The late May bank holiday weekend. It’s the amuse-bouche of festival season — the excitement for the year’s first noon pre-drinks is palpable, motorbike boots are yet to be muddied, and spirits are understandably high.
Although the hoo-ha surrounding Brockwell Park’s event schedule (the furious local residents, the artist boycott causing a PR nightmare for Field Day) may have snatched the spotlight this year, in Peckham, there’s one word on everyone’s lips, and it’s been there for a while now: GALA.
