Why Festivals?      Speaking anthropologically, festivals exist for religious reasons, celebrating gods together as offerings and possibly displaying our collective obedience and love to those above – but over centuries the idea of a festival has transcended into celebrations of our united consciousnesses and cultures. A way to bring us together without defining who has a seat at the celebration table.     If you remember your junior school history projects, you may remember that in Ancient Greece, celebrations of art culture, music and theatre were commonplace, of course, always in line with celebrating a God (although, I would question whether that was just an early day political PR tool) and from this you could say that music festivals easily derived from this model of ‘Koilon (or Theatron)’.     A lot like the Milton Keynes Bowl that hosted the UK’s first outing and live recording of Greenday’s ‘American Idiot’ album – the Theatron...