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How to Build a Festival

howtobuildafest

A small group of friends trying to understand how to build a great independent music business when we know nothing about the sector

music performing arts

All Episodes

53:03

Episode 29 - Rockaway Beach recap and our team new...

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2025/01/14

We recap and learn about Rockaway Beach with new guest Ali, and talk about our resolutions for 2025 and what we’re doing with the podcast this year

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34:36

Episode 28 - Recapping our favourite festivals and...

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2024/12/31

We run through our favourite music from 2024, our top gigs and what’s going on our playlist at the start of 2025.Thanks for listening this year, here’s to a great 2025 - we can’t wait to share what we’ve got in store

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53:52

Episode 27 - Chatting with Lakefest’s Lee Martin

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2024/12/20

Cat and Rach are joined by Lee Martin, who talks all about the journey of starting and growing a new festival over the course of over a decade, shares his advice for building our festival, and talks through his newly released book from the incredible story of developing Lakefesthttps://lakefest.co.uk/product/festival-of-love-and-pain/

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39:58

Episode 26 - Our Festival Manifesto

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2024/12/16

We talk through our manifesto for our festival, find some things we still need to agree on… and we’ve been nominated for an award! Vote for us here… https://s.surveyplanet.com/vyhvggua

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36:40

Episode 25 - Anniversary Edition! What we thought of...

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2024/11/26

The team get together to work through progress with planning our festival, what we’re learning and some of the forward steps and setbacks we’re experiencing. We also talk about some great gigs we’ve been to lately and what we thought of the new and kind of the same Glastonbury ticket process

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49:20

Episode 24 - Glastonbury ticketing changes and...

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2024/11/11

We’re back just in time for Glastonbury sale day, and we talk to Leo from On the Meadow Festival to hear all about the first edition of the event, and what he’s learned from putting on his own festival

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47:58

Episode 23 - Deer Shed Festival Director Oliver Jones...

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2024/09/24

We were very lucky this week to have the chance to meet Oliver Jones, co-Festival Director of Deer Shed Festival, a superb and long running independent festival in Thirsk, in the north of England that starred HTBAF favourites CMAT, deadletter, Jessica Winter, James Ngonda and Personal Trainer in 2024. Oliver talks to us about what makes Deer Shed unique, the challenges facing independent festivals, and gives plenty of great advice and food for thought for those thinking about starting something

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39:05

Episode 22 - End of the Road Recap - DJ Rach & Cat

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2024/09/09

Our unofficial End of the Road recap - the last summer festival of the year and there’s lots to talk about, including performances by Bonnie Prince Billy, CMAT, Malice K, Jalen Ngonda, Master Peace, Snooper, Brown Horse, Phosphorescent and more.The team get the opportunity to DJ and meet some of our friends from the world of festivals, and take inspiration from the brilliant community of this festival

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29:06

Episode 21 - End of the Road Unofficial Preview,...

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2024/08/27

The gang are excited for End of the Road, and run through what we’re looking forward to including Bonnie Prince Billy, Jess Williamson and Holiday Ghosts. We talk about the Oasis reunion and our days at All Points East over the Bank Holiday weekend

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31:02

Episode 20 - Green Man Recap

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2024/08/22

Our Green Man run through - what we loved, how the festival is evolving and how we dodged the diablos. We talk about the Wishbone, the new Rising Stage, the brilliant artists we saw including Getdown Services, Big Thief, Sampha, Royel Otis and more…

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41:54

Episode 19 - Green Man Festival preview, plus Deer...

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2024/08/12

We preview our favourite festival, Green Man, before its 2024 edition. Then the gang recap Deer Shed Festival and Uptown Festival as well as discussing some of what we’ve been learning for our own festival.We talk about the excellent recent new acts we’ve seen including deadletter, Tapir!, Man/Woman/Chainsaw and Ross admits Personal Trainer won’t win the Mercury Prize

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46:56

Episode 18 - Catch up with Festival Sounds on...

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2024/08/05

Episode 18 - We catch up with Festival Sounds Podcast to talk festival volunteering, test what would convince them to try a new festival, and talk about our favourite late season festivals including Green Man, Shambala, End of the Road and Boomtown

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Episode 17 - Bitesized Deer Shed preview, our first...

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2024/07/25

Ross and Rach do a Quick Look ahead to Deer Shed , Truck and Tramlines all happening this weekend - one for your journey! And Ross gets confused about the Mercury list, but huge congrats to two podcast favourites, corto.alto and CMAT for their noms

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51:59

Episode 16 - Glastonbury recap and our interview with...

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2024/07/11

Today Ross and Cat break down the Glastonbury experience from outside the fence, and then we get back to learning about how to go about starting one of our own as Rach and Cat speak with Leo from On the Meadow Festival, a brand new event taking place this year, about how he’s pulled it all together and how he hopes it will support independent music, as well as his festival experiences and why he’s looking to do it.

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40:25

Episode 15 - Playing at Glastonbury and building...

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2024/06/19

Our last pre-Glastonbury pod, and we were chuffed to sit down with Andrew Lansley, a man who has played Glastonbury many times and also works with festivals all over the country to help build sustainability and accessibility into the delivery of the festival. We ask what it’s actually like to perform at Glasto, and dig in to some of the great initiatives going on at festivals including Cheltenham Festivals, Glastonbury, 2000 Trees and others to make a better experience for everyone.

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41:24

Episode 14 - Glastonbury 2024 Early Preview - Plus...

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2024/06/11

No we’re not going this year, but before we get too sad to talk about it, we get our early Glastonbury 2024 preview in early and share our tips and tricks for getting the best out of the week, as well as our personal lineup highlights. We run through other festivals coming up in June and talk about upcoming Taylor Swift and This Feeling events

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35:26

Episode 13 - Game Changer: We interview Mark Davyd of...

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2024/05/30

Mark Davyd, CEO of the Music Venue Trust joins to talk to us about what the cross party Culture, Media and Sport Committee report means for independent music in the UK and why it’s a potential game changer

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46:42

Episode 12: Grassroots Music Report and Afflecks Palace

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2024/05/15

The gang recap their visit to OMeara to see Afflecks Palace, discuss what we learned from our interviews with Coast Festival and the band Soaked, and spend some time looking at the various initiatives picking up steam to support small venues and independent artists

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34:32

How to Build a Festival - Episode 11: Interviewing...

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2024/04/24

We talk to one of our favourite new bands @soakedband. Lead singer Brandon tells us about how it all began for the band, how best to support growing bands, and what it’s like trying to get on festival lineups - hope you enjoy this one as much as we did

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49:39

How to Build a Festival Episode 10 - Chatting with...

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2024/03/28

Cat and Ross sit down with the amazing John and Rachel from Coast Festival - who better to learn how to start a new festival from than the founders of the 2023 UK Festival Awards New Festival of the Year? We had an amazing time talking to John and Rachel!P.S…. There’s a small amount of swearing in this one!

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