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Scotland (Kirkcudbright)
Inspired by writer Anthony Shaffer and director Robin Hardy's 1973 remote thriller-chiller The Wicker Man, this festival pitches camp at East Kirkcarswell Farm, Dumfries and Galloway and is rapidly becoming the biggest alternative festival in Scotland. An enormous Wicker Man is burnt at midnight on Saturday.

The festival fills 120 acres of isolated farmland in deepest Galloway, featuring a main stage, campsite, dance and cult music tents, a children's area, trade stalls, alternative area, bars, a talent stage and food stalls. Profits are ploughed back into future events, so the festival celebrates a community feel, sadly lacking in many of the corporate commercial juggernaut festivals that crowd the summer calendar.

www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk