ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Gold at British Podcast Awards 2025 for Arts & Culture.
'Life affirming...A beautiful, gross-generational celebration' The Guardian.
Sonic Fields tells the story of a year-long deep dive into the British Music Festival. Sam Tyler meets the people and learns about the forces that have shaped the story since the late '60s, before taking a dizzying summer adventure across festivals of today and trying to find his place within it all.
This is a story of how we arrived at our modern festival landscape. And what might we have lost or gained along the way...
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Average audio length:
47 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
11 episodes
since May 23, 2024
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
An on-stage interview about Sonic Fields at DS Podcast festival. Alongside Eppo Jansen, founder of Pukkelpop music festival.
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Part 3 of Sam's Glastonbury adventure and final chapter of the Sonic Fields story.
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Tickets for the live show...1st Feb - Saturday - New River Studios / London - N4 1DN7.30 till late 3 live acts, 2 special guestsSonic Fields - Live Show ticketshttps://www.fatsoma.com/e/ucb1ctcc/sonic-fields-a-night-of-live-music
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Away from the major stages, Sam takes a trip with his brother Jake...Tickets for Sonic Fields - A night of live music - Feb 1st / Saturday / New River Studios https://www.fatsoma.com/e/ucb1ctcc/sonic-fields-a-night-of-live-music
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A story about a Glastonbury adventure and one about it's history, going back to 1970 and beyond...Sonic Fields live show tickets available here...Sat, February 1st / New River Studios / N4A night of live musichttps://fatso.ma/0SJy
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After the transcendental happenings at the other Glastonbury in 1990, a spark is lit for this new incarnation of free festivals...
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Part 1 of the next chapter of this festival story. Over 2 episodes we journey from The Battle of the Beanfield in '85 right up to Castlemorton Common in '92. Britain's biggest ever Illegal rave. But first, we need to stop via a field in Glastonbury, on the summer solstice in 1990...
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What happened to those that left Isle of Wight 1970 with an idea to do things differently? They began a free festival movement with Stonehenge as its cathedral. Produced by Sam Tyler & Evan Green.
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An explosive beginning to this story emerges and Sam travels to Oxford to meet Ray Foulk, one of three brothers that founded the original Isle of Wight festival. Ray's inside story gives a remarkable insight into the biggest ever festival in Britain - when 600'000 people came to IOW in 1…
Sam's story of Britain's festival past begins with the opening of two things - a new book and a box of family photos. Soon after a journey to the Welsh border, gets a year long exploration under way...
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