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Josie da Bank

Voices: I run Camp Bestival with my DJ husband, Rob da Bank – and this is what it’s really like

It started one evening in the early 2000s when my husband Robby, better known to his fans as the DJ Rob da Bank, and I were – to put it politely – a little tipsy.

That eventful night, we hatched a plan to start a brand new music festival that we called Bestival – and even though we hadn’t really thought it through back then, here we are, some 20-odd years later, still running the family-friendly spin-off we launched in 2008, Camp Bestival, albeit with greyer hair, four kids and an ever-patient bank manager.

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