Hosted by howtobuildafest · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 50 episodes
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Welcome to our new podcast, where three friends try and figure out what it takes to build a festival from the ground up with no contacts, no experience and no knowledge of how to do it. Join us on our journey as we learn how it’s done, and see if we think we can have a go ourselves. We’ll be talking to a wide range of guests, as well as just chatting about all the things that we love about independent music and festivals ourselves
howtobuildafest hosts How to Build a Festival, a music show with 50 episodes published.
The gang celebrate the success of the first ever Echo 7 festival, and talk about how it all felt. This one is excitable and we focus on the emotion of it all, the excitement of seeing it all come together after two years
We get together for a final preview of Echo 17 before our very first festival on Saturday 20th September! We talk lineup, activities, timings and what we’re excited and worried about! Join us as our journey gets a little
Echo 17 is finally here on the 20th September and we are joined by brilliant main stage artists Kimmi Watson, founder of She17, and by Muriel and Lucy of More Peas. We talk about their music, their festival memories and
It’s End of the Road and that means back to back episodes! We go through our picks for the week, compare them to the famous Sally’s Notes, and chat with End of the Road lineup mainstay Ronan Leonard…. Plus a super exciti
Cat and Rach work through where we’re at with preparations now we’ve launched our website and lineup! We recap a very hot Green Man, one of the best lineups of 2025
Danny Hagan co-founded Green Man Festival in 2003 and 21 years later launched The Wake in 2024. Now coming into its second sold out year, we chat to Danny about the experience both festivals, the difference starting them
Rach and Cat check in with Lakefest Owner Lee Martin ahead of the 2025 edition of the brilliant family festival coming up this weekend. We talk about the lineup, the frantic nature of the weeks building up to the event a
Our short and sweet announcement episode... The one we’ve been working towards for the last 41 episodes! Announcing our name, date, venues and pricing structure as well as what happens next! Join us on our journey!
We team up with Lisa and Uncouth Brett to preview this year’s Truck Festival before looking at the 2025 edition of Deer Shed ahead of one of the busiest weekends of the festival summer Get in touch with any tips for eith
We follow up with Damian, Gina and Jack on this year’s Glastonbury festival and talk all about it. Relive the last Glasto for a couple of years here with your favourite OOF mods!
It’s Glastonbury Eve… have you somehow forgotten to do any lineup research, looking for some last minute inspiration, or just stuck in traffic just after Fleet Services on the way to Worthy Farm? Here’s your last minute
How do you say OOFestivals, what is it, and how has it grown in a way the team never imagined? We’re joined by three of its moderators to talk through the incredible online community of festival fans and of course to del
Today we canter through how our preparation is coming along and recaps of both Wide Awake and Wanderlust festivals with special guest Alexa. We also talk MJ Lenderman, Mama’s Broke and Dana Sipos from recent gigs
We round up our favourite recent gigs before getting into some exciting details for our first festival, and what’s been holding up a launch If you’d like to play, please get in touch with us on Instagram at Howtobuildafe
We are joined for the first of two episodes with Jack Leather who talks us through his many involvements in the festival world, including building installations for major festivals, and what is the OOFestivals Discord (m
We talk to Turncoat Billy’s lead singer Jonny about the local music scene in the area we’re looking to put our festival, the band’s upcoming event, what makes a good experience for a band, and it was like being champione
We chat with Brandon from Soaked about the challenges of being independent, and the epic adventures of the band in 2024, major festival bookings for 2025. Amongst our struggles to name our festival, Brandon tells us how
The team react to the Glastonbury and Green Man lineup posters, and then debate what we’re going to call our festival, with less than perfect alignment across the gang! Last week we joined Bilal and Tilly on Festival Sou
After our first visit to Festival Congress, we talk about what we learned as well as gigs we’ve been to and looking forward to in the second half of February
The brilliant lilo’s Helen and Christie kindly spent some time with Rachel and Cat talking about their favourite festival experiences, what makes a great festival to play at, and how to bring gender balance to lineups, i
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