, band or two to follow up and look out for.
07 September 2020
Review by Neil del Strother
Can an August bank holiday getaway be simultaneously a straightforward camping weekend and – shhh, keep it quiet under your psychedelic felt hat...
01 October 2019
Review by ben@ukfestivalguides.com
HowTheLightGetsIn Hampstead Heath
09 September 2019
Review by Neil del Strother
There is something gorgeously addictive about Into the Wild. It has the eccentric charm of a barmy great aunt who took far too much dodgy acid in her wayward youth.
09 September 2019
Review by Neil del Strother
Byline and Curious Arts Festival 2019
02 September 2019
Review by Keith Dennelly
Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it?! This year Watchet festival was stuffing its face, basking in the hottest august bank holiday on record and oozing quality from every orifice.
09 August 2019
Review by Keith Dennelly
The bands on the bill were a great mix of styles, not just the punk that you might think you were in for, or the advertised headliners, but Mad Apple Circus`s ska hip hop had the punters rockin`
07 August 2019
Review by Neil del Strother
n truth Womad 2019 wasn’t perfect, but it was bloody brilliant, if not some way beyond it. And my right-on-it teenage daughter thought so too...
07 August 2019
Review by Lynn Darracott
Wow! What can I say Camp Bestival is an absolute feast for the ears, eyes and definitely taste buds!
29 July 2019
Review by Duncan Whittaker
There is no better feeling than finishing work on the Friday, getting in the car and driving down to what is, in Beat-Herder’s own words, “an orgy of beats and barminess.”
12 July 2019
Review by Neil del Strother
It’s rare a performance leaves me with a sense of sheer joy, but the great Jimmy Cliff (mystifyingly not a headliner at this year’s Love Supreme) left me reeling...
12 July 2019
Review by Neil del Strother
In its triumphant second year the Black Deer festival has successfully rebranded the leafy afternoon-tea-addicted Sussex/Kent borderlands as the Deep South.
09 July 2019
Review by Neil Del Strother
Casahless, Stashless and Care-less in the Deep South
