News and reviews from the Secret Garden Party music festival
July 2022
That Was a Serious Party review – lords and ladies of misrule in posh festival film
Documentary about Secret Garden Party only begins to get the spirit of the shindig when it degenerates into a collaged melee
July 2017
Five of the best… new gigs
Secret Garden Party and Sheer Mag: this week’s best UK rock and pop gigs
Catch the final instalment of the quirky Cambridgeshire festival and take in Philadelphia’s punk-minded, groovy rockers
May 2017
UK music festivals to hold web blackout to raise awareness of sexual violence
Bestival, Secret Garden Party and others will display #saferspacesatfestivals message to promote zero tolerance
April 2017
Festivals go upmarket to avoid image of ‘beery lads singing with their shirts off’
Promoters of this year’s big music events are going invitation-only or avoiding mainstream acts to try to create a more exclusive vibe
July 2016
Prohibition doesn’t work. The UK needs a more enlightened drugs policy
Tom Gash
Secret Garden Party pioneers drugs testing service for festivalgoers
April 2016
Holograms and holistic health: what will music festivals of the future look like?
The British public’s desire to gather in muddy fields shows no signs of waning – but how is the festival industry catering for our evolving tastes?
May 2015
Festivals 2015
Music festival listings 2015: a summer guide to the UK and Europe's best
From Kanye at Glastonbury to a Fleetwood Mac reunion on the Isle of Wight, from LaRoux in Suffolk to Elbow on Blackheath, the Kaiser Chiefs in Kendal or Primal Scream in Aviemore, from north to south, east to west, from behemoth to boutique, we’ve got the listings and links you need for months of sunburned – or waterlogged – sonic fun
May 2014
Music festivals organise web blackouts to highlight risks of legal highs
DJ Rob da Bank, founder of Bestival, hopes move will help to undermine 'dangerous fad' that led to death of festivalgoer
July 2013
Secret Garden Party – review
Secret Garden Party 2013: what to look out for
February 2013
Secret Garden Party 2013 lineup features Soulwax and David Icke
Festival in Cambridgeshire also includes Django Django, Bastille and the government's former drugs advisor David Nutt
July 2012
Notes & Theories
Subatomic particles collide at Secret Garden Party
Guerilla Science staged a safari featuring quarks, electrons and bosons to help demystify particle physics
August 2011
The Secret Garden Party escapes to New York
Shortcuts
One of our islands is missing
July 2011
Secret Garden Party 2011 – in pictures
From mud-wrestling to a bouncing Blondie performance, we bring you the best bits from this year's Secret Garden Party in Cambridge
August 2010
This week's music festival news
Electric Picnic | Green Phoenix Festival | V Festival | Beautiful Days | Camp Bestival 2011 | The Secret Garden Party 2011
July 2010
Notes & Theories
Guerilla scientists infiltrate Secret Garden Party
This week's festival news
February 2009
Clubs preview: The Secret Garden Party Presents... Bacchanalia Valentine's Ball, London
Festivals 2015Music festival listings 2015: a summer guide to the UK and Europe's bestFrom Kanye at Glastonbury to a Fleetwood Mac reunion on the Isle of Wight, from LaRoux in Suffolk to Elbow on Blackheath, the Kaiser Chiefs in Kendal or Primal Scream in Aviemore, from north to south, east to west, from behemoth to boutique, we’ve got the listings and links you need for months of sunburned – or waterlogged – sonic fun
