If you want to find out about Big Love Festival, you’re in the right place. We are a 3-day music and arts festival set in the stunning South Wales countryside. We host over 130 live acts and DJs, plus circus performance, creative workshops, comedy and art installations.
Big Love is the small festival with the big heart – this year we’re expecting to welcome 2000 people through our gates.
A recap of Big Love Festival 2022
Have previously been at Baskerville Hall, 2022 was our first year at a brand new and outdoor site in Usk, Wales. See how it went down here:
Highlights in 2022 included:
- Drum & Bass legend LTJ Bukem – performing his set on top of a vintage fire engine
- Festival favourite Beans on Toast with a hilariously emotive set on the Love Live Stage
- Locals Afro Cluster
- Dance pioneers Transglobal Underground
Other memorable moments were provided by the wonderful Panic Shack, award-winning Welsh band Adwaith, Hippo Sound System, Mista Trick live, Josh Skints and The Showhawk Duo.
Fabric resident Bobby. and DJ and producer Kepler headlined the secluded forest dome stage, alongside DJs from Cardiff promoter DELETE.
Big Love 2022 photo gallery
Here’s our galleries from 2022. Thank you to Mark O’Brien for capturing the festival so perfectly.
More about Big Love
Big Love is a small, independent music and arts festival with a DIY attitude. We’ve been welcoming people to the festival since 2016, initially to Baskerville Hall, and now to our new home in Usk – complete with an Iron Age hill fort! – just a few minutes from the M4.
Past line-ups at Big Love Festival
Big Love 2020/2021
Sadly Big Love had to miss its 5th birthday and took a hiatus for two years because of COVID-19. Acts that we had booked for 2020/21 included LTJ Bukem, Beans on Toast, Hamish + Toby, Electric Swing Circus, The Undercover Hippy, Dr Syntax, Mr Tea & The Minions, Adwaith, Gene On Earth, Aries, Uncle Dugs and Father Funk. See the full 2020/2021 lineup…
Big Love 2019
In 2019 we had headline sets from The Dutty Moonshine Big Band, Too Many T’s, Dr Meaker and Jurassic 5’s Soup in The Fullee Love Collective. Other highlights included Dr Syntax, Gardna, Phibes, Bodhi, Kioko, Evan Baggs, Tropical Tea Party, Leo Pol Live, Concrete Junglists, Aleighcia Scott. See the full 2019 lineup…
Big Love 2018
Sian Evans (Kosheen) and Oh My God! It’s The Church headlined in 2018, with The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show, Joy Orbison, Xylaroo, Captain Accident & The Disasters, Dana Immanuel & The Stolen Band, Bleedin’ Noses, Timbali, Stagga & Magugu, Johnny Cage & The Voodoogroove, and Codewalkers. See the full 2018 lineup…
Big Love 2017
For Big Love’s second year, we were delighted to have hip-hop legend KRS-One headlining (performing his entire set amongst the audience!), along with the likes of Horse Meat Disco, Flamingods, András, rave legend DJ Slipmatt, Call Super, Blue Lab Beats, Penya, Esa Williams and Snapped Ankles. See the full 2017 lineup…
Big Love 2016
2016 marked Big Love Festival’s first year after the success we’d previously had with Troyfest. The inaugural Big Love Festival included acts like Ibibio Sound Machine, alongside Wrongtom & the Ragga Twins, Andy Cooper (Ugly Duckling) with DJ Moneyshot (The Allergies), Soom T & J-Star, Beans on Toast, Afrikan Boy, Jodie Abacus, Shades of Rhythm, Rumpsteppers, Alfresco Disco, and The Fantasy Orchestra. See the full 2016 lineup…