Leopallooza for 2019 with its same spirit that started it over a decade ago, a festival for the people not the corporations but music fans and party lovers

The very first Leopallooza, back in 2006, was meant to be a one-off. Lee Ellis (whose family farm still sits at the top of the festival site) was frustrated at the lack of decent local music venues at which his band - The Fires -  could play. With help from his friend Sam, that frustration was channelled into creating a live music party of their own, on Lee’s farm, with the help of Sam's hard-won tax rebate.

Lee knew his friends (and definitely his bandmates) had a tendency to get a bit loose when there was cider involved. So instead of having the party in his house, he decided to hold it in a little tree-filled hollow at the far end of the farm, where his mum and dad wouldn’t get disturbed by the music.