19th - 21st August 2022 • Stowe, Buckinghamshire
19th - 22nd August 2022
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Step into a secret world of ancient woodland & lakes with hidden parties, soulful relaxation, glorious comedy, plentiful feasting & kid’s revelry.
Tier 2 Tickets On Sale Now!
Adult: £129 / Child: £40
All festival tickets include camping and parking
Tier 2 Tickets On-Sale Now!
Adult: £129 / Child: £40
All festival tickets include
camping and parking
Tier 2 Tickets On-Sale Now!
Adult: £129 / Child: £40
All festival tickets include
camping and parking
It’s all
for you to discover…
Handpicked street food, mind-blowing performances and revelry for all ages
A sneaky peek of things to come
Kids' Kingdom
Live Theatre
Our friends at the TinPot Theatre Co. will be back with us in 2022 to stage another enchanting story inspired by our magical woodland landscape. Make your way to the woods for a truly unique immersive theatre experience that will transport you to a hidden realm.

Kids' Kingdom
Live Theatre
Kids' Kingdom
Vintage Fun Fair
Young and old alike can experience the thrills of yesteryear with our lovingly restored vintage fairground rides! Fairground rides are included in your event ticket, so you can have a go as many times as you like!

Kids' Kingdom
Vintage Fun Fair
Music
Elder Island
Carving out a genre-defying space for themselves in our musical landscape, Elder Island captivate with shapeshifting songs wherein textures matter as much as melodies, and lyrics are littered with crypticism. The trio’s music cherry-picks and transforms elements from genres as diverse as electronica, house, pop and neo-soul. The result is a web of sound that threads poetic lyricism and unfamiliar instruments over a backdrop of electronic elements and synth-heavy dance beats.
Elder Island are vocalist and cellist Katy Sargent, bassist and beat maestro Luke Thornton and guitarist and synth virtuoso David Havard. Their backgrounds in fine art, photography and graphic design brought about the trio’s introduction in Bristol’s art milieu, and continue to provide the band with its diverse creative influences. Turning their artistic focus to music seven years ago, the genre-splicing music scene in Bristol, where the trio still reside, provides fertile ground for inspiration.
In 2014 the band released an eponymously titled debut EP, an ambient soundscape of field recordings, loops and percussive elements. This was followed by 2016 EP Seeds In Sand, on which the band found their sound in cohesive collection of five dance-influenced tracks. Following the success of these early releases, the band’s extraordinary debut album ‘The Omnitone Collection’ was streamed over 15 million times within the first year of its release in 2019. Describing the album as an “integrated concept”, the band created bespoke artwork to accompany each song, evidencing the detailed focus the band applies to all aspects of Elder Island’s creative output. When finishing the album the band invited producer Ali Chant (Portishead, Perfume Genius, M.Ward, PJ Harvey) to assist with the final development and worked with him to refine tracks at his Bristol-based studio, Playpen. The Omnitone Collection’s ten tracks come together to form a sweeping soundscape weaved with ambition. Wrought with powerful synths, soaring vocals and ear-worm-catchy guitar riffs, they are songs to be swept away by, but also to decipher and contemplate on repeat listens. Spring 2020 saw the release of The Omnitone Collection Remixed, with mixes provided by collaborators and artists admired by the band, such as Shigeto, Matthew Dear, and former tour companions Dirty Nice.
Their live shows have taken on a shape and reputation of their own; refusing to rely on electronic backing tracks or pre-recordings, the band create unique and atmospheric experiences where multi-layered beats and melodic broodings stir emotions and never fail to get crowds dancing. The collaborative nature of their work shines during live performances where Katy, Dave and Luke’s charismatic friendship radiates as much from their music as from their on-stage interaction. UK headline tours have been a sold-out success, and 2019 saw Elder Island take The Omnitone Tour to Europe and North America twice, with over 60 dates in total. This included selling out shows in New York’s Bowery Ballroom, LA’S El Rey Theatre, and the London Roundhouse. In February 2020, the band played as special guest co-headliners alongside Maribou State to a sold-out crowd of 5,000 fans at London’s Printworks, and the band have now set their sights on 2021 touring.
Paying deference to the experience of touring and the energy of their fans, in June 2020 the band released a short documentary film made during the Omnitone Tour, underscoring the special regard in which the band hold their live performances. This release accompanied the announcement of new tour dates for 2021, and with this announcement the exciting prospect of more unforgettable performances from a band who create magic when playing live.
The first glimpse from 2020’s new body of work comes in the form of an A-Side and B-Side release, as the band playfully invoke the tradition of double-sided cassette and vinyl singles. A-Side single ‘Feral’ is a driving, dramatic track that builds towards a crescendo with inexorable, synth-lead force. Juxtaposed against an incongruously light bossa nova beat, pulsing synths and assertive vocals are combined to an edgy effect.
B-Side ‘Absolute’ is a smooth, contemporary R&B lead counter to all the intensity of Feral. Executed with a cool precision, in the band’s trademark fashion Absolute becomes increasingly layered with echoed vocal harmonies and guitar riffs as it progresses, taking on a spacey underwater quality. The two tracks showcase the band’s evolution and diversity within a sound that is still identifiably Elder Island, showcasing Katy Sargent’s ability to adapt her vocals to the drama and character of each song.
Released May 28th 2021, the band’s second studio album ‘Swimming Static’ explores with poignancy our disposition towards nostalgia and reflection. Snippets of childhood recollections and falling in love are overlaid with dreamy ruminations on time and memory.
Streams of over 200 Million on Spotify alone evidence the group’s huge international fan base, who are drawn to Elder Island’s ability to create catchy, dance-worthy tracks that incorporate their otherworldly creative veracity and uniqueness. Elder Island can certainly craft a hit to thrill live-crowds, but will do so with their own distinctive artistry, drawn from a myriad of creative influences and musical styles. It is clear that the band’s popularity and critical repute grows with increasing momentum, and with the release of ‘Feral’ + ‘Absolute’, 12th November 2020 is sure to only accelerate this further.

