End of the Road Festival is an annual music festival in England which focuses on independent rock and folk music. It is hosted at the Larmer Tree Gardens, on the border of north Dorset and Wiltshire, and usually takes place over the last weekend of August or the first full weekend in September. The first festival took place in 2006, and after selling out for the first time in 2008, it has sold out in advance every year since.
The festival was started by two friends, Simon Taffe and Sofia Hagberg, who continue to run it.
The festival has four stages: the Woods Stage, the Garden Stage, the Big Top Stage and the Tipi Tent, as well as a clearing in the woods around the Garden Stage containing a piano at which semi-secret sets take place. There are also children's areas and workshops, a healing field, a film tent, comedy, a library in the forest and a games area (ping pong, table football etc.). Late night entertainment usually includes high-profile DJ sets, a silent disco, unpublicised pop-up performances and karaoke. Due to the nature of the gardens the festival is set in, it is not unusual to see peacocks wandering around the area and macaws in the trees.
The festival has a capacity of 15,000 (2014).[1] The site opens for camping on Thursday afternoon and the entertainment runs from Thursday evening to Sunday inclusive.
In 2011, the festival won an award for 'Best Small Festival' at the UK Festival Awards. In 2012 claims were made that the festival was secretly organised by Scientology.[2] A statement made by the festival denied these claims, while acknowledging that two members of management were Scientologists. In 2016, 2017 and 2019, the festival won an award for 'Best Small Festival' at the NME Awards.
The Gene Clark No Other Band was a supergroup formed especially to perform Gene Clark's 1974 solo album No Other in full. Having toured the east coast of the US,[6] End of the Road was their sole UK performance.[7]
The 2020 festival was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was due to be headlined by Pixies, Angel Olsen, King Krule and Big Thief, with other notable slots taken by Bright Eyes, Richard Hawley and Little Simz. Some of the acts featured on the proposed line-up would go on to play the 2021 edition of the festival, though this was hampered by notable COVID-19 travel restrictions.
2021 festival
The 2021 festival took place from 2 September to 5 September. The line-up was as follows:
Wu-Lu, Umlauts and Circuit des Yeux also performed. The latter was described in the Guardian's review as having "a baritone that could beach a pod of whales and a falsetto that could calve icebergs".[8]
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