After a sun-soaked weekend of magic in 2018, Arcadia are back at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to kick the summer off in formidable style on 4th-5th May 2019 Bank Holiday weekend. Racking up 4 award nominations, Arcadia London is a uniquely immersive festival where monumental performance, spellbinding spectacle and high octane dancefloors bring tens of thousands from all walks of life together on a giant wave of celebration. London will see the iconic Spider's only UK stop

Once again taking place in the idyllic woodlands of North Wales, Gottwood's loyal family will make the annual trip to celebrate what has made it such an unmissable rite of passage for any music lover over the last 10 years: its close-knit, family feel, intimate surroundings and free-spirited approach to programming and design. Hosting parties will be an array of names that have closely contributed to the Gottwood journey over the last ten years, as well as new recruits Red Li

After an acclaimed debut in their intimate new home of Peckham Rye Park, South London's festival of independent music, food and drink returns for the fourth edition on Bank Holiday Sunday 26th May 2019. They'll be programming another weighty lineup across the board featuring many more of the most esteemed and significant names in house, disco and good time party music, all alongside a well-considered local food and drink offering. In order to preserve the intimate nature of G

All Points East returns for a stellar second year to Tower Hamlet’s Victoria Park, following a sold-out 2018 debut that established a new and essential music event in central London. Tickets will go on general sale this Friday at 9am here. 2018’s inaugural year saw headline shows from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The National, LCD Soundsystem, Bjork, The xx and Catfish and the Bottlemen with an astronomical supporting line up across two weekends of award winning music. This

Having taken a year off in 2018 to recharge and plan for the future, Farmfest are delighted to announce that it will return as a 2 day and 3 night festival on the weekend of 26th to 28th July 2019. Alongside their critically acclaimed music & entertainment programme, 2019 will be dedicated to offering something fresh to their loyal customers, with some shiny new friends and additions to bring it back with a bang! Changes that are afoot include an extra night camping, a refres

Award-winning dance music festival Junction 2 returns for 2019, expanding across 2 consecutive days of music at Boston Manor Park on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th June 2019. Junction 2 is an underground electronic music festival organised by LWE. It merges natural beauty, green fields, rambling rivers, woodland pathways and hidden enclaves - all dominated by striking industrial features that make the site iconic. Hosted at Boston Manor Park, under the M4 motorway, which dominat

Legendary South London drum & bass label Hospital Records have been doing big things over the past few years with their ever-expanding Hospitality brand. We’ve seen events such as Hospitality in the Dock, Hospitality on the Beach and even the upcoming Halloween special, Hospitality at the Masked Ball, but today we’re with their original brainchild – Hospitality in the Park. Hospitality is the biggest Drum and Bass party London has to offer and amongst the acts on offer were s

We're now a week away from this year's Get Loud, the nationwide evening of incredible shows all taking place to raise awareness of the amazing work of Nordoff Robbins and Music Therapy to help change lives. Nordoff Robbins is the largest independent music therapy charity in the UK, dedicated to changing the lives of vulnerable and isolated people. We support thousands of people through our own centres and by working in partnership with a wide range of organisations including

If you haven’t been to Camp Wildfire before it’s a festival with a theme of an American summer camp, inspired by Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. During the day, you take part in a vast array of weird and wonderful activities and by night, you party! The setting is a perfect escape, situated at the beautiful Heritage Pine Forest in Kent, you’re surrounded by tall trees and forestry for the weekend. It’s set up ideally for adults to play and rekindle some of their child like w

South West Four –a regular staple of my pre-carnival diet! Now in its 15th year SW4 has become one of the biggest names in the London festival calendar and with good reason. Each year thousands descend upon Clapham Common and for one weekend only the yummy mummies are outnumbered! Once primarily a dance music festival, SW4 has embraced the ever increasing popularity of urban music, as evidenced by Dizzee Rascal appearing as the afternoon headline act on the Saturday. Alongsid

