Fortune favours the fabulous, which is perhaps why the sun is out once again for another year of Mighty Hoopla: the UK’s campest, most colourful celebration of all things pop. The festival has got even bigger this time around and, somehow, better, with a legion of stellar performances and a jaw-dropping array of attractions vying for your attention.
MEEK by name but certainly not by nature, one of the UK’s most endearing new pop prospects kicks off the afternoon in a flurry of neon tulle. Her defiant anthem “Fabulous” is the perfect start as her sizeable audience chants along with her: “I just got my heart broken but I look f***in’ fabulous/ Yeah I’m back in therapy but I look f***in’ fabulous…” Members of the crowd snap their fans – bearing the legends “C***”, “S**G” or “GAY” – in approval.