Music
Elder Island
Food & Drink
La Pizzeria
La Pizzeria do one thing, and they do it well. Pizzas. All freshly made to order, stonebaked and topped with a mouthwatering range of incredible ingredients. No stranger to Blackpit Farm, the team have been throwing pizza’s here at events for over 8 years and there’s a reason we keep bringing them back! V, VG & GF.

Food & Drink
La Pizzeria
Music
Orbital
Though they might not have envisioned it when they recorded debut single Chime inside a cupboard at their parents’ house for less than a fiver, Orbital would go on to become giants of electronic music.Phil and Paul Hartnoll both redefined what dance music could do and the place it took within popular culture itself. Their music has influenced and inspired artists from Björk to Bicep and the brothers have collaborated with minds as diverse as Madonna, Kraftwerk, Professor Stephen Hawking and – in one of their many memorable Glastonbury performances – an actual Time Lord, in the shape of Doctor Who actor Matt Smith.Alongside their boundary-pushing work in the recording studio, Orbital earned a reputation as one of the best live acts on the planet. Unlike many of their dance contemporaries at the time, Orbital didn’t rely on pre-programmed DAT tapes and instead took a far more fast-thinking, improvisational approach, meaning that any gig can present a multitude of organic mutations of their songs.They completely reinvented the notion of what a “dance” act could do live and turned multitudes of rock fans on to the limitless pleasures of electronic music. It’s not for nothing that the band’s colossal set at Glastonbury Festival in 1994 is regularly cited as one of the greatest gigs of all time.

