Sonic Fields
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...
Sonic Fields
4. The Other Glastonbury
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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