Sonic Fields

Sonic Fields

Gold at British Podcast Awards 2025 for Arts & Culture. 'Life affirming...A beautiful, gross-generational celebration' The Guardian. Sonic Fields tells the story of a year-long deep dive into the British Music Festival. Sam Tyler meets the people and learns about the forces that have shaped the story since the late '60s, before taking a dizzying summer adventure across festivals of today and trying to find his place within it all. This is a story of how we arrived at our modern festival landscape. And what might we have lost or gained along the way...

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March 30, 2026 53 mins

An on-stage interview about Sonic Fields at DS Podcast festival. Alongside Eppo Jansen, founder of Pukkelpop music festival. 

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Part 3 of Sam's Glastonbury adventure and final chapter of the Sonic Fields story. 

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January 14, 2025 42 mins

Away from the major stages, Sam takes a trip with his brother Jake...


Tickets for Sonic Fields - A night of live music - 
Feb 1st / Saturday / New River Studios 

https://www.fatsoma.com/e/ucb1ctcc/sonic-fields-a-night-of-live-music

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December 19, 2024 71 mins

A story about a Glastonbury adventure and one about it's history, going back to 1970 and beyond...

Sonic Fields live show tickets available here...

Sat, February 1st / New River Studios / N4
A night of live music

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August 20, 2024 62 mins

After the transcendental happenings at the other Glastonbury in 1990, a spark is lit for this new incarnation of free festivals...

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July 15, 2024 37 mins

Part 1 of the next chapter of this festival story. Over 2 episodes we journey from The Battle of the Beanfield in '85 right up to Castlemorton Common in '92. Britain's biggest ever Illegal rave. But first, we need to stop via a field in Glastonbury, on the summer solstice in 1990...

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July 3, 2024 70 mins

What happened to those that left Isle of Wight 1970 with an idea to do things differently? They began a free festival movement with Stonehenge as its cathedral. 

Produced by Sam Tyler & Evan Green.

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June 18, 2024 60 mins

An explosive beginning to this story emerges and Sam travels to Oxford to meet Ray Foulk, one of three brothers that founded the original Isle of Wight festival. Ray's inside story gives a remarkable insight into the biggest ever festival in Britain - when 600'000 people came to IOW  in 1970.  How would this extraordinary event shape the future of the music festival...

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June 17, 2024 34 mins

Sam's story of Britain's festival past begins with the opening of two things - a new book and a box of family photos. Soon after a journey to the Welsh border, gets a year long exploration under way...

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May 23, 2024 2 mins

Sonic Fields trailer. Released June 18th.

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