Thank you and BD2020 tickets
THANK YOU to everyone who came to Beautiful Days 2019! What an amazing weekend NEXT YEAR’S DATES ARE 21 – 23 AUGUST 2020 Tickets for Beautiful Days 2020 will go on sale Friday 27 September at 10am Ticket prices and capacity are the same as 2019 HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!
read moreSite Map for BD2019
Here is the Site Map for BD2019 Gates open to the car parks from 12 noon on Thursday 15 August 2019 and then the site itself will open from 2pm (this includes all campsites including the accessible campsite). Gates are open from 2pm – 9pm Thursday, 9am – 9pm Friday, 10am – 9pm Saturday & 10am – 3pm Sunday. Please note the earlier time for gates closing on Sunday for entry AND re-entry. In 2019, we are taking the following steps to help us improve the speed and efficiency of getting traffic on site: 1. We are asking people not to come on site on Thursday and then try to leave straight away (eg to go shopping). No vehicles will be allowed to exit on Thursday (unless in an emergency) until 5pm. Go shopping first! 2. We will be opening a new gate for cars to enter site. You will still follow the Blue Route but cars will enter the site a quicker way and be separated from Campervan traffic....
read moreFood Caterers at BD2019
Here are the caterers you will find at #BD2019 – a huge variety of stall serving meaty, vegetarian & vegan meals plus snacks, desserts, juices and coffee Who will you be visiting first!? 😋 AFRICA KITCHEN – New this year flavours of Africa ARENA DONUTS – Doughnuts and coffee BLOOMBERRY JUICE – Fresh juice cycle-blenders BRAND RED – Real Devon ruby red burgers CAFÉ MAGRITTE COFFEE – Coffee & patisserie CAFÉ MAGRITTE PIZZA – Big fresh pizzas, by the Theatre CAFÉ ON THE HILL – The BIG Breakfast CALLUM’S COFFEE – Barista coffee CARIBBEAN HUT – Goat and sticky jerk chicken CASITE LUPE – Brazilian festival flavours CHEEZY VINYL – Cheese café near The Big Top CHURROS BROS – Spanish dipping doughnuts COFFEE CART – Bristol specialists CREPERIE – Generously-filled Gallic favourites CUBAN MELTING POT – South American fusion CURRY SHED – Authentic Indian vegetarian curries DONUT CITY – Fresh sweet and hot EAT LIKE A GREEK – Top Greek cuisine ELECTRIC LEMON – From freshly squeezed lemons FESENJAN (OPEN SESAME) – Rich Persian delights FOOD GROOVE – Vegetarian café near Little Big Top FRESH ORGANIC – Veggie burgers built to your taste GOODNESS GRACIOUS -The vegetarian festival classic GREENER PASTAS – Perfect pastas and paninis HUMMUS ON THE HILL – Great veg pots and more. JUST DESSERTS – Cakes and more cakes LALITAS – Vegan South Indian street food MAC N CHEESE – The classic served with style OTTER VALLEY ICES – Local ice cream OWENS COFFEE – Coffee and cakes PAELLARIA – An authentic Iberian treat – gluten-free to boot! PANINI – Grab n’ Go taste near The Big Top PASTY – Classic, tasty and filling PIE – Festival-favourite hand-raised pies PURA VIDA – Mexican vegetarian burritos and enchiladas ROAMING ROTISSERIE – Fresh succulent rotisserie chicken SEACOW – Classic Fish n Chips SEADOG – Japanese-inspired Sakana burgers SHAKEN UDDER-MILKSHAKES – A fave with the children SHEPHERDS – Sheeps’ milk ice cream from the van ST VALENTINES – Liquorice. The real stuff STRAWBERRY CHARIOT – Strawberries, cream teas TAMBAPANNI – The subtle flavours of Sri Lankan cuisine TASTE OF SPICE – Anglo-Indian classics THAI MANIA – New authentic Thai cuisine THYME + TIDE – Gourmet fish dishes from Cornwall TIBETAN KITCHEN – Momo Central in the main Arena TOASTY KITCHEN – Perfect toasties every time TRULY CRUMPTIOUS – Site-baked fresh crumpets TINY TEA TENT – Cup of tea with friends VANILLIBEAN – Sorbets and Ice creams WEDGES CAFÉ AL FRESCO – Tasty wedges and dips WHOLE HOG – The best hog-roast around WOKS HAPPENING – Far Eastern curries and noodles LADY BOWOMBLE – Delicious...
