Summer festival season is well underway in the UK. As a new parent, when the year's festival announcements started to roll out, I looked at them in the same way I have viewed every major tour, live music event or general Big Night Out announced over the last two years, which is with the mindset that, well, sounds like fun, but it's probably Not For Me. But the more announcements I saw, the more a little voice in the back of my head kept asking... going to a festival with a kid – would it really be so bad? So, in the spirit of investigative journalism, I decided to try it out.
I chose two festivals which represent very different ends of the festival experience: 2000trees, a small-scale festival hidden away in rural Cheltenham with a bill of small-to-medium-sized bands (headliners included Soft Play, Bullet For My Valentine, Frank Carter), and Bruce Springsteen's second night at British Summer Time, a sprawling 10-day event made up of a series of standalone one-day festivals, with big artists, big productions and even bigger crowds.
