Bournemouth Wire

The Big Chill

This is the original boutique festival weekender and 13 years on, it’s still going strong. What started out as a one-off event in Lulworth Cove has become a regular event which relocated to Herefordshire in 2002.

There is fabulous food, great cocktails, numerous bars, plentiful clean toilets and more showers than at your average festival (even if the queues are still mammoth).

The musical program is always varied, innovative and interesting, not to mention the addition of on-site art installations, comedy, cabaret and itinerant performance offerings.

At The Big Chill, the punters are always smiling – not surprising when The Malverns valley setting is one of the most naturally beautiful in this country. It’s a slightly pricier festival but student discount is available.

It’s not just music offered by the Big Chill either. Comedy performancesfrom the Mighty Boosh and Bill Bailey are sure to set this festival above others simply by the diversity of acts offered.