How to Build a Festival

A small group of friends trying to understand how to build a great independent music business when we know nothing about the sector

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Episodes

Monday Nov 11, 2024

We’re back just in time for Glastonbury sale day, and we talk to Leo from On the Meadow Festival to hear all about the first edition of the event, and what he’s learned from putting on his own festival

Tuesday Sep 24, 2024

We were very lucky this week to have the chance to meet Oliver Jones, co-Festival Director of Deer Shed Festival, a superb and long running independent festival in Thirsk, in the north of England that starred HTBAF favourites CMAT, deadletter, Jessica Winter, James Ngonda and Personal Trainer in 2024. Oliver talks to us about what makes Deer Shed unique, the challenges facing independent festivals, and gives plenty of great advice and food for thought for those thinking about starting something new.

Monday Sep 09, 2024

Our unofficial End of the Road recap - the last summer festival of the year and there’s lots to talk about, including performances by Bonnie Prince Billy, CMAT, Malice K, Jalen Ngonda, Master Peace, Snooper, Brown Horse, Phosphorescent and more.
The team get the opportunity to DJ and meet some of our friends from the world of festivals, and take inspiration from the brilliant community of this festival

Tuesday Aug 27, 2024

The gang are excited for End of the Road, and run through what we’re looking forward to including Bonnie Prince Billy, Jess Williamson and Holiday Ghosts. We talk about the Oasis reunion and our days at All Points East over the Bank Holiday weekend

Episode 20 - Green Man Recap

Thursday Aug 22, 2024

Thursday Aug 22, 2024

Our Green Man run through - what we loved, how the festival is evolving and how we dodged the diablos. We talk about the Wishbone, the new Rising Stage, the brilliant artists we saw including Getdown Services, Big Thief, Sampha, Royel Otis and more…

Monday Aug 12, 2024

We preview our favourite festival, Green Man, before its 2024 edition. Then the gang recap Deer Shed Festival and Uptown Festival as well as discussing some of what we’ve been learning for our own festival.
We talk about the excellent recent new acts we’ve seen including deadletter, Tapir!, Man/Woman/Chainsaw and Ross admits Personal Trainer won’t win the Mercury Prize

Tuesday Aug 06, 2024

Episode 18 - We catch up with Festival Sounds Podcast to talk festival volunteering, test what would convince them to try a new festival, and talk about our favourite late season festivals including Green Man, Shambala, End of the Road and Boomtown

Friday Jul 26, 2024

Ross and Rach do a Quick Look ahead to Deer Shed , Truck and Tramlines all happening this weekend - one for your journey! And Ross gets confused about the Mercury list, but huge congrats to two podcast favourites, corto.alto and CMAT for their noms

Thursday Jul 11, 2024

Today Ross and Cat break down the Glastonbury experience from outside the fence, and then we get back to learning about how to go about starting one of our own as Rach and Cat speak with Leo from On the Meadow Festival, a brand new event taking place this year, about how he’s pulled it all together and how he hopes it will support independent music, as well as his festival experiences and why he’s looking to do it.

Wednesday Jun 19, 2024

Our last pre-Glastonbury pod, and we were chuffed to sit down with Andrew Lansley, a man who has played Glastonbury many times and also works with festivals all over the country to help build sustainability and accessibility into the delivery of the festival. We ask what it’s actually like to perform at Glasto, and dig in to some of the great initiatives going on at festivals including Cheltenham Festivals, Glastonbury, 2000 Trees and others to make a better experience for everyone.

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How to Build a Festival

Welcome to our new podcast, where three friends try and figure out what it takes to build a festival from the ground up with no contacts, no experience and no knowledge of how to do it. Join us on our journey as we learn how it’s done, and see if we think we can have a go ourselves. We’ll be talking to a wide range of guests, as well as just chatting about all the things that we love about independent music and festivals ourselves

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