Whilst I’d like to think I am in the first flushes of my youth; the fact is that many might see me as a bit of a festival veteran. I’ve been attending festivals for nearly thirty years, albeit with a few fallow years around bringing up our little children. Even so, I’ve only tasted a tiny bit of what the UK festival scene has to offer, so I was excited to sample the wares of a new (to me) event, in the form of The Big Feastival. The Big Feastival is a festival held in The Cot
Five years of my attending and Kendal Calling continues to prove why it remains one of the UK's finest medium-sized festivals. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Lowther Estate, the 2026 edition delivered four days of exceptional music, great food and memorable moments, capped by what may well have been the greatest headline performance I've ever witnessed at the festival. Before the music even started, there were positive signs. For the first time in several years, ent