Noisily Festival

Noisily Festival at a glance

Noisily began in 2012 when four friends with production experience set out to create the kind of small woodland party they wanted to attend. It grew at Coney Woods in Leicestershire into a distinctive multi-scene electronic festival where techno, Psytrance, bass music, installation art and wellbeing culture all have substantial space.

The festival later moved to Barkestone Wood near Grantham, retaining the idea of a dance festival hidden inside a working woodland landscape. Its principal music identities are clearly separated: the Noisily Stage is rooted in techno, the Liquid Stage is the psychedelic heart of the event, and the Treehouse explores bass music. Mind, Body & Soul adds yoga, meditation, therapies, talks and workshops.

Current official material still presents Noisily as an ongoing annual project and refers to future editions, so the festival remains active despite inconsistencies and stale year references across parts of the website.

How Noisily Festival evolved

Noisily’s first edition took place in 2012 and the festival expanded gradually rather than arriving at full scale. Coney Woods became central to its identity, allowing stages and art to be built into forest clearings rather than on an open showground.

The pandemic interrupted the normal sequence, after which Noisily returned and eventually relocated to Barkestone Wood near Grantham. That move required rebuilding paths, access and stage infrastructure in a new woodland while trying to preserve the intimate feel of the earlier site. By the mid-2020s the event described itself as entering its twelfth edition.

Music, programming & dancefloors

Noisily deliberately serves several electronic communities. The Noisily Stage focuses on techno and related club sounds; the Liquid Stage hosts Psytrance and psychedelic electronic artists; and the Treehouse covers drum and bass, jungle, bass and adjacent forms.

The Liquid Stage is especially relevant to ViralFlowMusic because it connects the UK Psytrance scene to a festival whose overall identity is broader than Psytrance. That makes Noisily a crossover festival , not a pure psychedelic-trance gathering.

Role in psytrance festival culture

Noisily is a strong example of the UK boutique-festival model: relatively intimate scale, high production values, underground music and a large parallel programme around art and personal wellbeing. It has built a repeat community without relying on mainstream headline culture.

The Mind, Body & Soul area is unusually developed for a UK electronic festival, integrating therapies, movement, discussion and meditation into the event instead of treating them as token daytime activities.

Place, setting & atmosphere

The current site combines farmland and woodland near Grantham. Organisers use traffic-management plans, encourage car sharing, operate campsite controls and build temporary pathways to reduce pressure on the woods.

The woodland setting is central to the experience, but it also creates practical constraints around access, weather, ground conditions and local-resident relations. Noisily’s environmental identity is therefore tied to managing a live rural site instead of simply using sustainability language.

What sets Noisily Festival apart

Founded in 2012; originally at Coney Woods; later moved to Barkestone Wood; three strong music identities across techno, Psytrance and bass; immersive woodland production; Mind, Body & Soul programme; art installations and workshops.

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