Winchester, Hampshire, UK
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Forget everything you know about festivals. Boomtown is a full-blown parallel universe dropped into the Hampshire countryside: twelve districts, each with their own vibe, architecture, and storyline. It's part music festival, part immersive theatre, part fever dream. From drum 'n' bass to punk to global bass, the lineup reflects the same genre-anarchist spirit. Hidden venues behind every corner, performers who actually commit to the bit, and 17 years of perfecting controlled chaos. Exhausting, overwhelming, and absolutely brilliant.
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With ‘Louder, Please’ still finding new fans, Rose Gray is already looking ahead. At Boomtown, she talks festival confidence, theatrical ambition and a second album that’s nearly finished.
Come for Ashnikko, Skrillex and Kneecap, stay for the secret clubs, strange quests and glorious possibility of Boomtown’s parallel universe.
Third preview of second album 'Nobody's Coming To Save You' arrives ahead of autumn tour.
Nine years ago, Sarah Harvey worked Boomtown in fancy dress for a free ticket. This week Panic Shack play it twice. Cardiff's finest talk vans, pickles, mosh pits and the dream of finally quitting the day jobs, as Dork's latest festival guide cover stars prepare to give the fictional city a very real seeing to.
This year's Boomtown is dubbed Chapter 5: Radical Redesign; an invitation to rethink how we live, connect and create. Here's some of the stuff we'll be checking out.
Royle Family actor Craig Cash stars in the video for the Manchester poet's new single.
The Reading rapper's 15-track second album features a guest turn from KiLLOWEN.
The Polydor two-tracker precedes festival dates and a European tour with Tove Lo.
The collaboration is lifted from his second album 'Decoding Birdsong'.
