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The Secret Garden Party will be no more after this year.
The event which helped to usher in an era of cross-platform, multifaceted curations is to make way for a brand new festival which, at some point in the future, is set to ‘rise from the ashes’.
“15 years ago I started out with a set of ideas as to what makes a good party and the most perfect venue for it,” founder Freddie Fellowes continued. “But with no set idea of what the destination was for this venture the ‘festival’ was, at that time, the perfect medium through which to explore these ideas. Much has changed since that first Garden Party, when there was nothing else like it in the UK: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter had yet to be invented and no one knew what a boutique festival was, let alone Glamping.”
“This isn’t some principled self-immolation: this is opening it up for new forms in the future. So this summer will be the almighty send-off that The Garden Party deserves and whilst that is going to cause some tears to be shed, think of it more as ‘Dylan goes electric’ than our Altamont.