"These smaller festivals are made for serendipity, a chance to wander about and find something new. That is increasingly so today as it soon becomes clear that the times given in the programme bear so scant relation to what’s actually going on on-stage that a printed listing of the contestants in the Hartley Wintney village-fete under-8’s fancy dress would have served just as well."

Bands! Costumes! Apple theft!

All this and more in my review of the 1234 Shoreditch Festival now up on the Art of Noise site.