Bestival 2019, Lulworth Estate

It’s silly, sensational and has something for everyone. Bestival has always offered a balance of high-octane entertainment and laid-back ambience to sign off your summer, from its most impressive outfit competitions to a line-up that inevitably features huge headliners. If you want the full-on feel of a UK festival but on a smaller scale to, say, the roaming fields of Glastonbury, Bestival’s the place to be.

The line-up and theme for 2019 is yet to be announced, but following on from 2018 – with its circus theme and carousel of big-name headliners including soul trio London Grammar, alt-pop provocateur M.I.A., and former Drake collaborator Jorja Smith – our expectations have been set high.

Since 2017, Bestival has permanently relocated from the Isle of Wight to the castle-adorned Lulworth Estate in Dorset, where its family-orientated sister festival – Camp Bestival – is held. It’s also shifted back a month in the calendar, swapping early September for early August (taking place this year from 1 – 4 this year), which hopefully means less welly wearing for its revellers.

More soon on what the 2019 Bestival line-up has in store…