Music festivals

A definitive guide to this year's live music festivals. Find tickets and information for festivals across the UK

Win tickets to Latitude
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This year's best dance festivals
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Win tickets to Latitude

Get your hands on a pair of tickets to this year's Latitude festival, which include a backstage tour
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Sort your summer now with our month-by-month music festival calendar
Festival fashion sorted!

Hunters and daisy chains are so 2007. Girls, find the hottest festival wear here
This year's best dance festivals

Our guide to the best bass gatherings this summer will help you sort the beats from the chaff
Plan B + Azealia Banks at Lovebox

London's biggest festival anounce a red-hot line-up – check out the full bill here

Our music festivals calendar: what's on month-by-month

Ten red-hot festivals taking place this summer

Who's playing? Animal Collective, Bat For Lashes, Solange, Tim Burgess, Everything Everything, Four Tet, Fucked Up, Savages, Palma Violets, TNGHT, Daphni, Django Django, John Cooper Clarke, Kurt Vile, Seth Troxler, Toy, Stealing Sheep + more.

Victoria Park Victoria Park Rd, E3 5SN
Sat May 25

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Download

Who's playing? Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Queens of the Stone Age, Motorhead, Alice in Chains, The Gaslight Anthem, HIM, A Day to Remember + more.

Donington Park Castle Donington, Derby, DE74 2RP
Fri Jun 14 - Sun Jun 16

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Glastonbury

Who's playing? Arctic Monkeys, The Rolling Stones, Mumford And Sons, Dizzee Rascal, Primal Scream, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Vampire Weekend, Elvis Costello, Portishead, Chase And Status, The XX, Foals, Example, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alt-J, Two Door Cinema Club, Public Image Ltd, Tame Impala, The Vaccines, Kenny Rogers, Ben Howard, Rita Ora, Rufus Wainwright, Jake Bugg, Professor Green, Laura Mvula + more.

Worthy Farm Pilton, Shepton Mallett, BA4 4BY
Wed Jun 26 - Mon Jul 1

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Hard Rock Calling

Who's playing? Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band, Kasabian, Paul Weller, The Black Crowes, Alabama Shakes, Miles Kane, Kodaline, The Cribs, Klaxons, Tribes + more.

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Sat Jun 29 - Sun Jun 30

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Wireless

Who's playing? Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Frank Ocean, John Legend, Emeli Sande, Calvin Harris, Rita Ora, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, A$AP Rocky, Ke$ha, Katy B, Jessie Ware, Kendrick Lamar + more.

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Fri Jul 12 - Sun Jul 14

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Lovebox

Who's playing? Azealia Banks, Plan B, Goldfrapp, SBTRKT, Disclosure, Annie Mac, Toddla T, Flying Lotus, Mark Ronson, A-Trak, Gold Panda, Wiley, High Contrast, London Elektricity + more.

Victoria Park Victoria Park Rd, E3 5SN
Fri Jul 19 - Sun Jul 21

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Wilderness

Who's playing? Empire Of The Sun, Noah And The Whale, Rodriguez, Michael Kiwanuka, Matt Corby, Tom Odell, Martha Wainwright, Ghostpoet, Tribes, King Krule, Lucy Rose, Melody's Echo Chamber + more.

Cornbury Park Charlbury, OX7 3EH
Fri Aug 9 - Sun Aug 11

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Leeds Festival

Who's playing? Eminem, Deftones, Alt-J, Sub Focus, Boy Better Know, System Of A Down, The Lumineers, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Editors, Biffy Clyro, Hadouken!, White Lies, Foals, Nine Inch Nails + more.

Bramham Park near Wetherby, Leeds, LS23 6ND
Fri Aug 23 - Sun Aug 25

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Reading Festival

Richfield Avenue, Reading
Fri Aug 23 - Sun Aug 25

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Bestival

Who's playing? Elton John, Snoop Dogg, MIA, Flaming Lips, The Knife, Jessie Ware, Sinead O'Connor, Disclosure, Chic Featuring Nile Rodgers, Johnny Marr, Squarepusher, Rudimental, Angel Haze, Tom Odell, The Roots, Belle & Sebastian, Disclosure, Hot Natured, Bastille + more.