PennFest

PennFest was the music weekend at The Big Park, Penn Street, Buckinghamshire, near Amersham. UK Live Limited, based in Marlow, created it. The site pennfest.net, read on 28 September 2026, is a gambling page: it is kept and is not used as content. The Bucks Free Press says it began in 2011 as a village festival, from about 2,000 people to 10,000 a day. In April 2024 the team spoke of twelve years since the start. Both counts stay side by side. Saturday 22 July 2023 is the night a review closes. The 2024 and 2025 weekends did not take place.

setlist.fm puts the 2017 and 2018 editions at Winchmore Hill Green, and the 2023 one at The Big Park with the label High Wycombe. The paper places the park at Penn Street. Roger Goodgroves, in a photo review, walks a Friday and a Saturday of rain and mud, with no title: the car park was closed on Saturday afternoon. On that Friday's main stage he names Primal Scream, The Charlatans, EMF and Maverick Sabre. On Saturday, James, The Coral, Maximo Park, Cast and Sigma, with pyro and confetti. In the big tent, Becky Hill, Kate Nash and Goldie Lookin Chain. He points to early tickets for 20 and 21 July 2018. The setlist.fm table starts in 2017 and lists five years through 2023.

Sally Churchward, in In-Common on 24 July 2023, with her photos and Chris Elliott's, walks the second day. The day before, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and Johnny Marr had been on. She was not there that Friday: the bill she cites includes Gaz Coombes, Dizzy Fish, The Cuban Brothers, Artful Dodger and Bad Manners, with no song. On Saturday the rain did not stop. A loop of the site took about ten minutes. There were food stalls, a covered VIP area, the Big Top tent, The Warehouse and an Introducing stage. Musical Youth drew one of the first big outdoor crowds. Wild World, Good Thing Going, Never Gonna Give You Up and The Youth of Today were heard. Dennis Seaton promised a 1982 number one and first played snatches of Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and Zoom. Then they launched into Pass the Dutchie.

Embrace came next. They opened with All You Good Good People, from 1997. Danny McNamara asked people to sing Come Back To What You Know, even if it was only la la. He said the first album, The Good Will Out, was 25 years old, and dedicated Nature's Law to fans who had been there since then. He dedicated Gravity to the people in the rain. On the chorus of Ashes he asked them to jump. Corinne Bailey Rae was second from the top. She played Bob Marley's Is This Love. The crowd joined Trouble Sleeping. Put Your Records On was the song that drew the shout. The rest of her own songs have no title in the note.

Bastille closed. They opened with Good Grief, then What You Gonna Do??? and Things We Lost in the Fire. Dan Smith was leaping across the stage. Charlie Barnes turned a somersault with a plugged-in guitar. Kyle Simmons was on keyboards. Will Farquarson described the show for anyone stuck behind an umbrella and said that, ahead of the Bad Blood X tour, he had looked up tutorials for the early songs because he had forgotten them. He then introduced the title track, Bad Blood. Dan said Doom Days suited the weather. He changed trainers for wellies and a hoodie and walked into the mud singing Flaws. On The Draw the crowd made the triangle with their hands and Woody led the gesture. Also heard were Quarter Past Midnight, Of the Night, Weight of Living Pt 2 and a faster take on Happier. On No Angels, Bim Amoako sang with him. Senab Adekunle is named as another regular backing singer. Ella Eyre had sung that song the week before at Alexandra Palace: that is another night. Pompeii began slowly and then the field sang eh eheu. The band had been in the Netherlands the night before: that is not this afternoon either. Afterwards, in the tents, DJ Luck and MC Neat and M Blaze, with no title.

On 15 April 2024 the team announced that the weekend of 19 to 21 July would not happen, because of low sales and high costs, and spoke of regrouping for 2025. Jess Glynne, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Paul Weller were announced: there was no night. A ticket holder could ask for a refund or keep the ticket at the same price. The Bucks Free Press says there was no festival in 2025 either and that an administrator reached UK Live on 22 January 2025. Another administration listing puts 17 January. Both dates stay. The songs the July review closes are Pass the Dutchie, All You Good Good People, Put Your Records On, Good Grief, Flaws and Pompeii.