Unmissable events in the UK!

The top selling and hottest events in the UK that one cannot miss out on!

Glastonbury Music Festival

The Glastonbury Festivalis a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, England. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas. Films and albums recorded at Glastonbury have been released, and the festival receives extensive television and newspaper coverage. Glastonbury is attended by around 200,000 people.

This festival is regarded as a major event in British culture and it was inspired by the ethos of the hippie and free festival movements. It is an unmissable festival! People have the time of their lives when they attend Glastonbury and we recommend you to have it too!

Hay Festival

One of the world’s biggest and best literary festivals happens every year in late spring in the little border town of Hay on Wye.

Dreamed up around a kitchen table by Peter Florence and his parents over 30 years ago, the first Hay Festival was held in the modest surroundings of a pub garden. These days it attracts 100,000-plus visitors over 11 days to engage with the world’s great writers, poets, philosophers, historians, scientists, comedians and musicians. It’s moved to a large tented village on the outskirts of town with 10 venues, pop-up cafes, shops and restaurants.

Between sessions, visitors can relax in deckchairs on the village green, browse the stalls and visit a festival bookshop which stocks 55,000 titles by visiting speakers. Evenings are devoted to music, comedy and film.

The Notting Hill Carnival

It comes every summer. London sets aside the days encompassing their 'bank holiday' for one of the world's largest street carnivals, Notting Hill Carnival. Each year, close to one million people attend this celebration of Caribbean heritage on the streets of Notting Hill. Celebrations include costume-clad Caribbeans dancing to traditional reggae, meringue, calypso, rumba, and zouk music, and street vendors selling foods like seasoned jerk chicken, callaloo, and traditional goat stew. Many Caribbean foods have roots from cuisines native to Europe, America, China, and Africa.

This annual celebration is held in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is organized and managed by the people of British West Indian communities and it is a significant event for the Black British culture in London. Close to one million people attend this extravaganza of Caribbean culture and in 2006, the United Kingdom voted to add the Notting Hill Carnival to the famous list of icons of England.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringeis the world's largest arts festival, which in 2018 spanned 25 days and featured more than 55,000 performances of 3,548 different showsin 317 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the month of August.The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has become a world-leading celebration of arts and culture, surpassed only by the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup in terms of global ticketed events. As an event it "has done more to place Edinburgh in the forefront of world cities than anything else" according to its historian and former chairman of the board, Michael Dale..

It is an open access (or "unjuried") performing arts festival, meaning there is no selection committee, and anyone may participate, with any type of performance. The official Fringe Programme categorises shows into sections for theatre, comedy, dance, physical theatre, circus, cabaret, children's shows, musicals, opera, music, spoken word, exhibitions and events. Comedy is the largest section, making up over one-third of the programme and the one that in modern times has the highest public profile, due in part to the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

These are the top festivals happening across the UK year after year. People love to attend all of these festivals because of the grandeur they offer!

Apart from these festivals, you can also find a lot of small events happening in every neighbourhood in the UK on a daily basis. This assures that you will never get bored when you are in the UK!