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Review5/10Boomtown 2017: Pirates, Music and a Piggyback Mosh Pit
The one thing I did not want to hear at Boomtown Fair 2017 was the ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ chant. A rally cry for a wealth of indigent students, it typified most...
Review4/10Boomtown 2015
Chapter 7: The Palace Has Risen It’s safe to say there is no town quite like Boomtown in the UK right now. It is the most everythingist festival. It’s the best
Review5/10Boomtown Fair 2013. Right! Where to start…
Boomtown 2013 – Matterley Estate Boomtown Fair 2013. Right! Where to start… I met a couple of quite reserved doctors on the shuttle bus from Winchester
Review5/10Boomtown Fair 2012
So I was told of a strange hippie festival somewhere in middle England where the love runs free and no one ever sleeps. I went along this year to what was liter
Review4/10Boomtown Fair-A boomin good time
Everyone has their own preconceptions when the word ‘fair’ is uttered. Nostalgic memories of sugary treats, adrenaline inducing rides and a sea of colours come
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From Wealden Literary Festival with Love
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine Boomtown
Review4/10How 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.
Review4/1080s festival Rewind
80s festival Rewind went off with a boom this weekend – and it wasn’t the fireworks – it was the Boomtown Rat himself, Sir Bob Geldof! Making an expletive-stre


