The Secret Garden Party Organisers Confirm Festival's Final Instalment
Thursday, 02 March 2017
Written by Laura Johnson
The organisers of the Secret Garden Party have confirmed that this year will be the festival's final instalment.
The event, which has run for 15 years and played host to the XX, Ed Sheeran, Florence & The Machine, Lissie, Public Service Broadcasting, Lily Allen and London Grammar, will not continue next year.
In a statement, founder Freddie Fellowes said:
“15 years ago I started out with a set of ideas as to what makes a good party and the most perfect venue for it. But with no set idea of what the destination was for this venture the ‘festival’ was, at that time, the perfect medium through which to explore these ideas. But rather than getting too excited and telling you about the phoenix we are going to raise from all of this, it bears explaining why we are lighting the fire.
Much has changed since our first Garden Party, when there was nothing else like it in the UK: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter had yet to be invented and no one knew what a boutique festival was, let alone Glamping.
Since then the Garden Party has defined and redefined outdoor events in the UK; we have done so as a collective of truly independent outsiders.
We have never compromised our principles and we never will. SGP has always been a beacon of what you can do within those terms and, as imitation (being the sincerest form of flattery) proves, it has set the bar for everyone else going forward.
But it is exactly because of those principles, and the love of those who have made the Garden Party what it is, that we are committing this senseless act of beauty.
What better way to honour the love that has been given to this project and wholly demonstrate this principle than finishing now? This isn’t some principled self-immolation: this is opening up it for the future. So this summer will be the almighty send-off that the Garden Party deserves and whilst that is going to cause some tears to be shed, think of it more as ‘Dylan goes electric’ than our Altamont.
Because after all you can’t be avant-garde from within an institution and lest we forget: the frontier always moves.”
The festival will return to Mill Hill Field, Abbots Ripton for the final time between July 20 and 23. Topping the bill are Crystal Fighters, Metronomy and Toots & the Maytals, while also set to appear are Wild Beasts, Peaches, Ray BLK, Honne, Jagwar Mar, Jeremy Loops, Rejjie Snow, Kate Nash, Fickle Friends, Deap Vally, Pumarosa and Toothless, among others. Head here to check out the full line up.
Weekend tickets are on sale now, priced at £170.00 plus fees.
The Secret Garden Party Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Thu July 20 2017 - HUNTINGDON Mill Hill Field
Fri July 21 2017 - ABBOTS RIPTON Mill Hill Field
Sat July 22 2017 - ABBOTS RIPTON Mill Hill Field
Sun July 23 2017 - ABBOTS RIPTON Mill Hill Field
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