Posted by DMFMusic on Mar 4, 2022 in News |

The line-up for the main stages at Beautiful Days 2022 includes Flogging Molly, The Specials, Levellers, The Dandy Warhols, Maximo Park, The Interrupters, Seasick Steve, Beth Orton, The Imagined Village, Billy Bragg and lots more……… Flogging Molly return to the festival to headline Friday night on the Main Stage. It’s been over two decades since the Celtic punk rockers burst onto the scene with their classic debut album Swagger. Armed with a fistful of rousing songs that are timeless in sentiment, their live shows are nothing short of legendary. Saturday headliners are The Specials – one of the most influential and important bands of all time. Changing the face of UK music in the 80’s with hit singles including ’Too Much Too Young’ and ‘Ghost Town’ they were at the forefront of the 2 Tone movement infusing ska with punk and homegrown political anxiety with wider issues. Studio album Encore, their first new music for 37 years, was released in 2019 and went straight to number 1 in the UK Official Charts. Festival founders Levellers will headline the Main Stage on the Sunday night to close the weekend with a hit-rich set followed by the traditional firework spectacular. The band will also open the festival with an acoustic set in The Big Top. Also announced for the Main Stage are alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols from Portland, Oregon whose 25 year career includes nine studio albums, two compilation albums and 27 singles including hits “Bohemian Like You” and ‘We Used To Be Friends’. Plus the brilliant Maximo Park play for the first time at Escot. From the very first song on their very first album, 2005’s A Certain Trigger – a multi-platinum selling, Mercury-nominated breakthrough in every sense – singer and lyricist Paul Smith pinned his socio-political colours to the mast. American blues guitarist and singer Seasick Steve who is known for his fantastically compelling live shows, plus two-tone-inspired, powerfully melodic, punk-fuelled LA band The Interrupters and Lars Frederiksen who is best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the punk band Rancid and has been a major player in the California punk scene since the 90’s. 2021 saw the release of Frederiksen’s...

Posted by DMFMusic on Feb 2, 2022 in News |

Tickets for the 2022 festival go on sale Friday 04 Feb at 10am Line-up & Theme announcement coming 04 March All ticket info here: https://www.beautifuldays.org/tickets/ Last year was without doubt the most challenging for everyone involved behind the scenes. From an infrastructure point of view, organising the festival was incredibly difficult – issues around transport, staffing, sourcing infrastructure and companies leaving the industry entirely resulted in a large number of changes in contractors for us. We successfully overcame the challenges and confirmed the infrastructure needed to successfully and safely stage the event. We would not have gone ahead if we didn’t believe this to be the case. The majority of changes worked out well and we welcomed various new teams to the festival who will now be with us in 2022. Sadly the one area we were let down with was the toilets. The situation did improve during the weekend but it was incredibly frustrating and we can only apologise. Part of the reason for a delay announcing the 2022 dates has been for us to ensure we are able to address this issue for 2022 before we go on sale. We wanted to make sure we had a new provider who can deliver the service we need. We have now engaged a new company and team who we’re looking forward to working with. All our teams are busy working on plans for 2022 and we look forward to sharing more news very soon! Hope you’ll join us this Summer...

Posted by DMFMusic on Feb 1, 2022 in News |

Oxfam recruit and manage all the Stewards for Beautiful Days Priority stewarding applications will open on 24th February for the 2022 festival season Public stewarding applications will open on 1st March For more information about the application process please check the Oxfam website and FAQs:...

Posted by DMFMusic on Jan 28, 2022 in News |

Thank you to everyone who attended, performed and worked at #BD2021 – it was an emotional and memorable weekend. Line-up for the SUPERHERO themed festival included Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls, James and Levellers plus Gary Numan, Imelda May, Hawkwind, Van Der Graaf Generator, The Lakeman Family Gathering, New Model Army and more

Posted by DMFMusic on Aug 27, 2021 in News |

Massive thanks to the lovely people who handed in wallets, car keys, phones and items we have been able to reunite with their very grateful owners Please email [email protected] if you lost something at the festival – lots of items still unclaimed that were found during the show and in the...