Wychwood Festival, the UK’s leading boutique, family festival is delighted to announce that
legendary Salford band the Happy Mondays have been confirmed as the Saturday headliner at
the sixth annual event. Taking place at Cheltenham Racecourse from the 4-6 June Wychwood’s
Saturday ‘Independent Stage’ line-up is a traditionally indie/alternative affair and with the
Mondays heading the bill in 2010 [...]

Positioned deep in the heart of the Cotswolds, just down the road from sleepy Withington (not Whittington, which ourselves and several other festival goers discovered the hard way!) 2000 Trees is small but perfectly formed ethical festival with a capacity of, you guessed it, 2000 (ish). It’s full of friendly familiar faces, which gives the festival a warm and welcoming spirit… despite the torrential rain!!

Spread across two fields and surrounded by, unsurprisingly, a fair few trees the site consisted simply of two stages; the main Treehouse Stage and the tented Leaf Lounge - though let’s not forget The Green House - a tent/canopy dance “arena” playing everything from Michael Jackson to Modeselektor. The two Lebowski’s bars kept us fully topped up with Badgers Bottom Cider all weekend and we never went hungry with a multitude of tasty treats to choose from, including festival favourite Pieminister, and lets face it festivals these days are incomplete without a good hearty pie!

Lee Hazlewood was a genius. He made bizzare country-pop. It’s only when you hear him that you realise how influential he has been on modern music (everything from The Moldy Peaches to Ladytron). He died in 2007.
My favourite songs were his earlier ones where he’d tell a story about a local character-  the people he [...]