Almost every year, the number of people to populate a town, decamp to what seems like another country, to live like some ancient civilisation for one weekend of the year. So what’s this massive appeal?

So why is this festival so special then?

Well the sense of inclusiveness fosters a lack of inhibitions which makes people do or say the strangest things, get married for instance, in the Church of the Annihilation, dance to nothing but the noise inside your headphones, go ballroom dancing, or just lie back and watch an amazing trapeze artist for a little while.

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