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2012 is strictly roots

Deep inside toast woods, we’re getting news of our summer diary and we’re delighted to be kicking off at Download, where the revered Osbourne will be conducting a Sunday night service with the Black Sabbath.

We are thrilled to be returning to Glade which has a dazzling array of artists and stages and we can’t wait to see the psychedelic village which has the originators of the Goan  psy-trance movement with the team that built the extraordinary  Ozora festival in Hungary .

We will be visiting Wilderness for the first time which is hugely exciting; masked balls, outdoor banquets, woodland foraging, food from the gods and all sensually delightful and innovative.

Two of the best family festivals have confirmed, Camp Bestival boasting a bonkers and brilliant line up which just gives you the best time. Just So which is a hugely inventive festival in the heart of the English woodlands which takes all ages on a theatrical, literary and musical journey.

On the far side of the summer, the party that is Bestival have confirmed.  The Isle of Wight has already asked for a bigger anchor to stop it drifing South after Rob da Bank announced the line up.

We don’t want France knocking on their ceiling with a broom now.

 

2011

Was a Great Year for the Independent Festivals

 (And the summer of 2012 is 3 months away and counting)

Imagination and creativity replaced headline acts and there were weekends full of magic, happenings and adventures.

There were the lake side banquets at Wilderness, the midnight feasts at Just So. The naked table tennis at Shambala defied gravity, the do it yourself pizzas in the mud ovens of Sunrise defied celebrity chefs.

The debating club at Secret Garden encouraged original thinking. The walled gardens of Greenman introduced the best local bands ever. Dressing up at the Bimble Inn raised sartorial standards to splendour. The Pocket Opera at Camp Bestival  and the swirling lights down the Rabbit Hole at Glastonbury wrap up our wonder list for last year.

We can’t wait for 2012 to bring us more.