Now despite the UK’s washout summer – organisers are determined the party will go on at this weekend’s Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire.
With their remote, rural locations, campsites and uneven terrain – music festivals are notoriously inaccessible for people with disabilities or long term care.
But some people are trying to change all that – our reporter Reuben Reuter has been to meet the team at Festival Spirit who are working to make them truly open to all.