Buzz gets louder
If you haven’t booked your tickets for this year’s festival yet, don’t hang around much longer! There has been lots about Port Eliot in the press recently and, with the full music and cabaret line-up set to be announced in the next few days, the box office is getting busier by the day…
Here are just a few of the things that have been said about Port Eliot Festival of late (you can also read more from previous years here):
“The fashionista’s favourite festival”
- Sunday Times Style magazine
“Bookworms won’t forgive us for signposting this literary festival, but sod it, why should music fans miss out on its terrific downhome atmosphere, gorgeous Cornish setting and a bill that features the Mercury Prize-winning Talvin Singh, indie sniper Luke Haines, psych oddballs Ralfe Band performing a soundtrack to a film directed by The Mighty Boosh director Paul King and a tent hosted by rock ‘n’ roll nature lovers Caught By The River.”
- Time Out
“Port Eliot has come of age, combining the best of Glastonbury with the cerebral qualities of Hay, on a sweeter and, yes, less smug scale.”
- The Guardian
“Top 5 summer festivals”
- Psychologies magazine
“Think Secret Garden Party meets Bestival, plus books.”
- Elle
“Think Big Chill meets Hay-on-Wye, and you’ve got this boutique literary festival in the beautiful grounds of the Port Eliot stately home in Cornwall’s St Germans.”
- Red magazine
“For open-air imagination tickling”
- Harpers Bazaar
“Port Eliot Festival is gathering a following of like-minded souls who love the intimate house-party atmosphere, where you may find yourself queuing for a curry with historian Simon Schama or rubbing bare shoulders with The Wire actor Dominic West in the hot tub.”
- You magazine
“Influential way beyond its size”
- Plectrum
“The younger, more raggedy, but far cooler, sibling of Hay-on-Wye… At one point I was listening to ex-pro surfer and former editor of Surfing magazine, Jamie Brisick, the next stood next to Hanif Kureishi, one moment taking on Hadley Freeman’s fashion does and don’t, then suddenly in the tiny hours of the morning listening to British Sea Power from a nearby riverbank with new found friends. One of the thoroughly refreshing things about Port Eliot is the stars are there on the lawns with you, a bit like we’re all groundlings in the pit of the Globe theatre enjoying a great party.”
- The Mirror
“This is unlike any other literary event you’ve ever been to with merry-go-rounds and wild swimming in the estuary, wood-fired hot tubs,flower shows, moon-watching and jamming by the river.”
- JoulesClothing.com
