Our Story
From the Fields is a passionate collection of producers, bookers and marketers with a strong record of delivering award-winning and critically acclaimed programmes, with an exemplary reputation. With 2018, we are celebrating our most successful year to date.
FTF works on an extensive range of creative projects, from multi-genre, multi-arena festivals through to Arts Council-funded artistic events, parades and installations. Our music curation has welcomed some of the world's biggest live acts to our events; recent years have included The Chemical Brothers, Flaming Lips, Calvin Harris, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Sigur Ros, Snoop Dogg, Mumford and Sons, Elbow, Pixies, Orbital, Blondie, Dizzee Rascal and so many more. In the last decade, nine Mercury Prize winners and over twenty nominees have passed through our gates.
bluedot has developed a reputation as a vital new force in the festival season, with a commitment to removing the boundaries between arts, science, music and culture. Luke Jerram’s ‘Earth’ had its world premiere at bluedot 2018. The Chemical Brothers performed their new show - and with it, brand new material - for the first time in the UK at bluedot 2018. And alongside our ever-expanding programme of genuinely world-famous scientists and thinkers - Richard Dawkins in conversation with Jim al-Khalili (President Elect of the British Science Association); the BBC’s Dallas Campbell and Alice Roberts; UK Space Agency’s Libby Jackson - we grew our cutting-edge electronic music line-up to include the trailblazing likes of Gilles Peterson, Joy Orbison and Helena Hauff (the first female winner of BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix of the Year).
While the size and shape of our flagship events have grown over time, their values remain the same: innovation, creativity, and a core commitment to improving festival-goer experience and providing value for money.