read more2019 TICKETS SOLD OUT
Nearly a month in advance, all tickets for Beautiful Days 2019 have sold out! No more tickets will be made available in advance or on the gate. We strongly advise you not to buy tickets from unofficial sources if you’ve missed out this year – particularly via social networks. Sadly not all posts and offers of tickets are genuine and we do not want people to fall victim to ticket scams. And to clarify – there are no etickets, they are all physical tickets for Beautiful Days and they will be posted out from 26 July onwards. Car Parking Passes will be available to buy until the week of the event from Levellers or See Tickets for those who already have tickets. We have teamed up with Twickets to allow ticket holders who can no longer attend the festival to sell them on to other fans at no more than the price they originally paid. You can trade tickets securely through their service, with payment and delivery all agreed upfront. Twickets is a fan-to-fan ticket resale platform where the price of tickets is never more than the original face value. http://beautifuldays.twickets.co.uk/...
read moreNew bands chosen for 3 stages
Very happy to announce the 3 bands chosen to play at #BD2019 by Levellers & DMF from applications via Studio 54 are……….. The Recks (for The Big Top) The Rezner (for The Little Big Top) Dead Naked Hippies (for The Bimble Inn) Alternative five-piece folk band The Recks from the isle of Sark, indie-rock 4 piece from the south-west The Rezner and art-rock trio Dead Naked Hippies also get 1 free days recording & mixing at Studio as well as a slot at the festival. HUGE thanks to Studio 54 for working with us on this and thanks again to everyone who applied, we were all overwhelmed by the number of...
read moreSpecial Guests & Bimble Inn
We’re very happy to be able to announce the special guests completing our Main Stage line-up for BD2019 are not one but TWO BANDS – LA punk rock band NOFX and Florida ska punk band LESS THAN JAKE We are also delighted to reveal the line-up for The Bimble Inn which will be hosting ska, reggae, folk, funk and skiffle from Age of Glass, Along Came Shifty, Bloco Branco, Bridges, Cable Street Collective, Funke And the Two Tone Baby, Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs, Huw Eddy & The Carnival, Jess McAllister, Mad Apple Circus, Malavita!, Reverend Ike’s Sunday Soul Service, Samantics, Stunflower, Ten Foot Wizard and The Belles....
read moreFiddler’s Arms Sessions
FIDDLER’S ARMS FOLK SESSIONS Curated by Seth Lakeman’s musician dad, Geoff, we are going to have pop-up folk/roots sessions in The Fiddler’s Arms next to The Big Top. There will be strumming, fiddling, twanging, hollering, bellow-squeezing and tune-swapping throughout the weekend starting on Friday lunchtime. Session times will be posted on a blackboard outside the bar. A hardcore of top session players will be on hand plus guest musicians from the stages and festival-goers are welcome to join in too – just find Geoff Lakeman at the Fiddler’s and sign...
read moreRefillable Pint Cups
We and Otter Brewery are delighted to announce refillable pint cups for #BD2019! For JUST £1 you will be able to buy a refillable pint cup from all of the bars at the festival when you buy a drink You can swap it for FREE for a clean one each time you buy a new drink, or keep it. At the end of the weekend – take it home if you want to, its yours These are the only options for pint cups, the new £1 (non-refundable) refillable/reusable pint cups are replacing single use plastic ones. The cups will only be available on site when you purchase a drink...
read moreRudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records
We are going to be screening ‘Rudeboy: The Story Of Trojan Records’ on Friday night in the Theatre Tent at Beautiful Days 2019 BMG recently commissioned Pulse Films to create a documentary on the history of the world’s most iconic and influential Jamaican music label, Trojan Records. The result is this critically acclaimed music documentary which combines compelling dramatisations of key chapters in the story, along with archive and interview footage. It tells the story of the label by placing it at the heart of a cultural revolution that unfolded on the council estates and dancefloors of late 60s and early 70s Britain, as immigration and innovation transformed popular music and culture. 🎬 Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/gEQdklk3LvE The film’s cast of legendary artists includes Lee “Scratch” Perry, Don Letts , Toots Hibbert, Ken Boothe, Roy Ellis, Pauline Black, Derrick Morgan and more, bringing the sounds, stars and stories to...
read moreSecond Announcement (29 March)
Headlining Saturday night in The Big Top are phenomenal Irish rock band Hothouse Flowers who combine traditional Irish music with influences from soul and rock. Their first album People in 1988 was the most successful debut album in Irish history. Also announced today to complete The Big Top line-up are former Bellowhead front-man and multiple BBC Folk Award winner Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, revered lyricist Thea Gilmore who releases new album Small World Turning in May, plus Queen Zee – one of the most eye-catching and engaging live acts in the UK right now, folk duo The Rails and singer-songwriter Beth Rowley. The Main Stage line-up is completed by the brilliant Sam Duckworth AKA Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, John Robb’s The Membranes with accompanying choir, folk/country band Nick Parker and the False Alarms, Cornwall based sibling duo Echo Town and Bristol’s Gaz Brookfield & The Company of Thieves. Plus there is a Special Guest who can’t be announced until the end of May. The final artists and DJs announced for The Little Big Top include Barry Ashworth, Reach Up, Lionstar, Subgiant, Mr Lexicon, Pattern Pusher plus DJs for the Silent Disco and Big Fish Little Fish family rave. See full line-up here https://www.beautifuldays.org/lineup/ The Theatre Tent The seated Theatre Tent has increased in size this year due to overwhelming demand for shows and will this year host stand-up comedy from John Shuttleworth, the enduringly brilliant comic creation of Graham Fellows who is well-loved from his Radio 4 series The Shuttleworths plus, award-winning comedian, writer and broadcaster Robin Ince. Shows will include Mr Bloom & his Band – a four-piece band of musical gardeners, fronted by CBeebies best known gardener, Mr Bloom. Plus Entertainingly Different present their ever popular early morning Rise ’n’ Shine sessions each day. Lucky Dog Productions present The Laurel and Hardy Cabaret – a bumper package of routines, songs and dances from The Boys’ 30-year career featuring some classic movie sequences along with some hilarious Music Hall sketches the pair toured in the 1940s and 50s. Clarke Andrew’s Tempest is an enchanting reinvention of Shakespeare’s play played out through song and physical theatre featuring songs written and performed live by internationally renowned folk singer Jim Causley alongside performance from actor Charlie Coldfield. One of the country’s best-known historians Dr Sam Willis & Professor James Daybell present Histories of the Unexpected – an exciting and fun new show that demonstrates how everything has a history and also that those histories link together in unexpected, and often rather magical, ways. The Theatre Tent also welcomes back favourites The Bo Diddlers and Le Navet Bete plus Circo Rum Ba Ba who present their new show Dress Circle. Noisy Oyster present aerial acrobatics and spectacular cycling stunts with the individually crafted one third life-size marionettes of The DaSilva Marionette Circus Troupe, plus Soap Soup Theatre combine beautiful puppetry, charmingly funny characters and magical music to present The Pixies’ Scarf, Scratchworks take on the Romans and the Patriarchy with their show Womans and the line-up is completed by the highly physical, intensely silly show Film De Mime and improvised comedy sketch group The RH Experience. Beautiful Days has never just been about the stages though – the festival has craft workshops, walkabout performances, site art installations, an array of food & crafts stalls and real ale bars run by local...
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