Amid a bloated festival market, the founders of the UK’s tiniest weekenders explain why they are keeping things intimate and defiantly non-commercial
“We started out with five of us putting £100 in a pot and hoping for the best,” says Henry Morris of the micro electronic music festival Field Maneuvers.
Along with Leon Cole and Ele Beattie, they’ve thrown their annual “no frills rave” in a secret countryside location since 2013 when 350 people showed up to get sweaty in a field. “It started as a party for us and our friends and it still is, it’s just gotten a bit bigger,” says Beattie. This year’s event, featuring Kode9 and Overmono, will host 1,500 people but there’s no intention to expand further.
