About Festival Source

Honest, practical advice for UK music festivals, written by people who have been going to them since the early 2000s.

Festival Source is a guide to UK music festivals. Since 2017 we’ve been writing the advice we wish we’d had before our first festival: what to pack, where to pitch, how to keep your stuff safe and how to make the most of every minute, whether it’s your first weekend in a field or your fifteenth.

There are now around 100 guides on the site, covering festival tips, camping gear, festival fashion, festival FAQs, news and reviews, with plenty on Glastonbury and Boomtown along the way.

Who’s behind Festival Source

Editor and writer

Alexis Ray

Alexis has been going to festivals since the early 2000s, not just with a ticket but working and volunteering at them too. Alexis writes the guides and keeps them up to date, so the tips come from years of muddy fields, early starts and long walks back to the tent.

Web designer

Sarah Tamsin

Sarah designed, developed and built the Festival Source website using a completely custom WordPress theme. Before we started working with Sarah, this website was an absolute mess! Sarah loves festivals too, and many of the photos across this site were taken by her.

Head of Quality Control

Pickle

Pickle has never been to a festival and has no plans to: too loud, too muddy and nowhere near enough laps. Pickle supervises every update from the warmest spot on the desk, tests the keyboard without being asked and has slept through every deadline so far.

How we write our guides

From real festival experience. Our tips come from going to festivals, working at them and volunteering at them: the things you only learn by doing it, like which wellies survive a wet weekend and why you never pitch at the bottom of a hill.
Kept up to date. Festivals change their rules, prices and what you’re allowed to bring. We go back over our main guides every year, and the date at the top of each post shows when it was last updated.
Written for UK festivals. British weather, British campsites and British festival rules, from Glastonbury and Boomtown to smaller weekenders.
Honest about how the site is paid for. Some guides contain affiliate links, including Amazon. If you buy through one, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. It helps keep the site running, and it doesn’t decide what we recommend. You can read more in our terms of use.

Festival information can change at short notice, so for tickets, times and what you can take in, always check the festival’s own website before you go.

Not sure where to start?

These six guides cover the essentials, and they’re a good place to begin:

Get in touch

Spotted something out of date, got a festival question we haven’t answered yet, or have a media or brand enquiry? We’d love to hear from you.