Recommend a Festival

[treadlightly]

The festival season will be upon us soon and I thought it a good idea to invite people to recommend one/ones they have been to in previous years and enjoyed. We could build up a little store of good things to check out this summer.

I'll kick off with Festival at the Edge, a small storytelling festival on Wenlock Edge in Shropshire every July which I've managed to get to many times over the last dozen years or so.

I've no affiliation with it other than being a happy visitor.

 

[Bucephalas]

Womad is held in Malmesbury every July and is an eclectic mix of music from around the globe. Well worth a visit.

 

[munkiboi182]

latitude festival was pretty good last year. some great bushy stands and outdoor workmanship. there was a group that were woodturning on a sprung pole lathe. the music and live entertainment was pretty good too

 

[robin wood]

Well I always enjoy Glastonbury but I work the greenfields so up away from the mad camping fields.
I have done the Wilderness festival the last couple of years and enjoy it, bit posh hippy but fantastic environment.
Womad is fun, I really miss the edge of the little free festivals that went on in the early 80's.

 

[Originaltrav]

Kendal Calling is quite good

 

[robin wood]

Kendal Calling is quite good

They had a great line up last year, I was working otherwise would have gone.

 

[maddave]

We've got this coming up at work, 8th & 9th June

http://www.parklife.uk.com/

 

[joejoe]

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/cropredy/2013/lineup.shtml mate of mine recomends this

 

[Laurentius]

I am way too old for festivals in any case they aren't what they used to be

 

[redandshane]

Green man has been good in the past http://www.greenman.net/

BOB festival in Bath this Easter weekend Its a local International Punk fest

 

[Tengu]

Oh, dont be a wet blanket, Laurentus, I hate festivals and Im stewarding Stainsby (Folk music) for the third year running.

 

[TurboGirl]

I am way too old for festivals in any case they aren't what they used to be

There's ALWAYS room for mad old folk at festivals I enjoy Shambala in Northampton, camp in mad places rather than on the main field, have a fire and collect all the detritus of young humanity when they have a bad day/ news to enjoy/ stories to tell, have a bit of a sing / dance or just be a safe place to hide from the madness for a recharge

Festivals are so amazingly broad now, theres one for everything and good ones are very diverse little microcosms... I'm glad they've evolved but wish the price tag hadn't

I agree with Cropredy, got some freinds who go every year in a K9 camper and they reckon its amazing

 

[Nice65]

I really miss the edge of the little free festivals that went on in the early 80's.

Me too Robin, managed to make it to the last Stonehenge in '84 (I think). Little festivals used to occur around ancient rings and earthworks on the South Downs that were nothing more than a big campout with some live music and purveyors of various "wares". Good times.

 

[skate]

Regular festival goer since the mid seventies. Many Stonehenge ones which are quite hard to remember
Lately been doing Beautiful Days at Escot near Honiton in Devon. It's organized by the band The Levellers and is really good. http://www.beautifuldays.org/

 

[TurboGirl]

We deliver catering trailers to the main festies- creamfields is an expensive drugs fest but if we had to stay, bestival at lulworth cove/ isle of white seems like the favourite from outside inwards

Camp Bestival (Nr Lulworth Cove) Good for families 1-4th Aug which fits in well with the nearby moot!
Bestival (Isle of White) 5-8th Sept

 

[slingback]

I have always enjoyed these two

villagepumpfolkfestival


cambridgefolkfestival

 

[joejoe]

turbo girl are your friend in the k9 part of the macxxxxds by any chance

 

[TurboGirl]

turbo girl are your friend in the k9 part of the macxxxxds by any chance

No lovey, they're part of a fifties convoy.... they've been to cropredy for years in it though, it's a kinda sabbatical

 

[robin wood]

Me too Robin, managed to make it to the last Stonehenge in '84 (I think). Little festivals used to occur around ancient rings and earthworks on the South Downs that were nothing more than a big campout with some live music and purveyors of various "wares". Good times.

I was at that one too http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/henge-history-84.html
was planning to go in 85 hitching down when beanfield happened and ended up with the remnants at Westbury, we still had a good time.