The Brownstock Festival is a truly independent boutique festival which takes place this weekend in the rolling Essex countryside.  The festival which started out as a party with friends and a trailer for a stage is now  a multi stage event which can attract chart topping acts including Example and Athlete.  While the festival has grown, it has remained faithful to its family routes and its desire to become the ‘ultimate farm festival’ so watch out Michael Eavis!   Being a ‘farm’ festival, community is important, so wherever possible products are sourced locally (although there are some imports from across the boarder in Suffolk), this includes a lot of the artists performing throughout the weekend.

The festival has a number of quirky features, including the use of farm equipment as art installations, an art camp with a 50 metre wall painting, a piano bar with various artefacts collected at various markets during the summer.  There will be a fancy dress competition, this years theme being ‘Hill Billies’ so get out those dungarees and blacken those teeth for a Hoe Down.

The festival has four stages:

Main Stage - With live music all day including: Athlete, Example, Stealing Signs, The Magistrates and The Milk

Good Shed  -  Dance the day away with DJ’s including: Mat Format & Messy MC, Ms Dynamite, Pendulum (Dj Set), Redlight, Scoundrel, Shuffle & Indica, Shy FX & Youngman and Union

Silent Disco & Hip Hop Karaoke – round the clock silent disco, so you can dance the day away in splendid isolation

Piano Bar – a chance to listen to artists or just have a jam.

There’s also Adams Park, no not the home of London Wasps but a skateboard park, expect skaters, BMX bikers and free runners to be doing their stuff.

As you would expect from a festival held on a farm you can be assured of good quality fresh food, whether its home reared Aberdeen Angus Beef Burgers or Jimmy’s Farm sausages, plus a great Suffolk beers and ciders.

Brownstock certainly has all the ingredients to deliver a great festival; there are still some tickets available from here