Got the festival blues after heading home? East Devon News photographed some of the fantastic Back to the 70s costumes that Beautiful Days Festival revellers dreamed up on Sunday.
Beautiful Days always lives up to its name, and the atmosphere of this family festival is something special. Only at Beautiful Days will you find a man dressed as Concorde, the entire Scooby Doo crew with The Mystery Machine, or a family of Rubik's cubes. This year thousands of festival-goers rose to the challenge to create show-stopping costumes.
The Levellers' annual family music festival, held at Escot near Ottery St Mary, always has a spectacular line-up. This year's sell-out event included main stage headliners Super Furry Animals, who reunited after 10 years. On Saturday, August 22, Madness had everyone singing along to hits including Our House, It Must Be Love, House of Fun and Baggy Trousers.
Down the hill at The Bimble Inn, a snug and intimate party continued into the early hours. Over at the Big Top were headliners The Proclaimers and The Divine Comedy.
Billy Bragg, Tanita Tikaram and Cara Dillon joined the packed line-up of back-to-back music. The festival was brought to a close by founders The Levellers on Sunday night when they headlined the Main Stage.
The usual end-of-festival firework finale was cancelled this year as a safety precaution amid ultra-dry ground conditions.
Away from the music, there was children's entertainment and activities, wellbeing therapies, and a vast selection of food catering for all tastes, plus a host of stalls selling eclectic and unique gifts, clothes, jewellery and more.
With entertainment set across six stages, Beautiful Days Festival has something for everyone.
If you have not been before, tickets always sell out fast. See here for more information and updates on the 2027 event.
The 70s theme brought out The Clangers, Angel Delight, Wombles, a gang of Rod Stewarts, the Test Card girl, the Smash robots, and Rainbow's Bungle, Zippy and George, all on show in the festival fields.
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Beautiful Days Festival 2026 Celebrates 70s in East Devon