The Kite Festival of “music and ideas” has announced a bizarre summer line-up including Nineties band Suede and former PM Sir John Major. Bands such as Hot Chip and the Pretenders will also be alternating appearances with Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell and the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves.
The festival, organised by Tortoise Media, has been dubbed “Glastonbury for centrist dads” by some. “Centrist dads” is shorthand for middle-aged men who yearn for a return to the era of Britpop and consensus politics. (Of course there is already a Glastonbury for centrist dads: it is called Glastonbury.)
