The UK Festival Podcast

06/07/2025

I'm so glad my interview could be put to such a beautiful use

26/06/2025

My friend Claires organisation Help Musicians is holding a mid season wellbeing session - if you're a professional musician and feeling a little overwhelmed with festival season might be worth checking it out!

07/06/2025

Beans on Toast is practically a permanent fixture on the UK festival scene - if you go to an event of a certain quality, you are practically guaranteed to find him playing on some lovely woodland stage at 3pm on Sunday.

In the episode we cover all storts, from about how the scene has evolved, to he and his mates plan to rob their local tesco, and even how a song he admits was "very very wrong" A song he admits was "very very wrong" somehow made its way into primary school curricula.

Listen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/LlGYlMJbtA8

Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vlfTptjajaZ9uYS1xCnwv?si=m3BS5n83SMumaVHvWalUfQ

Please like, share, and subscribe to me on all the platforms I'm active on! I know I haven't been the most podcast focused in recent months, but running the Uncanny Valley really took it out of me - I promise I'll try to do better! Love you all and I'll see you in a field soon!

26/05/2025

So funny story - while I was running around Download Festival making my video with Circular Camping, my dear little sister was also collared to do some film making with Hotbox Events - they interviewed her about what she and her boyfriend get up to stewarding with them, and while I might be biased, I think she did fantastically!

If you fancy checking it out - here is the link! https://www.hotboxevents.com/community/festival-staff-and-volunteer-interviews/2024/tigerlily-a-campsite-steward-volunteering-with-hotbox-events-at-download-festival/ #

If you haven't seen my epic hour long Download megaventure, you can catch it on my YouTube channel here!
https://youtu.be/KtpvrsxyEgk?si=J3JU87moS_S8ZURu

Watch Tigerlily's interview and hear their experience volunteering as a Campsite Steward with Hotbox Events at Download Festival!

15/04/2025

Sorry I've been quiet - The Uncanny Valley has kept me pretty occupied for a while. Got some really good stuff in the pipeline for you though - some crazy adventures and cool interviews. Anyway, it would be really handy if everyone could follow my other page Uncanny Events! All the stuff relating to my events will be on there!

23/02/2025

People always talk about holding a piss-up in a brewery… but this band actually did it!

Meet Callum and Dan, two parts of Nasty Fishmonger, a Bristol-based musical collective that’s rapidly shaking up the alternative festival scene. Don’t be put off by the name—rather than flogging dodgy trout, they’re delivering some of the most interesting Third Wave Folk Punk in the UK right now.

Last October, they sold out their first all-dayer, The Commoners Fair, and they’ve got even bigger ambitions for 2025. Not bad for a band that literally started as a scheme to get festival tickets.

Check out chat with them - we discuss the success of the Fair, and how it has impacted their band, why a little bit of roleplaying can be the perfect thing to elevate a musical event, and why they have various bugbears with other event organisers!

Check it Episode 18 of the UK Festival Podcast on Youtube or Spotify now!

https://youtu.be/fF_HteW89VQ?si=m9tVrDb8rjNCxU_s

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xIM94NwNDkDELekCHadqM?si=4951de6b61594e30