The Beat-herder Festival

A COUPLE OF REVIEWS FROM 2009...

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Overall - 9/10 

Beat-Herder Festival looks like a medieval circus; flags wafting in the breeze nestled in the shadow of Pendle Hill. And as brightly coloured people tumble by, it feels like one. It is the perfect festival checklist. No sponsorship, non corporate? Tick. Doesn’t act smug about number one? Tick. Decent diverse cheap food? Tick. Enormous vodkas sold as standard-err. Hic. All this and there’s music too and it is the friendliest, most up for it festival crowd ever. Enormous cyberpunk sculptures and carvings abound, there is a wood specifically for techno and its just weird, brilliant and anarchic. And did I mention the vodkas?

See the full review here.

NME

'The reason I love it so much is because it's a completely back to basics festival. It's built upon the simple principles of having fun, having a dance, and escaping the corporate machine for one weekend. Pretty much everything is handmade, from the huge trash sculptures to the carrot cake, and there's a no-bullshit, just-for-fun ethos about the whole thing. Knowing that nobody is there just for your money is a strange but lovely feeling'

See the full review & film here.

THE GUARDIAN TOP TEN ALTERNATIVE FESTIVALS

In 2009 The Beat-Herder festival was rated in the top ten alternative music festivals in the UK by the Guardian. See the write up here. X