The Big Chill is a multimedia festival, bar, club event, record label and lifestyle dedicated to transforming the spirit of our times.
The Big Chill offers a highly evolved, all-round experience that is completely unique, with a wide variety of music and performance, art, dance and film; technology and its relationship with nature; identifying artists and nurturing their creativity; It is about synergy, energy,community and fun.
The Big Chill does not have a defined ethos, as such, but Big Chillers have been gradually shaping its feel and flavour over the years through input and involvement.



Big Chill Artists

Music is a key part of our ongoing vision. The Big Chill follows its own musical instincts, and is seen as a tastemaker. As early as 96, Melody Maker described the festival line-up as "full of the messiahs of new music", and many of those messiahs, given early exposure at our events, have now built substantial followings - notable examples being Zero 7, Gotan Project, Royksopp, Tom Middleton, Mr Scruff, Lemon Jelly, Fila Brazillia, Talvin Singh, Bent, Amy Winehouse and Goldfrapp.
Our music policy tends to be anti-genre pigeonholing, as we encourage our DJs to play broad and varied sets. At a Big Chill event, you can expect to hear everything from classical to dance music, including folk, jazz, hip-hop, world music, funk, soul, blues, pop, lounge and ambient.
The Big Chill celebrates creativity in all its forms. It has been at the sharp end of audio-visual developments since its inception, as well as incorporating spoken word, dance performance, film and a wide variety of visual art for the nocturnal Art Trails at our summer events.
The company behind The Big Chill is Chillfest Limited, which is led by Pete Lawrence and Katrina Larkin, in partnership with the Cantaloupe Group.