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    The UK’s 10 best music festivals

    Whether you go full-on feral at Glastonbury or chomp on churros at a one-day dad-fest, there’s a festival for youModern Toss on festivals
    by Leonie Cooper May 04, 2019 6 minutes
    Clockwise from top left: Sleaford Mods; Janet Jackson; Stevie Wonder; Stormzy; Sharon Van Etten; Four Tet. Composite: Redferns; FilmMagic; Getty; WireImage

    Glastonbury

    26 to 30 June Worthy Farm, Pilton Stormzy, the Killers, the Cure, , , Lizzo. But everybody knows Glastonbury isn’t about the music. It’s about trying to find the naked sauna field and/or huffing laughing gas with a bloke you’re convinced is Banksy at 3am in the stone circle. A mud-baked Mecca and church of the sesh, is God. It will probably ruin every other festival for you because none of them will ever quite match the scale, quality and freeform escapism of Worthy Farm. The first time I went, I only found the Pyramid Stage on the Sunday and when I got there I had to watch . Even so, it was still the greatest weekend of my life, proof of its mighty, transcendental power.Accessed via a secret door disguised as a nail salon, the Sisterhood stage is a gloriously fun safe space for anyone who identifies as a woman to go and dance like Kate Bush and do DIY power tool workshops away from the Nothing Compares 2U, Glastonbury. But maybe Boomtown at a push.

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