AWARD-winning Powys festival Landed has announced its headline acts for this summer’s event, with tickets now on sale.
The award-winning festival is held on the Doldowlod Estate from Friday to Sunday, July 26-28.
Main stage acts this year include Zion Train, Gaudi, Bazil & Spee, China Shop Bull, Billy Idle, Notsensibles, Isonet, Tim Samsara, Cartoon Violence, National Milk Bar, Rufus Mufasa, Precinct 47 and many more.
Previously described as Mid Wales’ ‘best kept secret’, Landed celebrated back-to-back ‘Best Welsh Festival’ titles at the Welsh Hospitality Awards last year.
Having first been held in 2010, Landed was named ‘Best Welsh Festival’ in 2019, at the fourth annual awards. The fifth was held until 2023, due to Covid, with Landed again taking home the accolade.
Landed is held in the shadow of Doldowlod House, just off the A470, between Llandrindod Wells and Rhayader.
It offers a quirky mix of music, throwing together circus performers, poets, healers and crafters. There are seven separate stages, two of which sit opposite each other, so when one act finishes, people turn around and another starts up on the one behind them.
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The entire venue, meanwhile, is pretty much made out of garbage, with co-ordinator Chris ‘Grubby’ Brown and his crew collecting rubbish from the event, and scrap from other sources, to make the décor for next year’s event.
“We’re in our 13th year and Landed has grown so much in that time, but the nice thing is we’ve kept it small at the same time, we never have over 1,000 people,” said Chris.
“We started small scale with two stages, now we have seven. There’s no break in-between, we run them back-to-back. There’s no hour in between setting up, one stage faces a stage so when one stops another one starts.
“We’ve progressed over the years. We’ve had cinemas, a theatre and lots of different things the second year. We’ve now got pimp my duck races and children’s activities.
“We’re a small family, there’s only six of us, then we get lots of volunteers at the event.
“Staying small, I think, is why we’ve done so well. It’s been such an amazing experience.”
Tickets to this year’s Landed Festival range from £25-£120 and are available at https://www.fatsoma.com/e/6jac28ri/landed-festival-2024.
Check out all the latest news and more information at the Landed Festival Facebook page or visit the landedfestival.co.uk website.
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