Music
Orbital
Music
Roni Size
Roni Size’s whole life has been about building something new from whatever was around him. From Bristol youthclub parties, through the white heat of rave and the founding moments of jungle and drum’n’bass, to transforming underground electronic music into something that could be played by a live band on the biggest arena and festival stages, he has at each stage created completely afresh - not just a sound or style but an entire methodology of how music can be made. And each time, that new creation has reflected his heritage, his surroundings and the precise moment in which he’s operating.
20-years ago, The Mercury Prize win for his ‘New Forms’ album brought D’n’B to the forefront of dance-music news, making even the rest of the industry – where reactions had up until that point been bemused – sit up and pay attention. For several years thereafter Roni and team were on top of the world, succeeding as solo artists as well as a collective, maintaining underground credibility yet receiving Brit awards and even collaborating with some of the biggest names in hip hop.
2016 was a vintage year for Roni. Live shows included Ram Records’ NYE show at O2 Academy Brixton, a headline show at the BBC 6 Music festival and a summer festival season that began at Love Saves the Day with a curated Full Cycle Stage Takeover for Arcadia Afterburner and included Secret Garden Party, Evolution, Glastonbury, Blissfields, NASS, EDC, Dour, Boomtown, Frequency, Lowlands, Creamfields, SW4, Outlook, and many more. Roni relaunched Full Cycle Records with fellow co-founder, DJ Krust, with the releases drawing praise from The Wire, Dummy, UKF, Mista Jam, 6 Music, Gilles Peterson, Radio 1, 1Xtra, DJ Mag and beyond.
It was in 2017, as we fully appreciated the legacy that Roni has created for drum’n’bass, that the next chapter began. Roni toured his groundbreaking new audio visual live show, a combined live instrument and hardware show that features state of the art production and 3D effect projection mapping celebrating 20 years of New Forms. Roni took the groundbreaking live show on the road to festivals in the UK and Europe as well as on extensive tours of the US, New Zealand and Australia with no let up as he also DJ’ed at the very best clubs and festivals throughout the globe.
The anniversary re-release of New Forms (on Universal and featuring the live set together with brand new remixes, edits and tracks) garnered huge support across digital and print media as well as on radio. With premieres from MixMag and Tsugi, rave reviews and coverage by NME, Fact, DJ Mag, Clash and many others along with multiple plays on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1 Xtra, Roni cemented his position at the top of the game.
The man from Bristol showed no signs of slowing down, as he took to the road with UK and European live tours in 2018 and continued to travel to all corners of the globe to play clubs and festivals including Dirtybird Campout, Noisily, Blue Dot, Output, Creamfields and SW4. Roni finished 2018 with a remix for rising star Paris Green on Get Physical and played shows in Europe, the US, Australia, Asia and Brazil as well as appearing on guest spots across BBC Radio and continuing to contribute to charity projects and support the grass roots scene in his home city of Bristol.
2019 continued on a high. Roni worked on huge collab track “Calling” with Rag n Bone Man, which was selected as the “sound of summer” by Sky Sports and broadcast repeatedly across their channels. Roni appeared on BBC TV as well as regularly on radio and had his music chosen by Virgil Abloh to curate the designer’s Off White runway shows. Meanwhile, Roni played the likes of Printworks, Tomorrowland, Eastern Electrics, Fabric, Untold Festival and countless others. Roni ended 2019 as the face of highly-respected music tech brands Waves and Krotos, recognised for his contribution to the industry and his knowledge and skill as a producer.

Music
Roni Size
Food & Drink
The Cheese Guys
Brought to life by the owners of the Two Belly Cheese & Bottle Shops in Bristol, The Cheese Guys know their way around a wheel of cheese. Their sourdough toasties are stuffed with all manner of fillings including kimchi, apricot harissa or mac & cheese and if that wasn’t enough…indulge in raclette fries, the ultimate cheesy chip! V, VG & GF.

Food & Drink
The Cheese Guys
Mind, Body & Soul
Paddle Boarding
Take advantage of our stunning lake and hop on a paddle board. Take in the views of the beautiful surroundings, it’s without a doubt the best view of our lake field you’ll get all weekend… just don’t fall in! Paddle boards are free to use and included in your event ticket!

Mind, Body & Soul
Paddle Boarding
To hide aboard a vessel to gain
passage to another land
Stow.a.way – n.
On the grape vine...
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