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Boomtown 2026 Review: More Than a Festival, It’s Another World

There are festivals where you spend the weekend moving between stages, ticking artists off a carefully planned schedule. And then there’s Boomtown. Returning to Matterley Estate for Chapter Five: Radical Redesign, Boomtown 2026 once again demonstrated why it occupies such a strange and brilliant corner of UK festival culture. Yes, the music is a huge part of it. Yes, the line-up could comfortably carry a major festival on its own. But reducing Boomtown to the artists playing across its stages completely misses the point. This is a festival designed to be explored. From the moment you enter, Boomtown feels less like a......

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