Beautiful Days 2025
at Escot Park, Ottery St Mary
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Beautiful Days is the Levellers’ independent family music festival organised by DMF Music since its inception in 2003.
As well as several stages including a seated Theatre Tent, the festival has Site Art installations, a huge Children’s Area, Walkabout Theatre, family camping, real ale bars, Folk Sessions and a vast selection of carefully chosen food & craft stalls.
Please visit www.beautifuldays.org/ for more information.
Main Stage
- Frank Turner
- Sex Pistols
- Frank Carter
- Levellers
- Shed Seven
- The Mary Wallopers
- Spiritualized
- Kula Shaker
- Therapy?
- Terrorvision
- Sleeper
- Misty In Roots
- Kid Kapichi
- The Bluetones
- Panic Shack
- Bar Stool Preachers
- Mad Dog Mcrea
- Old Time Sailors
- The Meffs
- Millie Manders & The Shut Up
- Young Knives
- Girlband!
- The Kairos
- Heavy Lungs
- Grandmas House
The Big Top
- Mercury Rev
- Fantastic Negrito
- John Grant
- Kate Rusby
- Julie Fowlis
- Penguin Cafe
- Spell Songs
- Seth Lakeman
- The Elephant Sessions
- John Bramwell
- Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings
- Peter Knight's Gigspanner
- Justin Adams
- Mohamed Errebbaa
- Rianne Downey
- Nick Harper
- Fanny Lumsden
- Amelia Coburn
- Heather Ferrier
- The Autumn Saints
- The Bar-Steward Sons Of Val Doonican
The Little Big Top
Frank Turner
Former singer for hardcore outfit Million Dead turned folk troubadour, Frank Turner has seen his fame flourish through, essentially, the old fashioned route - hard work, continuous gigging and word of mouth. His singer-songwriter solo career steadily grew from cult status to an arena filler, eventually playing London's O2 and Wembley Stadium. It has been an eventful decade for the troubadour from Winchester who now resides in Holloway, North London. Turner released his debut album, “Sleep is For The Week”, in 2007 and has been on a stunning upward curve ever since. He is now one of the country’s most cherished songwriters, a man who plays the biggest venues in the land and whose records reach the higher echelons of the charts but who has never lost sight of his original MO: write, record, tour, repeat. His blend of folk-punk-rock and powerful lyrics has seen him continue playing to an already devoted fanbase, but he picks up new fans with every festival appearance and tour.
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Sex Pistols
In the beginning (of punk) there was chaos...and its name was The Sex Pistols. 1977 saw the band at their peak with the banned 'God Save The Queen' possibly reaching the top of the charts (insert conspiracy theory here) in the month the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee.
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Frank Carter
Making his name with full-bodied, hard-hitting punk rock reinforced with a hard rock undercurrent, Frank Carter has made his name with his bands Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Pure Love.
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Levellers
Brighton's seminal folk-rock outfit formed by Mark Chadwick and Jeremy Cunningham in the late 80s who take their name from the 17th century radical democracy movement. Over the years they've become a staple on festival bills with their crowd pleasing blend of fiddles, guitars and biting political lyrics. Their 14 top 40 singles include the perennial anthems 'One Way', 'Hope Street' and 'What A Beautiful Day', which inspired the name for their annual curated music festival; 'Beautiful Days'.
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Shed Seven
Nineties Brit-Pop group Shed Seven who, fronted by the unmistakable vocals of Rick Witter, brought us hits such as Going For Gold, Chasing Rainbows and Getting Better. Shed Seven formed in York in 1990, out of the ashes of Brockley Haven, they were one of the groups which contributed to the Britpop music scene of the 1990s, but they never received the degree of mainstream success achieved by the likes of Oasis and Blur. The band officially split up in 2003 but reformed in 2007 for a greatest hits tour, and have since continued to play shows around Britain periodically.
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The Mary Wallopers
Brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy and their friend Sean McKenna formed The Mary Wallopers in Dundalk as a three-piece ballad group traveling the length and breadth of Ireland singing and collecting songs. Their early live performances exuded a raw energy and their first five track EP - 2019’s A Mouthful of The Mary Wallopers - perfectly captured their sound and ethos, one filled with warmth, intimacy, chaos and enough sparks ready to light any fire. The band recently expanded to a seven piece for live performances.
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Spiritualized
Singer/guitarist Jason Pierce formed his group Spiritualized from the ashes of trance-rockers , combining his prior band's trademark hypnotic minimalism with uplifting atmospheric lightness that reached a peak with their 1997 classic Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space and the 2001 international chart success Let It Come Down. With extended gaps between releases, Spiritualized continued into the 2010s with Sweet Heart, Sweet Light and And Nothing Hurt. Influenced by The Velvet Underground, La Monte Young, and Steve Reich, Spiritualized staked out a common ground between minimalism and lush symphonics. While powered by simple, repetitious motifs, their songs simultaneously blossomed into rich, shimmering sonic panoramas inspired by the majestic studio wizardry of and . Their very name acknowledged the existence of other forces, further reflected in their heavy debt to gospel and soul music as well as an affinity for mantras and devotional hymns.
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