How to Build a Festival

The gang celebrate the success of the first ever Echo 7 festival, and talk about how it all felt. This one is excitable and we focus on the emotion of it all, the excitement of seeing it all come together after two years of trying to figure out how to do it!
A huge thankyou to everyone who worked with us, helped us in advance and on the day, and who pushed us to see it through!
If you came along - firstly a huge thankyou - secondly please fill in our very quick feedback form so we can learn and improve, which you can find here: https://forms.gle/uEbVsFJJp6qJp5Xw6

We get together for a final preview of Echo 17 before our very first festival on Saturday 20th September! We talk lineup, activities, timings and what we’re excited and worried about! Join us as our journey gets a little closer to reality
Get your tickets at www.echo17.co.uk
Check out our lineup playlist here
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4O3OzxatvJ1qdMaVdEfj0t?si=c8aLp8BTSJ6rEFd4XlX1lw&pi=wKl_FoP7SS6Vd

Echo 17 is finally here on the 20th September and we are joined by brilliant main stage artists Kimmi Watson, founder of She17, and by Muriel and Lucy of More Peas. We talk about their music, their festival memories and the work of She17

It’s End of the Road and that means back to back episodes! We go through our picks for the week, compare them to the famous Sally’s Notes, and chat with End of the Road lineup mainstay Ronan Leonard…. Plus a super exciting announcement

Cat and Rach work through where we’re at with preparations now we’ve launched our website and lineup! We recap a very hot Green Man, one of the best lineups of 2025

Danny Hagan co-founded Green Man Festival in 2003 and 21 years later launched The Wake in 2024. Now coming into its second sold out year, we chat to Danny about the experience both festivals, the difference starting them two decades apart and what made he and his partner Jo come back to start a second festival last year.

Rach and Cat check in with Lakefest Owner Lee Martin ahead of the 2025 edition of the brilliant family festival coming up this weekend.
We talk about the lineup, the frantic nature of the weeks building up to the event and the wonderful ‘Road to Lakefest’ initiative

Our short and sweet announcement episode... The one we’ve been working towards for the last 41 episodes! Announcing our name, date, venues and pricing structure as well as what happens next!
Join us on our journey!

We team up with Lisa and Uncouth Brett to preview this year’s Truck Festival before looking at the 2025 edition of Deer Shed ahead of one of the busiest weekends of the festival summer
Get in touch with any tips for either of these awesome festivals!

We follow up with Damian, Gina and Jack on this year’s Glastonbury festival and talk all about it. Relive the last Glasto for a couple of years here with your favourite OOF mods!