Glowglobes’s set perhaps best illustrates the festival’s vibe. I wandered into the solar-powered Small World Stage, lay down on a rug and watched a woman breast feed her baby as she sang, with a man strumming his guitar at her side. A few minutes later a couple of people in full Zebra costumes, and persona, [...]

The Secret Garden Party’s Cambridgeshire setting was magnificent. Driving through the fields of crops, we came to the small valley with a lake at its centre where Secret Garden Party makes its temporary home. Flags coloured the air across the main site, which is based on two gentle hills on either side of the lake. [...]

Secret location near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, July 24th-27th 2008 What with line-up controversies, cancellations and an overall sense of mediocrity befalling this summer’s festival season, it’s easy to become disillusioned. Complaints that they’re all the same are only overshadowed by the complaints that abound when organisers try something different, so what is one to do? You [...]