summer Festivals and music festivals

 

UK FESTIVALS

 

Big Green Gathering

Where: Mendip Hills, Cheddar
When: July/August
Web Address: www.big-green-gathering.com
The festival for the greenies. A 4 day festival encompassing all aspects of saving the planet , knitting your own socks and weaving your own sandals. Local produce, sustainable homes and of course the obligatory music and dancing.

Burning Clocks

Where: Brighton Prominade
When: 21st December
Web Address: www.burningtheclocks.co.uk
If you’re are a bit sick and tired of the commercialism of Christmas. With over 1000 participants and 20,000 spectators this festival is different in that the participants build their own lanterns out of willow and paper and parade through the streets of Brighton to a beach where they cast their lanterns into the fire.

Cheese Rolling Gloucestershire

When: May
Where: Coopers Hill near Brockworth. Gloucestershire
Web Address: www.cheese-rolling.co.uk
Cheese rolling mayhem as contestants try to beat a rolling cheese down a 45° slope. If you’re going to give it a go make sure your medical insurance covers it!

Glastonbury Music Festival

When: Late June
Where: Galstonbury
Web Address: www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
Probably the most Iconic rock festival on the planet. If you have tickets, you lucky bx°#xrds. If not, they are like the preverbal gold dust, especially with today’s security features. Good luck!

British Lawn Mower Racing 12hr Endurance Race

When: August
Where: Near Pulborough Sussex
Web Address: www.blmra.co.uk
Every petrol heads fantasy! ( well maybe). The ultimate for blokes in sheds. In august each years the British Lawn Mower Racing association hosts the annual 12 hour lawnmower endurance race. Guaranteed thrills and spill and lots of beardy type people.

One Love Festival

When: August
Where: Herstmonceux, East Sussex
Web Address: www.onelovefestival.co.uk
If Bobs your man and strange cigarettes are the go this and intoxicating tribute to Bob Marley‘s one and only 1978 One love Concert. 4 Nights and days of intensive happy, swaying and hip hurting reggae.

Summer Solstice at Stonehenge

When: June 20-21
Where: Stonehenge
Web Address: www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/stonehenge
Free One night festival. Your chance to unleash your inner druid to celebrate the longest day in the year.

World Strip Poker Championships

When: Sometime This years. Watch this Space
Where: Usually the Cafè Royal London
Web address: www.strippoker.paddypower.com
Strip Poker at its finest. 2000 willing and able strip poker players battle it out for charity. Check the website for the latest details

Bath Fringe Festival

When: Late May- June
Where: Bath
Web Address: www.bathfringe.co.uk
England’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Specialising in arts, music, comedy theatre and street performing.

Guy Fawkes Night

Where: Lewes, East Sussex
When: November 5th
Web Address: www.lewes.gov.uk/leisure/1774.asp
The biggest Guys Fawkes celebration or memorial depending on what side of the religious divide you are on. The largest Guys Fawkes night takes place in Lewes. It begins with a torchlight procession to 6 different bonfire sights and cumulates in a massive fireworks display.

Reading Festival and Leeds Festival

Where: Reading, SW England or Leeds, NE England

When: August

Web address: www.readingfestival.com, www.leedsfestival.com

A huge music festival bring the best acts from all around the globe to camp, drink and listen to some cracking tunes and beats! Check out hte websites for lineups - the Spaceship depot is only 30 minutes drive from Reading so you can hire a Spaceship for a festival has never been easier!