London’s biggest celebration of drum and bass culture, Hospitality In The Park, is set to make a triumphant return to Finsbury Park on Saturday 22nd September for the third consecutive year. To help celebrate, the award-winning (Best Festival at Drum & Bass Awards 2018) festival have enlisted some of the best DJs, producers, MCs and promoters in the business including headliners High Contrast (live), Danny Byrd, Foreign Beggars (live), LTJ Bukem, plus Metalheadz head honcho a

Elrow Town, this time situated in Stratford’s Olympic Park was a colourful delight of music, confetti and inflatables and has to be up there as one of my favourite festivals of 2018! The British weather was on our side (as it has been for most of the summer) as we smashed through the Sunday of the 2 day festival and the organisers did not disappoint! Despite the huge numbers of people expected at the festival (roughly 15,000) entry queue was fast moving and well organised and

Wilderness is now in it’s 8th year and with the incredible weather of late, everyone was buzzing to get away to the Cotswolds for the weekend. With no Glastonbury this year, we were keen to fill that Glasto shaped hole in our hearts and (spoiler alert) Wilderness truly delivered. This is one of the more chilled festivals of the summer, set among giant pine trees and ancient oaks in beautiful Oxfordshire. You can expect to camp in immaculate conditions and eat like a king for

Neverworld, the festival name immediately conjures up images of Peter Pan and his Lost Boys roaming Neverland fighting Captain Hook and that is no coincidence, as the old classic tale is a clear inspiration for this festival. Now a 5,000 capacity event set in the beautiful village of Hever in Kent, this festival has come a long way from its exceptionally humble beginnings of founder Lee Denny’s back garden! The journey from the car to campsite was far from the arduous task we

Being from the area, I love when festivals come to South East London – an occurrence that seems to be happening more and more in recent times – so when I heard that GALA was moving from Brockwell Park to Peckham Rye, basically on my doorstep, to say I was excited would be an understatement. Much like with all festivals on these shores, or in fact all conversations ever in the UK, the weather was the morning topic with the forecasts predicting a day full of rain and thundersto

What a way to bring in the August Bank Holiday! Ahead of South West Four this year, we pick out some of the artists we can't wait to see: Dizzee Rascal Welcome back, platinum selling grime superstar Dizzee Rascal after a standout debut set on the mainstage back in 2016. The prodigy embarked on a sold-out UK tour in winter 2017, which included his biggest London headline show in four years at the 02 Academy Brixton showcasing his new album ‘Raskit’. The album returns to the ro

Elrow Town London details an eye-popping array of captivating features, extensive food programming and crazy characters for Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th August 2018. Undoubtedly famed for its immersive production, elrow Town London will set the bar even higher for interactive, audiovisual festivals when it once again takes over the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The likes of Fatboy Slim, Shy FX, Paul Kalkbrenner, Solardo, Richy Ahmed, Idris Elba, The 2 Bears and a whole lot m

With just over two weeks to go until SouthWestFour celebrates its 15th-anniversary edition, all weekend and Sunday tickets are now sold out, with the last remaining tickets for the Saturday selling fast. Taking place at Clapham Common over bank holiday weekend on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th August, the event will see the likes of Marshmello (UK festival exclusive), Armin van Buuren, DJ EZ, Andy C, Dizzee Rascal, Craig David presents TS5, Hannah Wants, Sam Divine and more d

Saturday 11th August will see Artwork transform the sun drenched pasture of Three Mills Island into Art's House, A Lovely London Festival, for his biggest spectacle yet. It is with the utmost pleasure that we finally reveal the one and only DJHarvey will be joining Artwork as his special guest for what will be the most fun you can possibly have at a festival this summer. Known as ‘one of the last true party adventurers’, DJHarvey stands to go down in dance music history as on

You can get you tickets here. Wilderness is known for its stellar constellation of musical acts, world-class chefs, late-night Valley parties, and its talks and theatre programme. But alongside the revelry, it also curates a Wellbeing programme for The Sanctuary; a festival within a festival featuring some of the globe’s esteemed health, fitness and wellbeing professionals. Guests are encouraged to retreat from the revelry and recharge with explore a wealth of wellness experi