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Secret Garden Party

Arts and music festival in England

Summary

Arts and music festival in England

Field	Value
music_festival_name	Secret Garden Party
location	Abbots Ripton, England
years_active	2002–2017, 2022–present
dates	July (4 days)
genre	Rock, World, Electronic, Reggae, Folk, Dance, House, Alternative
website	secretgardenparty.com

The Secret Garden Party, often colloquially shortened to the SGP, is an independent arts and music festival held in Abbots Ripton, England. The location is on part of the grounds of a Georgian farmhouse and has its own lakes, river and landscaped gardens. The festival was launched by Fred Fellowes and James Whewell in 2004 as an alternative to the established mainstream music festivals. Since its inception, the festival has increased in popularity and size, and has grown from one stage and 300 visitors in 2002, to more than 15 stages and 35,000 revellers in 2017.

In March 2017, it was announced that the 2017 edition would be the last.

During its initial 15-year run, The Secret Garden Party won the UK Festival Award for Best Small-Sized Festival in 2005 and 2008, and then the Award for Best Medium-Sized Festival in 2011. It also won the Act of Independence award from the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) for its work with The Loop, a harm reduction charity that tested drugs on site during the event. This practice has now been adopted by some other UK festivals.

In August 2021, it was announced that after a five-year hiatus, the Secret Garden Party would return in summer 2022. On relaunching, 20,000 tickets were placed on sale and sold out in under 20 minutes via a registration process that featured a questionnaire. The event took place from 21 to 24 July 2022 in Cambridgeshire, with the line-up announced each day of the festival.

The Secret Garden Party supports The Campaign Against Living Miserably that aims to prevent male suicide in the United Kingdom, as well as mental health charity My Black Dog as of 2022.

Lineups

2004

KT Tunstall
The Egg
The Basics
Tallula
Carina Round

2005

Super Furry Animals
Desmond Dekker
Mando Diao
Regina Spektor
Adam Freeland
The Noisettes
Boy Kill Boy

2006

Lily Allen
Indigo Moss
OK GO
The Hair
Arlo Guthrie

2007

26–29 July

Echo & The Bunnymen
Indigo Moss
The Noisettes
The Sunshine Underground
New Young Pony Club
Alabama 3

2008

24–27 July

Grace Jones
Morcheeba
Alphabeat
Shout Out Louds
Florence & The Machine
Metronomy
My Pretend Orchestra
Eugene Francis Jnr
Noah and the Whale
Mumford and Sons

2009

23–26 July

Jarvis Cocker
Emiliana Torrini
The XX
Adam Freeland
EMF
Emmy the Great
Cocosuma

2010

22–25 July

Gorillaz
Marina and the Diamonds
Echaskech
Hybrid
Cloud Control
Eliza Doolittle
Animal Kingdom
Mystery Jets
Infadels
Crystal Fighters

2011

21–24 July

Blondie
Leftfield
Cosmo Jarvis
Adam Freeland
Matt and Kim
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Mystery Jets
I am Kloot

2012

19–22 July

Orbital
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
KT Tunstall
Little Roy
Caravan Palace
Little Dragon
Alabama Shakes
Tim Minchin
Lamb
Lianne La Havas
The Ladykillers
Bastille

2013

25–28 July

Faithless
Regina Spektor
2ManyDJs
Django Django
David Icke
The Ladykillers
SYKUR
Bastille
Phildel

Attendance: 29,000

2014

24–27 July

Little Dragon
Sub Focus
My Nu Leng
Clean Bandit
MØ
Gorgon City
Morcheeba
Sigma
Matrix and Futurebound
The Skints
Years and Years
Fat Freddy's Drop

2015

23-26 July

Kae Tempest
Caravan Palace
Jungle

2016

21-24 July

Caribou
Dua Lipa
Air
The Temper Trap
Field Music

Primal Scream were due to appear but cancelled shortly before the festival.

2017

20-23 July

Crystal Fighters
Metronomy
Toots and the Maytals
Peaches
Flint Moore

2022

21 - 24 July

Arielle Free
Dirty Harry
Easy Life
The Egg
Woody Cook

2023

20-23 July

Dirty Harry
Fabio & Grooverider
Fat Freddy's drop
Grandmaster Flash
Leftfield
The Libertines
Underworld
Woody Cook

2024

Notes

References

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(September 2021). "Secret Garden Party: Festival returns after five-year break". BBC News.
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