We are now well and truly in the festival season, but don’t let the summer solstice and the impending colder months fool you into thinking that it’s drawing to a close – yes, a few important festival landmarks have come and gone, such as Field Day, The Great Escape and The Isle Of Wight, but there are still loads of strange and interesting ones to come in 2012, such as the free-of-charge Tramlines Festival, The National-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties, and the world famous Reading & Leeds Festivals.
To make things easy, we’ve compiled a list of the bigger festivals still to come in 2012. As you can see, there are quite a few! And that doesn’t even include the smaller festivals and all of the stunning international ones, like Exit, Flow and Træna.
Leefest: 29-30 June
Big Names: Mystery Jets, Slow Club, Ghost Poet
Hop Farm: 29 June-1 July
Big Names: Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, Suede
Blissfields: 29 June-1 July
Big Names: Patrick Wolf, Guillemots, Spector
Bloc: 6-7 July
Big Names: Orbital, Snoop Dogg, Amon Tobin
T In The Park: 6-8 July
Big Names: Snow Patrol, The Stone Roses, Kasabian
Wireless: 6-8 July
Big Names: Deadmau5, Drake, Rihanna
Wakestock: 6-8 July
Big Names: Calvin Harris, Dizzee Rascal, Ed Sheeran
Latitude: 12-15 July
Big Names: Bon Iver, Elbow, Paul Weller
Hard Rock Calling: 13-15 July
Big Names: Soundgarden, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Paul Simon
Vintage: 13-15 July
Big Names: Aloe Blacc, The Damned, Don Letts
Secret Garden Party: 19-22 July
Big Names: Orbital, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, KT Tunstall
Tramlines: 20-22 July
Big Names: Roots Manuva, We Are Scientists, Reverend and the Makers
Deer shed: 20-22 July
Big Names: Saint Etienne, Villagers, School Of Seven Bells
Womad: 27-29 July
Big Names: Patrick Wolf, Jimmy Cliff, Keb’ Mo’
Kendal Calling: 27-29 July
Big Names: Dizzee Rascal, James, Maximo Park
Standon Calling: 3-5 August
Big Names: Beardyman, Death In Vegas, Fat Freddy’s Drop
Green Man: 17-19 August
Big Names: Mogwai, Van Morrison, Feist
V Festival: 18-19 August
Big Names: Professor Green, The Stone Roses, The Killers
Reading & Leeds: 24-26 August
Big Names: Foo Fighters, The Cure, Kasabian
End Of The Road: 31 August – 2 September
Big Names: Graham Coxon, Alt-J, Patrick Watson
Bestival: 6-9 September
Big Names: Gary Numan, Stevie Wonder, New Order
All Tomorrow’s Parties: 7-9 December
Big Names: The National, Wild Beasts, The Antlers