So sun is finally peeking through the clouds which means it is fast approaching our favourite time of year – festival season! Her Campus is here to bring you the guide to the loudest and liveliest festivals throughout the UK and across Europe this summer.
Reading:
Reading Festival is the world’s oldest popular music festival still in existence, and yet it doesn’t seem to be slowing down coming into its 43rd year! Rock, alternative, indie, punk, metal, with big names, breaking acts, and exclusive performances Reading Festival has it all. While there’s not much nightlife at Reading due to those pesky noise restraints imposed at midnight, the line up year after year more than makes up for this!
Make sure to watch out for all the up and coming bands on the NME stage; a stage that has launched many a career in previous years.
Headliners: Green Day, Eminem, Biffy Clyro.
Dates: Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th August 2013.
Price: A weekend ticket will set you back £202.50 and a day ticket £90.
Leeds:
Winner of the ‘Best Festival Award 2013’ and sharing the same bill as Reading, Leeds is an unmissable event this year! With Biffy, Eminem and Green Day headlining over the weekend, and a few names still to announce, jealousy rages among those who have yet to secure their tickets!
Keep an eye out for the two new stages to be introduced this year; the BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage and the BBC Radio 1Xtra Stage!
Headliners: Green Day, Eminem, Biffy Clyro.
Dates: Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th August 2013.
Price: A ticket for the weekend will cost you £202.50 while a day ticket is £90.
Bestival:
Like a mini Glastonbury, the eclectic vibe at Bestival is definitely an item for any music lover’s bucket list, especially huge this year as Bestival will be turning 10 years old!
With a big emphasis on being green, Bestival has a more family orientated feel than either Reading or Leeds, but it is not to say it is any less of an experience.
Make sure you don’t miss the fancy dress parades on the Sunday, a highlight of the weekend!
Headliners: Snoop Dogg, Wu Tang Clan, Elton John, The Flaming Lips .
Dates: Thursday 5th – Sunday 8th September 2013.
Price: No day tickets are on sale, but student tickets with entry from Thursday 5th September will set you back £180.
Sziget (Hungary):
Sziget Festival is the proud winner of the ‘2011 Best European Major Festival’ award and known as one of the biggest multicultural events of Europe, starting in 1993 and already celebrating its 21st edition.
Sziget is not just about great music, as it offers several other cultural programs, like theatre, circus, and exhibitions. This is the only big festival where you will find a Roma tent and even a gay-lesbian venue. And we shouldn’t forget about the fact that the festival is in the middle of Budapest, a touristic city with a lively cultural scene, beautiful historic buildings, Turkish spas and special ’ruin pubs’.
Headliners: Blur, Dizzie Rascal, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (and more TBC!)
Dates: Monday 5th – Monday 12th August 2013.
Price: £169 for a weekend ticket, £35 for a day ticket.
Outlook (Croatia):
Outlook Festival is the largest bass music and sound system culture festival in Europe, featuring the biggest names from the most vibrant and cutting edge dance scenes around.
When we talk about bass music we’re not talking about the commercial version currently being sold to the children nowadays, we mean underground dancefloor music, whether it be house, techno, dubstep, reggae, dub, hiphop, garage, grime or electronica.
Approaching its 6th year this year, Outlook has grown rapidly and is going from strength to strength!
Headliners: Talib Kweli, Jay Electronica, Goldie, Shy, Benji B, DJ EZ, Enei, XXYYXX.
Dates: Thursday 29th August – Monday 2nd September 2013.
Price: £135 for a standard weekend ticket.