How to Build a Festival
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How to Build a Festival is a music podcast hosted by howtobuildafest. It has 50 episodes, with the latest published October 2025.
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
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Episode 49 - We built a festival! Echo 17 emotional recap!
Episode 48 - ECHO 17 Final Preview!
Episode 47 - Echo 17 week!!! Main Stage artists More Peas and Kimmi Watson
Episode 46 - End of the Road preview with Ronan Leonard
Episode 45 Green Man Recap and Echo 17 Preparation
Episode 44 - Chatting with Danny Hagan, co-founder of Green Man Festival and The Wake Festival
Episode 43 - Lakefest Preview
Episode 42 - Emergency pod… our big announcement
Episode 41 - Truck Festival and Deer Shed 2025 very unofficial preview
Episode 40 - Glastonbury 2025 Recap with OOFestivals
Episode 39 - Last minute Glastonbury 2025 lineup tips
Episode 38 - Glastonbury preview and festival community chat with OOFestivals
Episode 37 - Festival progress, Wide Awake and Wanderlust recap and designing merch
Episode 36 - Some announcements - moving our festival forwards and a call for artists
Episode 35 - Festival set design and getting involved in the festival industry with Jack Leather
Episode 34 - Walthamstow’s live music scene with Turncoat Billy
Episode 33 - Supporting the Libertines and major festival bookings - chatting with Soaked
Episode 32 - Glastonbury and Green Man lineup reactions and trying to name our festival
Episode 31 - Reflections from Festival Congress 2025
Episode 30 - Lilo talk us through what makes a great festival for artists
Episode 29 - Rockaway Beach recap and our team new year resolutions
Episode 28 - Recapping our favourite festivals and gigs of 2024
Episode 27 - Chatting with Lakefest’s Lee Martin
Episode 26 - Our Festival Manifesto
Episode 25 - Anniversary Edition! What we thought of the Glastonbury ticket sale process and where we’ve got to with building our festival
Episode 24 - Glastonbury ticketing changes and recapping the first On the Meadow Festival
Episode 23 - Deer Shed Festival Director Oliver Jones talks to us about how it all really works
Episode 22 - End of the Road Recap - DJ Rach & Cat
Episode 21 - End of the Road Unofficial Preview, Oasis and All Points East
Episode 20 - Green Man Recap
Episode 19 - Green Man Festival preview, plus Deer Shed Festival and Uptown Festival recaps
Episode 18 - Catch up with Festival Sounds on volunteering, new festivals and our favourite 2024 festivals yet to come
Episode 17 - Bitesized Deer Shed preview, our first festival of the year - plus Truck and Tramlines
Episode 16 - Glastonbury recap and our interview with Leo, founder of the brand new On the Meadow Festival
Episode 15 - Playing at Glastonbury and building sustainability and accessibility into festivals all over the country
Episode 14 - Glastonbury 2024 Early Preview - Plus Taylor Swift, Isle of Wight, This Feeling and Coast
Episode 13 - Game Changer: We interview Mark Davyd of the Venue Trust on the Grassroots Music Report
Episode 12: Grassroots Music Report and Afflecks Palace
How to Build a Festival - Episode 11: Interviewing Soaked
How to Build a Festival Episode 10 - Chatting with Coast Festival
Episode 9 - Glasto and Green Man reactions
How to Build a Festival Episode 8: Green Man Predictions and Les Savy Fav
How to Build a Festival Episode 7 - Back from hibernation just in time for lineups
How to Build a Festival Episode 6: What we loved in 2023
How to Build a Festival Episode 5: Genre chat and do we have a target audience?
How to Build a Festival Episode 4: What music will we have, what are our favourite live songs, and Starsailor’s very polite audience
Episode 3: Glasto ticket reveal and next steps for our festival
Episode 2: Is a city festival the way to go for us?
How to Build a Festival - Episode 1: Why are we here?
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