How to Build a Festival

Episode 14 - Glastonbury 2024 Early Preview - Plus Taylor Swift, Isle of Wight, This Feeling and Coast

No we’re not going this year, but before we get too sad to talk about it, we get our early Glastonbury 2024 preview in early and share our tips and tricks for getting the best out of the week, as well as our personal lineup highlights. We run through other festivals coming up in June and talk about upcoming Taylor Swift and This Feeling events

Episode 13 - Game Changer: We interview Mark Davyd of the Venue Trust on the Grassroots Music Report

Mark Davyd, CEO of the Music Venue Trust joins to talk to us about what the cross party Culture, Media and Sport Committee report means for independent music in the UK and why it’s a potential game changer

Episode 12: Grassroots Music Report and Afflecks Palace

The gang recap their visit to OMeara to see Afflecks Palace, discuss what we learned from our interviews with Coast Festival and the band Soaked, and spend some time looking at the various initiatives picking up steam to support small venues and independent artists

How to Build a Festival - Episode 11: Interviewing Soaked

We talk to one of our favourite new bands @soakedband. Lead singer Brandon tells us about how it all began for the band, how best to support growing bands, and what it’s like trying to get on festival lineups - hope you enjoy this one as much as we did

How to Build a Festival Episode 10 - Chatting with Coast Festival

Cat and Ross sit down with the amazing John and Rachel from Coast Festival - who better to learn how to start a new festival from than the founders of the 2023 UK Festival Awards New Festival of the Year? We had an amazing time talking to John and Rachel!
P.S…. There’s a small amount of swearing in this one!

Episode 9 - Glasto and Green Man reactions

The gang react to the big lineup reveals of the last few weeks, discuss the greatest band since The Beatles (according to one of us anyway), and talk about some of our favourite new artists Find our playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0OYngeOPLJPAu9jeOXEP0M?si=2FzMxSm7SaCFejYgXNFEogπ=e-WDzrtJjxRLmJ

How to Build a Festival Episode 8: Green Man Predictions and Les Savy Fav

The team are back and Rachel returns! We look back on our Les Savy Fav experience and look at what the internet has to say about likely features on the imminent Green Man lineup
Find our 2024 playlist featuring all the artists we’ve talked about here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0OYngeOPLJPAu9jeOXEP0M?si=sSAjQPVCSDW34fkgdRPDCAπ=e-ZsBx7fPBQACv

How to Build a Festival Episode 7 - Back from hibernation just in time for lineups

We’re back! And it’s time to discuss festival lineups, new artists, and some festival cancellation news for 2024. What are we going to be doing for festivals this year?

How to Build a Festival Episode 6: What we loved in 2023

The team talk about their favourite and least favourite experiences of the 2023 live music year, including Rachel’s favourite toilets (of course), what we thought of Glastonbury’s new Car Henge area (we are not all in agreement) and most importantly who our favourite live acts of the year were

How to Build a Festival Episode 5: Genre chat and do we have a target audience?

Should festivals try and have a target audience, and what does that mean for us? And how does Cat feel about this week’s major festival lineup announcements?