Twickenham's High Tide Festival 2024 dubbed the 'best yet'
By Cesar Medina 8th Aug 2024
Volunteer-run Twickenham festival, High Tide 2024 was hailed as "the best yet" with more than 80 bands performing on Sunday, 28 July.
The free south west London festival saw residents from Twickenham and beyond, head down to the area, listen to great music and support local businesses.
Made possible with support from Richmond Council, Discover Twickenham BID, individual local businesses and crowd funders.
This year 70 individual businesses and over 300 crowd funders helped made High Tide happen, ensuring all bands and acts were fully paid.
Co-owner of Eel Pie Records, Kevin Jones said: "Well, the sun shone brightly for High Tide 2024 and so did all of the 80+ bands and artists that played for us at, what is being said around Twickenham, the best High Tide yet.
"The beautiful weather and the wonderfully diverse music on offer brought the crowds out and created a bumper day for many Twickenham businesses.
"The sense of love in the air was palpable with everyone enjoying one of the best free days out in the south west London cultural calendar."
During the festival, St Mary's University carried out a survey of attendees and some of the initial findings are:
- 79% said it was important for Twickenham to have a music festival
- 89% said that High Tide plays an important part in supporting grassroots music
- 93% said that High Tide plays an important role in promoting community well being
- 36% of attendees came from outside LB Richmond
- 100% said they spent on a Twickenham business during their time at High Tide
To find out more and support High Tide Festival, follow @HighTideTwick on Instagram and be the first to hear details about High Tide 2025.
To find out more about the curators of High Tide Festival, Eel Pie Records, click here.
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