Timeout said:
Officially London's nicest festival, Fruitstock takes place every August in Regent's Park and organised by the people behind Innocent Smoothies. The festival features live music, DJ's, farmers market, cake stand, yoga lessons, poetry slam, reading areas, and knitting corners!
Dave did:
Same location, same time of year...just a different name! Fruitstock is, alas, no more! In its place however, Innocent have brought in the Innocent Village Fete (pronounced FA-IT as I was made very aware of...not Feh-t as I first believed!)
Well I cannot recommend this festival highly enough, the whole day was just amazing and so much fun! I started off by meeting up with some friends and then heading in, pausing for the obligatory photo shot obviously:
Once in, we headed straight for the 'Agility Dogs' show (we missed the Duck Herding...GUTTED!). Some dogs were fast, some were slow, some didn't even pay attention to the obstacles laid out in front of them, but overall is was a good laugh!
After that induction we ended up wandering around all over the place, we were at the live music tent, then over to the bandstand for dancing lessons, then next door to the knitting tent (see Thing #94), and then some feret racing before ending the night with Gino Washington (apparently the next best thing to James Brown back in the 60's!).
I definitely recommend this to anyone. For £5 (where all profit after costs go straight to charity) it is exactly like a music festival just without the huge names! The atmosphere is brilliant and there's so many weird and wonderful things to try out that people are more than happy to help you to learn and understand!
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