Your guide to the excellent summer of festivals and sport in store for 2024
It’s time for a summer of making epic memories! Whether you’re a sports fan or a festival lover, there’s so much happening…
From the Euros to Edinburgh Fringe, it’s going to be filled with music, sports, art, culture, and unforgettable memories!
Here’s your guide to the best of the fests – and the sporting extravaganzas too:
JUNE
Glastonbury Festival
When: June 26-30
Where: Worthy Farm, Somerset
The most famous music and performing arts festival in the world, featuring top international and local acts across diverse genres. Highlights this year include Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Shania Twain – but there’s so much more to Glasto than just the headliners.
JULY
Wimbledon Championships
When: July 1-14
Where: London, UK
There’s nothing like the thwack-thwack-grunt to signify that summer’s here… if tennis is your thing, then clear your diary to watch the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament, played on grass courts in the heart of south-west London.
The Euros 2024
When: now until July 14
Where: Germany
The 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship features 24 national teams competing across various cities in Germany. Hopes are sky-high that football really could be coming home this summer, meaning some nail-biting games are guaranteed.
Latitude Festival
When: July 18-21
Where: Henham Park, Suffolk
A family-friendly festival that’s a proper melting pot for music, arts and culture; along with superstar legends like Duran Duran, Nile Rodgers & Chic and Rick Astley, there are tons of comedy, theatre and literature performances to take in too.
The Tour de France
When: June 29-July 21
Where: France
The race actually starts in Florence just over the border, squiggling all over France before ending in Paris just before the Olympic torch arrives. This is the 111th edition of the prestigious cycling race, in which Giro d'Italia winner Tadej Pogačar will take on Primož Roglič, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel.
AUGUST
The Summer Olympics
When: July 26-August 11
Where: Paris, France
The world’s largest sporting event is coming to Paris, and from the opening ceremony onwards it promises shedloads of excitement as well as incredible sporting prowess. Costing an eye-watering €8.3bn, Paris 2024 will be the first to feature an identical number of men and women athletes – plus it's the year that breakdancing makes its debut as an Olympic sport!
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
When: August 2-26
Where: Edinburgh, Scotland
The world's largest arts festival offers a vast array of performances including theatre, comedy, dance, and music: expect outlandish action and to be surprised at every turn. And this is one place where you don’t have to shell out a lot to have fun, with 354 free shows and 577 pay-what-you-can shows on the programme.
Reading and Leeds Festivals
When: August 23-25
Where: Bramham Park, Leeds and Richfield Avenue, Reading
If you’re into rock, alternative, and indie music, these twin music festivals have a belter of a line-up for 2024, including Liam Gallagher, Blink 182, Gerry Cinnamon, Lana Del Rey, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Fred Again…
Notting Hill Carnival
When: August 25-26
Where: Notting Hill, London
More free fun is on the cards at this banging street festival over the August bank holiday weekend, celebrating Caribbean culture (and basslines) with colourful parades, great music, and fantastic food.
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