ANEXPERIENCE FESTIVAL 2025: PREVIEW

AN EXPERIENCE FESTIVAL 2025: PREVIEW

Small beginnings, bigger field, more cardboard, same soul

29th May 2025

After making quiet waves on a hillside in Wales last year, AnExperience is back this June. It's bigger, bolder, and grounded in its DIY roots. Now taking place on the iconic Secret Garden Party site in Cambridge, it brings more crews, more energy, and plenty of space to let loose.

ALL PHOTO CREDITS - Eddy Hubble

Last summer, AnExperience Festival quietly bloomed on a modest site in rural Wales. It was intimate, DIY, and full of heart. If you’ve been to Kesh’s parties in Bristol you will know this feeling. Now returning for its second year, the festival is growing and about to sell out.

This June 6-9th, AnExperience moves to a new home in Cambridge, set on the same stunning grounds that usually host Secret Garden Party. It’s a big step up in scale, but the ethos remains the same: a grassroots celebration of music, care, and community from Bristol and beyond. While Secret Garden Party won’t be returning this year, the spirit of SGP lives on together with Chai Wallahs at Boomerang Festival in Malta.

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This year forget about chasing big names. AnExperience is about trusting the curators and letting your ears lead the way. Across six unique stages, you'll find a rich mix of genres: from dub to jungle, garage to lovers rock, salsa to ambient. Be ready to stretch out, connect, and feel present in the music.

Some of the stages this year:

Ruffage – Bass pressure and no messing about. Jungle, hardcore, breakbeat and all things that rattle your ribcage. Scotland Yard Soundsystem brings the weight.

Pangea – Diaspora dancefloor heat. Afrobeat, highlife, zouk, and sounds that stretch across continents and generations—all delivered through the mighty Sinai Sound. Come barefoot, come early, stay late.

Downbeat Melody x La Bomba – Sunshine reggae, lovers rock, and rare soul selected by Steve Rice. Roll up, roll slow.

AnExperience might be bigger this year, but it’s still not about wristband hierarchies or clout-chasing. There are no VIP areas and no thousand pound pints, that's absurd. What you will find is a thoughtful, radically welcoming space.

Some added extras:

Free tickets for over 60s

A proper pub (with proper snacks)

A lake you can swim in

Trees to climb

A whole lot of space to be yourself and DANCE

Credit - Eddie Hubble , Save Our Scene

Why It Matters:

With a growing list of UK festivals going under in recent years due to rising costs and unsustainable pressures, hosting a festival is a highly uncertain business. AnExperience feels like a quiet act of mutual, intergenerational resistance.

It proves that grassroots culture is still very much alive when people come together with generosity, care, and good music.

See you there or grab a last minute ticket beofre they sell out! X

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