Ten Awesome...
Festivals
The cream of the crop when it comes to festivals in the UK and Europe. What better way to spend a weekend?
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1. Reading/Leeds The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in the UK. The events both happen on the bank holiday weekend in August (on Friday, Saturday, Sunday), and share the same bill. A guaranteed good tim
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2. Glastonbury The largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts.
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3. Glade An electronic dance music festival which originally started out as a stage at Glastonbury Festival, now successful in its own right. The annual festival takes place in England for three days in the summer.
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4. The Big Chill DJs like Norman Jay, Mr Scruff and Gilles Peterson are regular performers, and more dance music is heard, but the festival also provides a diverse range of music from folk and jazz to African and dub, as well as art, films, poetry, cabaret and gourmet foo
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5. Global Gathering An annual dance music festival on the last weekend of July each year at Long Marston Airfield, Warwickshire, England.
The festival has been running since 2001 and compares with the likes of Homelands, Creamfields and Gatecrasher's Summer Sound System.
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6. Gatecrasher Summer Soundsystem GCSSS offers various camping options for all budgets, a 24 hour market place with gourmet food stalls, ‘out of town shopping’ for the shopaholics plus an onsite diary room so that you can tell how great a time you’re having.
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7. Love Parade The Love Parade is a popular festival and parade that originated in 1989 in Berlin, Germany, and has now spread throughout the world. Berlin will always be the original and best though!
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8. Bestival The Bestival is a music festival on the Isle of Wight, England. It is held annually in late summer in a small country park called 'Robin Hill'. The event is organized by Rob da Bank and is an off-shoot of his Sunday Best record label and club nights.
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9. Creamfields Creamfields has established itself as a major UK dance festival, since it began life in 1998. Taking place at the Old Airfield in Liverpool on the August bank holiday weekend, this one day event is the closing party of the summer, with its ever-impressive
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10. Sanctuary Festival (Slammin Vinyl) Saturday one-day or Weekend Camping tickets available. Over 150 artists performing over 10 stages with the following supporting Brands: One Nation, Hardcore Heaven, Fantazia,
Slinky, Frantic and Bionic.
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