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Want to play our very first festival in September?

Let us know here - it’ll be north London on the 20th September, and we’ve been talking all about our journey to get it started on our podcast, How to Build a Festival

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20th September 2025…

If you’ve been following our journey to start our own festival… we have a date!

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Always one of my favourite parts of the festival and it’s as good as ever

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Episode 33 - Supporting the Libertines and major festival bookings - chatting with Soaked How to Build a Festival · Episode

New episode today talking to Soaked about their journey as an independent artist trying to grow in 2025, including supporting the Libertines and getting their first major festival bookings

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@howtobuildafest.bsky.social on the silent disco at @endoftheroadfestival.com 2024 - a highlight of the festival year

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Artificial Light alphabet · Artificial Light · Song · 2024

Discovery of the day researching the @greenmanfest.bsky.social lineup - the brilliant alphabet

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NW1 Mên An Tol · NW1 · Song · 2024

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Our favourite new band of the moment - definitely one to watch @menantollondon.bsky.social

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Festival season is coming… glasto stage lineup releases mark another milestone in the countdown

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Episode 32 - Glastonbury and Green Man lineup reactions and trying to name our festival Podcast Episode · How to Build a Festival · 10/03/2025 · 42m

New episode of our podcast… where we try and figure out what to call ourselves and talk about various lineup releases from @greenmanfest.bsky.social and @glastonbury.bsky.social

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Episode 31 - Reflections from Festival Congress 2025 How to Build a Festival · Episode

A new pod from us recapping on the AIF Festival Congress - catch it here!

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Episode 30 - Lilo talk us through what makes a great festival for artists How to Build a Festival · Episode

A new episode in interview with lilo, where we discuss their favourite festivals to play, how much they want to play @endoftheroadfestival.com and what gender balance on festival lineups

Find it wherever you get your podcasts!

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Thanks so much for giving it a listen! I’ve dropped you an email from the podcast account - would be great to have a chat!

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Episode 29 - Rockaway Beach recap and our team new year resolutions Podcast Episode · How to Build a Festival · 14/01/2025 · 53m

This week we recapped @rockawaybeach.bsky.social and talked about our goals for 2025 - feedback and ideas welcome for how we can get our festival up and running and how we can be useful to independent artists and festivals

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Amazing I’ll drop you an email! Look forward to catching up!

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On lower league football… My wife and I go down to Walthamstow games but I’m a Woking fan by birth - luckily still a few leagues apart!

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We’re trying to get a multi venue event going in the area - trying to set dates at the mo and also test the water of whether it’s something that would work here.

Would love your thoughts on it and also of course if it’s something you’d want to play at!

We’ve been doing a podcast too about the idea

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Very achievable! We’d love to have a chat - we’re looking to put on a new small music festival in Walthamstow AND we’re Isthmian league fans!

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Great thankyou really appreciate it - will drop you a note! We’re in London so different area but similar principle I think

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Going to see a random artist you’ve never heard of every month at your local venue

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A Neil Young Glastonbury shuffle is epic content to start the year

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My 2024 favourites…

Follow us for more this year as we try and build toward launching our own festival in 2025

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Happy new year to you too! This looks great; we’re looking to do something similar - would love to find out more!

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Episode 28 - Recapping our favourite festivals and gigs of 2024 How to Build a Festival · Episode

Our recap of everything we loved in 2024 - if you haven’t tried our podcast yet… give us a go!

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A year ago we started a podcast looking charting our efforts to start a new independent festival in a world where the UK lost over 70 festivals in 2024. It’s as tough as we knew it would be, but we are hopeful that 2025 will see us get our first event launched

Thanks for joining our journey so far!

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Episode 27 - Chatting with Lakefest’s Lee Martin How to Build a Festival · Episode

This week we catch up with Lakefest’s Lee Martin on all the highs and lows of growing an independent festival - huge thanks to Lee for spending time with us and sharing his incredible journey

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Episode 26 - Our Festival Manifesto How to Build a Festival · Episode

How much can we achieve in year 1? We debated our festival manifesto in our brand new episode here - also vote for us as music podcast of the year please! Link in show notes to that!

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@bryansgunn.bsky.social can you do ‘a coming together’ please… mainly used in cases where the forward has been shot but the commentators are too lazy to look at the replay

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This is super exciting for us to get a nomination in our first year! And we didn’t even nominate ourselves (thankyou to whoever did)!!

Please vote for us here….

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We're encouraged to hear the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy acknowledging the tremendous impact of the crisis that has been affecting music venues for several years.

We hope new Gov't measures are sufficient to support the sector and reverse years of damage.

@musicvenuetrust.bsky.social

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These nonsensical Spotify Wrapped genres are making me feel nostalgic for the good old days when it was insisting Chamber Psych was everyone's favourite genre

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