Beautiful Days festival has announced its main stage day splits.
It’s a great line with some form festival favourites, big names and hot new names.
With 95 per cent of the tickets now sold it’s time to grab the last few before they all go!
Tickets and details from here
The festival takes place on August 16/18 in Escott Park near Exeter.
Beautiful Days is the Levellers’ family music festival organised by DMF Music since its inception in 2003. Proudly independent, Beautiful Days has no sponsorship or funding. In 2023 we celebrated our 20th Anniversary with tickets selling out in April for the 17,500 capacity event – the capacity remains the same for 2024.
The 2024 line-up includes Richard Ashcroft, The Saw Doctors, Levellers, Richard Hawley, Fat Freddy’s Drop, The Damned, Toyah & Robert, Fisherman’s Friends, Hard-Fi, Inspiral Carpets, Badly Drawn Boy, Utah Saints, and many more. We have entertainment across 6 stages plus The Magic Teapot, Site Art installations, a huge Children’s Area, Walkabout Theatre, family camping, real ale bars from Otter Brewery, Folk Sessions and a vast selection of carefully chosen food & craft stalls. Plus, Kanga Wellbeing provide therapies and classes.
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Twenty years ago today, Sgt Peppers taught us how to play or – in this case – relocate the hallowed festival spirit to a field in Devon to create an event that was run by proper old school festival heads. A festival that took no shit or took no sponsorships and sold out every year on its own terms …
These may not be quite the lyrics from the Beatles classic but the timeline remains the same. Can it really be 20 years since I played the first one and fell off the stage and ended up with a black and blue bruised leg and a three month limp? Can it really be 20 years of being the compere, or can it really be 20 closing sets from the Levellers on the Sunday night…
There have been many highs and a couple of weather driven lows and lots of blood, sweat and tears of rain but Beautiful Days has survived on its own terms to become a key part of the festival summer experience. The mix of bands underlines its current place as one of the many constants at the heart of British pop culture, and 2023 boasted, arguably, the best lineup yet. A line up that is tantamount to the pulling power of the Levellers whose contemporaries now queue up to play the band’s festival whereas decades ago they would have seemed cultural gallow poles apart.’
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