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Come as you are Into the Wild
There is something endearingly homespun about Into the Wild. It’s this that makes it such a charming and enjoyable festival. Indeed, after a particularly stressful and convoluted drive to its rural idyll Sussex site
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Come as you are Into the Wild
There is something endearingly homespun about Into the Wild. It’s this that makes it such a charming and enjoyable festival. Indeed, after a particularly stressful and convoluted drive to its rural idyll Sussex site
Neil del Strother · Read
Nature and Heart is Healing Medicine
Festivals have personality. Some are boisterous, some a little restrained, and some are just beautifully chilled. The Medicine Festival is very much in the latter camp.
Neil del Strother · Read
Womad serves up heady mix of war, wet and wonder
Every year Womad reliably serves up an embarrassment of musical riches. There’s a seemingly inexhaustible list of extraordinary and – to me at least...
Neil del Strother · Read
Triumph in the Heart of Downland
Let’s start off with the women. A healthy percentage of the acts over the Love Supreme weekend – including the excellent main stage headliners on the Saturday and Sunday nights
Neil del Strother · ReadFrom Wealden Literary Festival with Love
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine Boomtown
Neil del Strother · Read
Black Deer brings Mississippi Delta to rural Sussex
Seventy-one year old Chrissie Hynde was anticipating a younger audience. She told us this twice so she must have meant it.
Neil del Strother · Read
How the Light Gets In Illuminates the Dark Recesses of My Brain
Sometimes it’s easier to define something by what it is not: How The Light Gets In is not Boomtown. In fact it’s just about as diametrically opposite to Boomtown as it’s possible to be.
Neil del Strother www.neildelstrother.co.uk · Read
Feasty Fest 2022 Review
Our second year attending Feasty Fest with warm memories from the previous year we were hopeful that 2022 would live up to the previous.
Ben Robinson · Read
Into The Wild 2022 - Patchouli Oil Running Around My Brain
Into the Wild is a warm-hearted festival of the old skool: no corporates, plenty of tie-dye and diaphanous robes on display, friendly security, more Indian knick-knacks on sale than you can shake a stick at, and no booze or drugs.
Neil del Strother · Read
8 Things We Loved About Beat-Herder 2022
Beat-Herder is a magical oasis of pleasure seeking mayhem, hedonistic self-gratification and electronic debauchery. Nestled away slap bang on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border...
Duncan Whittaker · Read
Middle-Aged Womad Offers Embarrassment of Riches
Womad is the most magical of festivals. Forty years old, it still maintains an innocence, humility and sense of wonder that few, if any, other festivals can rival
Neil del Strother · Read
Retro in the Park 2022
One of the biggest nights on the East Lancashire “getting on it big time” scene has to be Burnley’s Retro in the Park. Last year’s event was a monster of a success – Roger Sanchez
Duncan Whittaker · Read
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