06-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Inside the UK's craziest festival with medieval taverns and futuristic techtopia
The 2025 Boomtown festival will run from August 6 to August 10 (SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Boomtown might be the country's trippiest, mind-bending festival, but it's kept pretty meticulously under wraps. Beyond being a major genre-fluid music festival, Boomtown is known for its unique design, stages, characters and experiences grouped together into 'themed districts'.
The 17th annual Boomtown, dubbed 'Power of Now' is set to take place between August 6 and August 10, 2025 at South Downs National Park. The 2025 line-up includes a mix of international stars and big names like Sean Paul, Sex Pistols and Rudimental, as well as infamous DJs Honey Dijon and Jyoty and literally hundreds of more acts.
The festival organisers have declared Boomtown 'the largest interactive theatre in the world' and highly encourage attendees (aka Boomtown citizens) to 'explore different worlds and ways of living' by taking on characters and engaging with the set pieces. It arrives just as a forecast reveals the exact date a 39C heat plume will scorch the UK.
This year's festival boasts 12 main stages and over 50 hidden venues with more than 60,000 people are expected to attend. The 2025 Boomtown festival is already sold out, but resale tickets may become available through the festival's Citizen-to-Citizen Ticket Marketplace.
Below is a snapshot of six of Boomtown's themed districts.
Pretty Irish city that is 'better than Dublin' but has hardly any tourists
'I switched my perfume to a cheaper alternative - and I've never had so many compliments'
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"Will you connect to the mycelium at the heart of Botanica?" organisers inquire. If you're keen to tap into your ethereal fairy/earth goddess energy, this is the place to be. (Boomtown) 2 of 7
Area 404 is an industrial wasteland that is "a refuge for radical revolutionaries, lost kids and punks". In 2024 over 40,000 of Boomtown 'citizens' voted in Boomtown's election, choosing Area 404 and their district spokesperson; The Collector, to lead Boomtown.
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Boomtown has killed off Copper County - it's all about the tinsel town of Copperwood now. This is the place to be for all "aspiring celebrities" looking for glitz, glamour, and the promise of stardom. (Boomtown) 4 of 7
Metropolis is Boomtown's cutting-edge techtopia. Festival-goers are invited to transcend into the digital realm under the guidance of Aurora Venturestone, CEO of Betterverse(TM) - though there may be some negative 'side effects'. (Boomtown) MORE ON
