Festivals 2026....who owns what?

With no Glasto happening next year there is a veritable smorgasbord of festivals you can consider to spend your hard earned $$$ at in 2026. Glasto remains a family run festival with profits in the year up to 2024 of £4m and donations to charities in that year of £5m. Nice!

But for 2026 it all depends on the line ups for sure but also where are those hard earned pounds and dollars going??....

To help you we've listed some of the UKs summer festivals (with a couple of others worth mentioning) and who owns what. Happy festival season!!

UK Based:

Field Day - May - Owned by Superstruct Entertainment - a.ka. KKR Private Equity

Green Man - August - Owned by Fiona Stewart - Independent

Wilderness - July - Owned by Festival Republic Music Group LTD a.k.a Live Nation

Latitude - July - Owned by Festival Republic a.k.a Live Nation

Boomtown - August - Owned by Lak Mitchell & Chris Rutherford (55%) Live Nation (18%) Gaiety Investments (18%) SJM Concerts (9%)

Houghton - August - Owned by Craig Richards. Links to Gottwood Festival

Roundhay - July - Owned by AEG presents (also do BST Hyde Park)

Forwards Festival - August - Owned by Love (Love saves the day) & AEG Presents

Global:

Benicassim - Spain - July - Owned by The Music Republic - a.k.a Superstruct a.k.a KKR Private Equity

Sziget - Hungary - August - Owned by Karoly Gerendai and management. Sold back to them by SuperStruct (KKR) after they exited the Hungary market....no longer profitable for them!

Tomorrowland - July - Owned by Manu and Michiel Beers - Independent

Afro Nation - July - Portugal - Owned by The Malachite Group

Way Out West - August - Sweden - Owned by ... Unclear. Promoters Luger and Patrick Fredriksson with partnerships to Live Nation