Ultimate summer festival guide 2025

It’s our favourite time of year… we’re dream­ing of fresh green fields, flags wav­ing in the gen­tle breeze, bands start­ing up on stage and a cosy tent to snug­gle into at night. Here’s our UK fes­ti­vals cal­en­dar with an empha­sis on inde­pen­dents – and many of them come with per­son­al rec­om­men­da­tions. On a sad note,…

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Festivals through summer and beyond

Fes­ti­val sea­son has moved into high gear. Sev­er­al have sold out (Green Man, Kendal Call­ing and Beau­ti­ful Days to name just three – and Ral­ly is close to sell­ing out) but there’s still over­all plen­ty of choice. Our list includes sev­er­al met­ro­pol­i­tan (non camp­ing) shindigs too, right into Sep­tem­ber. If you’re des­per­ate to attend a…

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Victorious festival ranked 3rd best in the UK

Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val has been ranked the third best fes­ti­val in the UK after data analy­sis con­duct­ed across the country’s fes­ti­val land­scape, with results show­ing Vic­to­ri­ous as one of the best val­ue-for-mon­ey fes­ti­vals in the UK Mul­ti-award-win­n­ing Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val (25/26/27 August 2023) – the UK’s biggest met­ro­pol­i­tan fes­ti­val – has been rat­ed as the third best fes­ti­val in the UK.  Training…

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Best festivals for 2023: the list

Ahh fes­ti­val sea­son! It’s not long now and we can’t wait. Here’s our fes­ti­val cal­en­dar for the sum­mer. All of those fea­tured still have lim­it­ed tick­ets avail­able. Peo­ple may be being a bit care­ful due the cost of liv­ing cri­sis but sales are nonethe­less healthy, so if there’s a fes­ti­val you’ve got your eye on,…

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Victorious Festival 2022 first wave

Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val makes its first announce­ments for sum­mer 2022. The open­ing day, Fri­day, will see The Stereo­phon­ics head­line. Their 12th album called Oochya! is set for release in the spring. Also Mancs rock­ers James are set to appear.  Sat­ur­day sees The Wom­bats and Sug­ababes appear, while on Sun­day it’s the turn of Noth­ing But Thieves…

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Back to the fields: festivals for 2021

Our fes­ti­val piece looks a lit­tle dif­fer­ent this year. It’s been a dif­fi­cult and rather har­row­ing task putting it togeth­er as many have decid­ed – and are still decid­ing – to can­cel, main­ly due to the lack of Gov­­ern­­ment-backed covid insur­ance. Oper­at­ing on a knife edge is every­day stuff for fes­ti­val organ­is­ers, but this is…

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