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FeastyFest 2026 Review: Cheam Park's Best Weekend Yet
FeastyFest returned to Cheam Park on 12–13 September 2026 for two days of street food, tribute sets and old-school rave. From General Levy's Secret Stage takeover on Saturday to Sunday's Complete Madness singalongs, here's why Surrey's biggest food festival earns a full five stars.
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FeastyFest 2026 Review: Cheam Park's Best Weekend Yet
FeastyFest returned to Cheam Park on 12–13 September 2026 for two days of street food, tribute sets and old-school rave. From General Levy's Secret Stage takeover on Saturday to Sunday's Complete Madness singalongs, here's why Surrey's biggest food festival earns a full five stars.
Ben Robinson · Read
Rain Doesn’t Stop Play at Into the Wild
After a summer of glorious sunshine, the natural world desperately needed some rain. Hallelujah, we got it in bucketloads! We even had to wade through thick mud, that all-too-frequent rite of passage at British festivals. And yet, praise the lord, it hardly dampened proceedings a jot. What rain?
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Victorious Festival 2026: Highlights and Headliners
Victorious Festival rocked Southsea Common with three spectacular days of music, family entertainment and standout performances from Kasabian, The Black Keys and Richard Ashcroft.
Carousel PR · Read
Reading Festival 2026 review: £325 for a festival that broke
Six headliners, three secret sets and some of the best live music of the British summer. But Reading Festival 2026 also cancelled dance sets over crowding, scrapped BBC Introducing after 18 years and charged £325 to do it. UKFG wasn't on site — our full weekend verdict.
Grace · Read
Powerful Medicine is Good for the Planet (hopefully)
Back after a fallow year, and with a slightly busier and changed (for the better) layout, this meat-and-alcohol-free festival delivered a powerful punch.
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Y Not Festival 2026 Review: Bigger, Bolder and Better Than Ever?
Y Not Festival 2026 review featuring The Streets, Two Door Cinema Club, The Reytons, Kaiser Chiefs and more. Was this the festival's best year yet?
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Good Vibrations Society: Bye Bye Baby Fever Dream
While people come to this festival from all over, it somehow manages to retain an endearingly local feel. I felt at times – not least during Gentleman’s Dub Club’s habitually excellent set – as if I’d crashed a raucous private party. And who doesn’t enjoy doing that?
Neil Del Strother · Read
Herd Em Up! 7 Things We Loved About Beat-Herder 2026
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to spend four days dancing with sheep in a field while surviving on sunshine, cider and very little sleep, Beat-Herder 2026 once again provided the answer.
Duncan Whittaker | photo - Clare Viner · Read
Womad 2026 Smashes the Patriarchy (and much more)
If the mark of a top festival is leaving you wanting more, then Womad sits at the pinnacle. I almost wept at the thought of waiting a whole year until the next one as I left its beautiful new venue.
· ReadLewis Capaldi at BST Hyde Park: A comeback finally finished
Two years after Glastonbury nearly broke him, Lewis Capaldi turned 60,000 Hyde Park voices into the loudest therapy session London has ever heard.
Kay Flint · ReadTerminal V Festival 2026 Review
Terminal V 2026 was my first time attending, and overall I came away really impressed. I’d heard a lot about the festival before going, especially its reputation for big production and strong techno lineups, so I went in with high expectations...
Duncan · ReadMumford & Sons at BST Hyde Park 2026: A Homecoming
Ten years on from their last Hyde Park headline, Mumford & Sons returned to BST for a triumphant hometown show — complete with flames, fireworks and a jaw-dropping Shania Twain surprise.
Ben Robinson · Read
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