It’s About To Get Mucky! 48 Hours In A Field At The Mucky Weekender 2023 – TNT Magazine | Maqvi News

It’s around lunchtime by the time I have finally sorted my shit out, and thrown all the stuff in the boot, and pointed the car towards a field near Winchester. It’s going to take about 3.5 hours to get there, so my mate and I stick on some tunes and settle in for the duration, looking forward to what’s forecast to be a scorcher of a weekend. A heat wave in mid-September, who’d a ‘thought it!

I’d been to the very first Mucky Weekender, a few years back and had an absolute blast, so was stoked to be heading back to the wonderful world of Barry Ashworth’s creation aptly called the ‘Mucky Weekender’.

With a relatively tiny population of around 5,000 inhabitants Mucky Weekender is a wee pup in the festival calendar. But don’t be put off by it’s diminutive size, Barry’s black book is crammed full of industry movers and shakers. His band ‘The Dub Pistols’ are renowned for killer collaborations and as Barry once put it “Mucky Weekender” is the ultimate Pistols gig of the year, where we bring everyone together and put on the biggest set we can.

The line up doesn’t stop there, with the likes of Goldie, General Levy, Stereo MC’s, The Selector, Krafty Cuts, Prince Fatty, Ragga Twins and Don Letts. Mucky Weekender is a musical smorgasbord of Beats and basslines.

By this point in the mid-afternoon, we were absolutely buzzing to pull up on site. Getting in the gates was a breeze, the security were present, but not over-bearing. With our weekends stash intact, we wondered over to the campsite like teenagers who had managed to sneak a bottle of vodka out of our parents drinks cabinet without getting busted.