My greatest mistake: Pete Lawrence

Founder of the Big Chill festival on why he's moved on to Pic-Nic VillageUnlike most festivals, the Big Chill wasn't financed as a festival. It was started out of a flat in Finsbury Park; we had no capital behind it at all. We'd started in 1994 at the Union Chapel in north London, and it was described "as like a festival". Friends started saying, "If you can do a festival in a club, why not do one in a field?" That egged us on; we became festival promoters, in inverted commas. We did the first o...

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