The best UK music festivals 2007

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Reading and Leeds Festival

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What once was one massive rock fest soon became two. With Leeds feeling left out that the south was getting all the fun, they saddled up with the Reading festival to create one of the biggest rock and indie events in the country. Two locations, tons of booze and more rock than you get in Bognor!

Global Gathering

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Time to get your dancing shoes on because the beats are not going to stop all night here. Global Gathering looks to be one of the biggest dance music festivals ever this year, with must-see acts such as Faithless, Basement Jaxx, 2manyDJs and too many more. Get those glow sticks out!

 

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Download

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One of the newest kids on the block but you won\'t find any pop here. Re-igniting the metal flames at the Donnington racetrack, Download promises more heavy metal than the Robot Wars graveyard. Acts this year include boundary-crossing Linkin Park, your mum\'s favourite satanist Marilyn Manson and metal legends Iron Maiden. 

 

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WOMAD

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If the idea of travelling out of the UK is too much for you, but you still fancy an international flair to your festivals, WOMAD is like all the world\'s music, squeezed onto a field in Reading. Featuring folk and indigenous music from all the continents (probably also including Antarctica if you\'re thinking), this merry collision of culture will certainly be a colourful way to spend a weekend

 

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T in the Park

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Och aye the noo! For those in bonnie Scotland, you won\'t have to travel far for your fill of festivals. T in the Park is traditionally Scotland\'s biggest rock and pop festival, with 80,000 people expected, the headliners this year being Artic Monkeys, The Killers and the Beach Boy\'s own Brian Wilson. Good vibrations all round!

 

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Glastonbury

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Nothing need be said for this one. If you don\'t already know about it then it\'s time to take your head out the sand, grab a tent and some wellies (you never know), and get yourself down to sunny Somerset for the UK\'s biggest festival of the year. This festival has it all: music, dance, comedy, cinema, arts, and no doubt a few aliens on stilts

 

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival

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If your ears start bleeding due to standing too close to a music-festival PA then get yourself to the Edinburgh festival for some humourous therapy. If you don\'t come out of Edinburgh this summer without rolling on the floor with laughter then you must not have a funny bone in your body. The fringe festival is definitely the biggest performing arts festival in the UK, specialising in making you wet yourself laughing

 

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Cheltenham Jazz Festival

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If you don\'t fancy jumping about in a mosh pit or camping out in a tent, then maybe this would be the best one for you. This week-long festival turns the whole of Cheltenham into one great jazz gig, with the newest sounds in modern, classical and any other form of jazz you can think of. They\'ll hate me for saying this but... nice

 

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Proms in the Park

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If you\'d rather Mozart to Madonna or the thought of a band with less than 30 members is like watching a toddler\'s school performance, then perhaps Proms in the Park is more like your kind of day out. Happening simultaneously in five different cities and screened in the city centre of eight more, there is no excuse not to see this classic festival! (See what I did there?)

 

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Guilfest

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And finally if you are looking for something which caters for a family, there is no better choice than this one. With Radio 2 favourites Supergrass, Morcheeba and Madness filling the Surrey countryside for three days, and with the focus being one where everyone gets involved, kids under 12 get in for free and you can fob them off into a massive play area, there is no excuse for you not to go and boogie on with Baggy Trousers.

 

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Bestival

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Winner of the \'Best Medium Sized Festival\' award at the UK Festival Awards 2005 and 2006, Bestival not only plays host to some of the most exciting acts on the planet (Gossip, Bat for Lashes, James Lavelle, Jose Padilla), but it\'s also the UK\'s biggest fancy-dress party and has fabby extras like the Bollywood cocktail bar, laughter clubs, farmers\' market, kids\' area and much more…

 

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The Big Chill

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The Big Chill excels in promoting a wide range of established and emerging talent from the worlds of music, art, digital media, comedy and theatre, offering great all-round, surround-sound entertainment, within the fairytale setting of Great Malvern...

 

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