Enter the magical Kingdom of Loxwood this summer!

You can stand back, watch, listen and enjoy – or you can plunge right in, immersing yourself deep in another world.

Transcript

00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Six Newspapers. Now he's wearing

00:06the t-shirt. Of course he is Danny Bacon, mastermind of the Lockswood Jamst. And it

00:11really is quite something that's coming up this August over three weekends, extended from two

00:16to three for last year, three again this year. And you're saying it's a festival that just

00:21doesn't sit on its laurels. You feel that you always have to be developing, improving,

00:27moving forward with the whole thing, don't you? Absolutely, absolutely. I think the key,

00:31the key thing for us is to keep constantly developing, evolving it. It's sort of build,

00:36turning into its own world in this sort of kingdom of Lockswood, referred to it as where

00:42the sky's the limit of what we can, how, where it can go. And each year the beautiful thing is,

00:47is we create different storylines each year as well, which allows us to then develop something

00:53each year and to then the continuation of the storyline to really make it something

00:58different and grow every time as well. And the lovely thing is that really it's up to the

01:02businesses to make it what they want. You can come and enjoy in a sort of slightly standing back,

01:08watch, move on, that was good type way. Or will you explain, you can become absolutely

01:13deeply part of this world that you create, can't you? Absolutely. So you can, like you said,

01:19you can literally come in your jeans and t-shirts, come and have a drink, watch some jousting,

01:23watch bands, watch fulconry, go and see some knights fighting, have a lovely time and then just

01:29go home. Or you can literally come and walk into the kingdom in a character, an archetype from the

01:34Lockswood Kingdom of Lockswood, get involved with all the actors and people involved in that world

01:41and go on quests, solve murder mysteries, help the characters live their life and really play it out,

01:46as well as watching all of the wonderful things that happen here as well.

01:51And the scale of it all is phenomenal, you're saying probably a couple of hundred people working

01:55on it, or as you prefer, participants. Yeah, we have a lot of amazing people that work here and

02:02help us build this fantastic world and this beautiful place that we build in. So yeah,

02:08really big scale at the moment. With the starting point being a pretty magical setting.

02:12Absolutely. This is a beautiful setting that we don't have to do too much with the aesthetics.

02:18Luckily, we're surrounded in a beautiful woodland and a beautiful meadow surrounded by trees that

02:22can help us really make the insides, make you really feel like you've stepped into this world.

02:28So fantastic. And Danny, just say the dates, it's August, I've got them, August the 2nd to the 17th,

02:35isn't it? The three weekends, the three weekends, 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th, 16th, 17th.

02:40Fantastic. Well, congratulations on all the work. Wishing you lots of fantastic weather and

02:45crowds by the 1,000. Lovely to speak to you again, Danny. Thank you very much.

02:49Thank you, Phil. Really appreciate it.