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FAQs about How to Build a Festival:How many episodes does How to Build a Festival have?The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.
May 15, 2024Episode 12: Grassroots Music Report and Afflecks PalaceThe 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...more47minPlay
April 24, 2024How to Build a Festival - Episode 11: Interviewing SoakedWe 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...more35minPlay
March 28, 2024How to Build a Festival Episode 10 - Chatting with Coast FestivalCat 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!...more50minPlay
March 21, 2024Episode 9 - Glasto and Green Man reactionsThe gang react to the big lineup reveals of the last few weeks, discuss the greatest band since The Beatles (according to one of us anyway), and talk about some of our favourite new artists Find our playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0OYngeOPLJPAu9jeOXEP0M?si=2FzMxSm7SaCFejYgXNFEogπ=e-WDzrtJjxRLmJ...more30minPlay
February 28, 2024How to Build a Festival Episode 8: Green Man Predictions and Les Savy FavThe team are back and Rachel returns! We look back on our Les Savy Fav experience and look at what the internet has to say about likely features on the imminent Green Man lineup Find our 2024 playlist featuring all the artists we’ve talked about here:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0OYngeOPLJPAu9jeOXEP0M?si=sSAjQPVCSDW34fkgdRPDCAπ=e-ZsBx7fPBQACv...more31minPlay
February 21, 2024How to Build a Festival Episode 7 - Back from hibernation just in time for lineupsWe’re back! And it’s time to discuss festival lineups, new artists, and some festival cancellation news for 2024. What are we going to be doing for festivals this year?...more35minPlay
January 02, 2024How to Build a Festival Episode 6: What we loved in 2023The team talk about their favourite and least favourite experiences of the 2023 live music year, including Rachel’s favourite toilets (of course), what we thought of Glastonbury’s new Car Henge area (we are not all in agreement) and most importantly who our favourite live acts of the year were...more37minPlay
December 21, 2023How to Build a Festival Episode 5: Genre chat and do we have a target audience?Should festivals try and have a target audience, and what does that mean for us? And how does Cat feel about this week’s major festival lineup announcements?...more36minPlay
December 13, 2023How to Build a Festival Episode 4: What music will we have, what are our favourite live songs, and Starsailor’s very polite audienceWe talk about a very polite Starsailor concert and try to make some decisions about the music we’re going to have at our festival. We also try and establish our favourite live songs....more29minPlay
December 07, 2023Episode 3: Glasto ticket reveal and next steps for our festivalThe gang talk about their glasto ticket day, whether there should be a lottery for tickets, and the first things we need to work out for getting our festival up and running...more32minPlay
FAQs about How to Build a Festival:How many episodes does How to Build a Festival have?The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.