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As you’ve probably guessed by now, I had a ruddy wonderful time at Boomtown this year, and I hope that my photos have managed to capture some of the fun and …
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There were loads of fantastic acts to be seen at this year’s Boomtown Fair, but the two I enjoyed the most were undoubtedly Beans On Toast and Captain Hotknives.
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“Man, you don’t stand a chance if you go down in Chinatown,” sang tight trousered troubadours Thin Lizzy back in 1980, but happily this prophecy proved untrue at Boomtown, where …
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One of my favourite areas in Boomtown is the Wild West, where an awful load of work must go into constructing a wonderfully detailed facsimile of a frontier town, complete …
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Continuing our comprehensive coverage of this year’s wonderful Boomtown Festival, here’s a selection of photos taken around the town centre, with lots of crowd shots of people watching Goldie Looking …
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The Lion’s Den at Boomtown looked even more magnificent this year in its new location in the south east part of the site (see how it looked in 2013 here).
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One of the best things about Boomtown is the weird and wonderful places you can stumble into late at night. Although perhaps nothing can challenge the mind-frying mystery of last year’s …
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Here’s some more scenes from last weekend’s wild weekend at the wonderful Boomtown Fair. Seen in hip-shimmying action were contenders and challengers for the Dance Off, staged in the Bario Loco …
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The Park Hotel in Boomtown’s Mayfair zone has always been one of my favourites – if only for its wonderful revolving door – and there was plenty of entertainment on …
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One of my favourite parts of Boomtown was the Job Centre in the Old Town. Substantially enlarged since last year, the new Job Centre was fully kitted out with advisers, interview …
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Anyone thinking that it would be impossible to top the Arcadia Spider seen as the last few Boomtown Fairs may have found themselves equally blown away by the incredible Bang Hai …
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Boomtown 2015 proved to be the best one I’ve ever been to, with some amazing acts and all the usual imagination and fun that is created by performers and the crowd. …
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Boomtown has long been my favourite UK festival – check out the photo feature documenting the last three years there – and the organisers have just announced the line up for …
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