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MFW's Alternative music festival guide and calendar will help you find your perfect fest! Check out the latest lineups and news from festival around the world.
Apr 25, 2024 · 2024 lineup: Rag 'N' Bone Man , Sugababes , Razorlight , Feeder , Afflecks Palace , Lottery Winners , Gruff Rhys , The Mysterines , The Royston Club, and more. In It Together is one of the biggest...
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- Latitude. Tickets: Ticketmaster. This year’s Latitude Festival returns on 21-24 July at Henham Park in Suffolk, with headline sets from Lewis Capaldi, Foals and Snow Patrol.
- Wilderness. Tickets: Ticketmaster. Wilderness Festival is taking place at Cornbury Park on 4-7 August, and will see headline sets from Years & Years, Jungle and Underworld.
- Lost Village. Tickets: Official website. The abandoned woodland village festival returns to Lincolnshire’s Norton Disney on 25-29 August. The 2022 edition will see headline sets from Jamie xx, Bonobo and Tom Misch.
- Sundown. Tickets: Ticketmaster and See Tickets. Sundown Festival takes place at Norfolk Showground on 2-4 September, with some of the biggest names in rap, grime, R&B and dance.
- The Wickerman
- Womad
- Cambridge Folk Festival
- Boomtown Fair
- Wilderness
- Shambala
- Victorious
- The Garden Party
- One Love
- OnBlackheath
The Wickerman Festival takes place in the far south-west of Scotland and has been running for over 13 years. It’s a family affair, inspired by the cult British horror film, The Wicker Man, which was set in the surrounding area. The festival is billed as “Scotland’s alternative music festival” and has been likened to a smaller version of Glastonbury...
Womad is a three-day festival at Charlton Park near Swindon, with a focus on global culture. Expect a menagerie of international experiences that include wellbeing treatments, food stalls, art, poetry and music. The lineup this year features acts as diverse as 80s hip-hop legends De La Soul, to dub and jungle mastermind ShyFX and Australian ska sup...
The clue’s really in the name with this one. Cambridge Folk Festival is the longest running festival of its kind in the world. Now celebrating its 51st year, the festival has grown from a tiny gathering to attracting the world’s most renowned folk stars. Past artists include Van Morrison, KT Tunstall and The Proclaimers, with sets this year from Pa...
Every August a mysterious mining town springs up on the outskirts of Winchester. Complete with winding streets, town square and village green, Boomtown is an homage to a gold rush era fayre, where all that glistens isn’t gold and things are not quite as they seem. Populated by beatniks, freaks and bohemians from across the country, this seriously a...
Described by The Guardianas “a place where art, intellectualism and fantastic gastronomy share equal billing with music,” Wilderness is a festival fit for the most famous university town in the world… That’s Oxford, by the way (sorry Cambridge). As well as internationally acclaimed artists such as Björk and Ben Howards, Wilderness offers a compelli...
One of the original and truly alternative music festivals, Shambala is a celebration of food, music and creativity that takes place every August bank holiday at a secret location in Northamptonshire. Featuring dazzling variety for its size, the festival boasts 200 diverse musical acts across 12 live stages, world-class cabaret, engaging workshops, ...
The only festival on our list with a sea view, Victorious takes place over the bank holiday weekend at Southsea, Portsmouth. It’s a great event that’s recently been shortlisted by the Festival Awards for the best family festival. The festival is a bit more “normal”, for want of a better word, than some of the other weird and wonderful events on thi...
So alternative it doesn’t even have a YouTube account! The Garden Party is two days of food, art and dance music in one of Britain’s biggest party cities, Leeds. The city’s clubs have teamed up with renowned Manchester ravers The Warehouse Project to bring you an August bank holiday to remember. Acts this year range across the spectrum of dance, fr...
The UK’s number one reggae and dub festival takes its name from the legendary concert organised by Bob Marley, which took place in Kingston, Jamaica, 1978. It was his attempt to unite two feuding political parties and he succeeded by getting the rival party leaders to join hands before the capacity crowd. The Winchester festival has been running fo...
Set on London’s most beautiful open grassland, OnBlackheath promises a celebration of music, food, magic, arts, entertainment and activities. This year features three sound stages where you can expect acts like Elbow, Madness and the Manic Street Preachers. There’s also a food village, a children’s playground and - most unique of all - a programme ...
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Jun 9, 2015 · 10 alternative UK festivals you should add to your summer hit list. Hostelworld Blog | Posted on June 9, 2015. Give Glastonbury a miss this year and head top one of the UK’s awesome lesser-known festivals, where you’ll find music, mischief and glitter galore.
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