Can you smell it? The lukewarm beer. The stale sweat of two days with no shower. The excitement? Festival season is well and truly here – and we could not be more ready. We’ve copped the tickets, agonised over the lineups, bombarded the group chats with links to tents and cleaned out our bumbags. It is time.
At Time Out, we’d argue that Brits do festival season better than anywhere else. The vibes are top notch, the quality is great – and the amount of musical variety on offer in this one little island is absolutely mind-boggling. You can glamp at a boutique indie festival, get some guaranteed moshpit action at rock fest Download or rave until the early hours at a 24/7 dance marathon. You could discover the hottest Welsh-language music, boast about how you somehow got tickets to Glastonbury or even surf along to the set list in Cornwall.
Keen to join in the fun? We bet you are. Check out Time Out’s guide to the best UK music festivals for 2024. We’ll be updating this page with more as they are announced.
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