The Greatest Show My first Boomtown was like a child’s first visit to the circus. Bright lights, sound, whirling colour, and with that sense of genuine excitement and adventure you feel when you have no idea what’s going to happen next. From the moment we walked out over the wonderfully relaxed Whistlers Green to look […]
Boomtown is a 60,000 person capacity music festival held on the Matterley Estate, Winchester in August and has been running since 2009. It is described by the organisers as a pop up city of wonderment, theatre, escapism and community with eleven districts filled with a fully immersive and theatrically led experience, with hundreds of actors […]
A festival of EPIC proportions! BoomTown will blow your mind and transport you back to the magical make-believe world of childhood.
7-11th August 2014 One CRAZY pop-up city! Review by Sarah, Jeff, Ash (aged 15) and Poppy (aged 8) We drove from Brighton on Thursday the 7th excited and looking forward to our very first Boomtown Fair experience with our two children Ash (15) and Poppy (8). The sun shone, radio played and we set off. […]
If you’re going to Boomtown for the first time this year, you might have heard about the Boomtown Maze. But do you know what it is or how to get round it? If this is something you have been wondering, or if you want some inside information on The Maze this year, I have written […]
For all those going to Boomtown this year… We are introducing the first Boomtown Festival Kidz Parents Meetup! If like us, you don’t have any friends who would even attempt Boomtown, why not meet up with me and a few other parents for a night out?
Gorillaz, craziness and more at 2018’s Boomtown Fair I have been wanting to go to Boomtown for so long and we are finally going for the first time this year. I admit I have what could amount to an obsession with interactive and immersive theatre. It was a love I discovered at Glastonbury Festival more […]
Parent Reviews: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014 Boomtown: A pop-up city where the impossible is possible, and the abnormal is normal! Held in the beautiful Matterley Bowl Estate in Winchester, Boomtown is a magical city in a city but once you’re there you could be anywhere in the world…!!
Guilfest 18th to 20th July 2014 Great to see Guilfest back for 2014. Very much a music festival there’s lots of variety with a mix of main stream, rock and punk.
A Lovely 10th Birthday Party Looking back through past line ups, Wychwood appears very impressive for one of the smaller festivals, and for their tenth birthday celebrations, they pulled out all the stops! This is definitely an extremely family orientated festival, almost exclusively attended by young families. A massive focal point of the festival was […]