
Bonobo
UK
Beats & Branches is small on purpose. A night camping on a private stretch of ponderosa forest, wrapped either side by a few days in Phoenix. Saturday is the long one: music from eight in the morning straight through to a sunrise set, with a silent disco running alongside from the evening and everybody on the bill in the booth together at four. Nobody is queuing, nobody is being crowd-managed, and the person who booked the bill will be the one handing you an earplug.
Twenty-two hours of it. Nine artists through the day and the small hours, the silent disco from midnight, everyone on the bill in the booth together at four, and Will See closing it as the sun comes up over the trees.
Starts each night while the main programme is still running, and carries on after it stops. Headphones are provided — bring nothing. It is also how the music keeps going without waking the far camp.
Not a crowd, and not a festival trying to become one. By Saturday you will know most of the names, and somebody will have fixed your stove.
Sunday afternoon the camp packs out and it moves to the city: the evening in the studio and streamed on Twitch, which your wristband covers. Monday is a working day, a dinner and a closing set, and it is a separate ticket.
Codes go out on 1 September. Returning attendees can redeem from 7 September, and general tickets follow on 8 September.
$165
The wristband nearly everyone buys. Nothing is fenced off from it.
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Back the weekend, and get first pick when the presale opens.
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A level drive-in pitch with room for a rig. Fully dry — no hookups.
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Roll out of bed into the party. Tents or vehicle camping.
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The upper meadow. No amplified sound, dark skies, actual sleep.
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