How to Build a Festival

About How to Build a Festival

A small group of friends trying to understand how to build a great independent music business when we know nothing about the sector

Publisher

howtobuildafest

Category

arts · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Nov 2023

Latest episode

1 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2025

   Episode 49 - We built a festival! Echo 17 emotional recap!

   The gang celebrate the success of the first ever Echo 7 festival, and talk about how it all felt. This one is excitable and we focus on the emotion of it all, the excitement of seeing it all come together after two years of trying to figure out how to do it! A huge thankyou to everyone who worked with us, helped us in advance and on the day, and who pushed us to see it through! If you came along - firstly a huge thankyou - secondly please fill in our very quick feedback form so we can learn and improve, which you can find here: https://forms.gle/uEbVsFJJp6qJp5Xw6

2. 

   18 Sept 2025

   Episode 48 - ECHO 17 Final Preview!

   We get together for a final preview of Echo 17 before our very first festival on Saturday 20th September! We talk lineup, activities, timings and what we’re excited and worried about! Join us as our journey gets a little closer to reality Get your tickets at www.echo17.co.uk Check out our lineup playlist here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4O3OzxatvJ1qdMaVdEfj0t?si=c8aLp8BTSJ6rEFd4XlX1lw&pi=wKl_FoP7SS6Vd

3. 

   16 Sept 2025

   Episode 47 - Echo 17 week!!! Main Stage artists More Peas and Kimmi Watson

   Echo 17 is finally here on the 20th September and we are joined by brilliant main stage artists Kimmi Watson, founder of She17, and by Muriel and Lucy of More Peas. We talk about their music, their festival memories and the work of She17

Who has been a guest on How to Build a Festival

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• OOFestivals moderators
• Alexa
• Ali
• Lee Martin

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

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Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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