Secret Garden Party set to end after final festival this summer

The seasonal staple has scooped multiple awards throughout its life, and is known for a certain je ne sais quoi that other festivals can't replicate for love nor money.

This year's finalé will feature a bumper list of names, including Jagwar Ma, Metronomy, Deap Vally, Wild Beasts, Peaches, Crystal Fighters, Toothless, Ray BLK, Let's Eat Grandma, Pumarosa, Kate Nash, Rejjie Snow, Bonzai, and loads more.

Founder and Head Gardener Freddie Fellowes writes in a statement:

"The Garden Party has defined and redefined outdoor events in the UK; we have done so as a collective of truly independent outsiders. We have never compromised our principles and we never will. SGP has always been a beacon of what you can do within those terms and, as imitation (being the sincerest form of flattery) proves, it has set the bar for everyone else going forward.

"But it is exactly because of those principles, and the love of those who have made the Garden Party what it is, that we are committing this senseless act of beauty. What better way to honour the love that has been given to this project and wholly demonstrate this principle than finishing now? This isn’t some principled self-immolation: this is opening up it for the future. So this summer will be the almighty send-off that the Garden Party deserves and whilst that is going to cause some tears to be shed, think of it more as ‘Dylan goes electric’ than our Altamont.

"Because after all you can’t be avant-garde from within an institution and lest we forget: the frontier always moves."

Fellowes has also provided a sayonara mix, which you can hear below.