The big review: 2000trees festival 2023
The festival artwork for 2000trees is UFO-themed for 2023, imagining flying saucers swooping over the thick woodland around Cheltenham’s Upcote Farm to whisk punters to another world. There are a late-night blank patches in our memory but, in fairness, that’s probably more to do with too many of the festival’s trademark ‘beeros’ than any extraterrestrial incursion. What’s more out of this world is how this grassroots gathering has managed to grow into a celebration of all things alternative while retaining its gorgeous Cotswold character: the local Women’s Institute selling baked goods within spitting distance of Texan bruisers Kublai Khan TX dropping some of the nastiest beatdowns you’ve ever heard; dairy products from cattle in the surrounding fields available to soothe ...
