Beautiful Days festival has announced the full line-up for its 21st year being held at Escot Park on August 16-18.

Artists include Richard Ashcroft, The Saw Doctors, Levellers, Richard Hawley, Fat Freddy’s Drop, The Damned, Toyah & Robert, Fisherman’s Friends, Hard-Fi, Inspiral Carpets, Badly Drawn Boy, New Model Army, Utah Saints and many more.

The festival has music and entertainment over six stages plus walkabout theatre, children’s area, a vast selection of food and traders plus real ale bars run by Devon’s Otter Brewery. The festival is also well known for their colourful Sunday dressing up themes with the 2024 one still to be announced.

Beautiful Days is the Levellers’ annual family music festival organised by Exeter-based DMF Music since its inception in 2003. Proudly independent, and a firm favourite on the Summer calendar, well over 50% of the tickets have already sold for the 2024 event.

Headlining the Main Stage on Friday night are The Saw Doctors. Discovered by Mike Scott from The Waterboys at a show in Galway in the late 80s, their single ‘I Useta Lover’ hit number one in Ireland in 1990 and remains one of the best-selling Irish singles of all time.

The festival’s Saturday headliner is two-time Ivor Novello winner Richard Ashcroft. Frontman with The Verve in the 90’s with hits including 'The Drugs Don't Work', 'Bittersweet Symphony' and 'Lucky Man'. 

Also playing on the Main Stage are seven piece band Fat Freddy's Drop. The Damned have brought their 80’s line-up back together in 2024 with Rat Scabies joining Captain Sensible, David Vanian and Paul Gray. With 12 studio albums and several UK

Four-piece band Hard-Fi. The festival also welcome indie rock band Cast led by frontman John Power. Their classic album 'All Change’ which features the hit singles ‘Alright’ and ‘Finetime’ is approaching its 30th anniversary in 2025.

Also on the Main Stage bill are Lottery Winners who hit #1 in 2023 with their fifth album ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy.

Also on the Main Stage, as do Pop Will Eat Itself, who after disbanding and then briefly reforming have now returned full time to live shows and brand new material in 2024.

Tickets for the 2024 event are on sale now. See the website for the full line-up.