July’s Festivals!

Larmer Tree — £184 (5 days), £150 (4) or £120 (3)
July 14–18, Sal­is­bury, Wilt­shire
Hardly cheap and hardly large but Larmer tree is renowned for it’s relaxed atmos­phere. If you live in the coun­try down south then I’m sure you will know of Larmer tree. Martha Wain­right, Rus­sell Howard and Rich Hall will be there.

Lat­ti­tude Fes­ti­val — £165 or £65 for a day
15–18 July, Suf­folk
cer­tainly one of our favourite fes­ti­vals, the line up’s fairly good, sport­ing Flo­rence & the Machine, Mum­ford & Sons and the Macabees but with some fes­ti­vals the line up just doesn’t mat­ter. So long as you have a friend or two to come with you, at fes­ti­vals like Lat­ti­tude, Besti­val and the Big Chill the atmos­phere is out of this world. It gen­uinely feels like a whole another place, men in tutus, music all day and all night and funny coloured sheep as what you will find at Lattitude.

Guil­fest – £100 or £40 per day
16–18 July, Guil­ford, Sur­rey
Once voted the best fam­ily fes­ti­val, Guil­fest used to be renowned for one to take the kids to, but as time passes it seems to be one to take the par­ents too, or not if you so wish. N-Dubz, tin­nie Tem­pah & chase and Sta­tus are per­form­ing as well as a few other’s for your par­ents. This is, if you haven’t already spot­ted it, a prime oppor­tu­nity for “Mummy and Daddy” to buy you tick­ets, just tell them that there’s a 70’s disco.

Love­box – £45, £80 or £99 depend­ing on how many days
16–18 July, Vic­to­ria Park, Lon­don
Not bad on first impres­sions, not only the con­vien­ince of it being sit­u­ated in Lon­don but with Dizee, Chase & Sta­tus, Noisettes, Bom­bay Bici­cyle cluba dn Paloma faith, if you’re around and you have the cash it’s worth going to.

Global Gath­er­ing — £120
July 30 – 31, Strat­ford upon avon
If you like dance music then you don’t really get line­ups bet­ter than Faith­less, Dizzee, 2manydj’s, chase & sta­tus, Armin van Bur­ren, Carl cox, Eric Prydz, LCD Soundsys­tem, Sub Focus and Steve Aoki. I could go on for­ever, if you don’t know many of them then you will just have to trust us when we say that they are some of the best dance dj’s and acts in the world. Know onto the Dub­step and grim­ier lot; James Zabiela, Adam Beyer, Sub focus, Joris Voorn, Andy C, Fake Bloood, Kissy Sell out………………

Camp Besti­val — £155
July 30 – August 1, Lul­worth Cas­tle, Dorset
The fam­ily ver­sion of Besti­val, sit­u­ated in Dorset’s beat­u­ful coun­try boasts many acts from it’s larger par­ent. The line up is more suited towards teenagers than the typ­i­cal “fam­ily” stereo type. Acts include Calvin Har­ris, Chip­munk, Annie Mac, Jak­wob, Jack Beats, Tin­nie Tem­pah, Ellie Gould­ing and Tim Minchin.