Reminisce Festival

Set in Sherdley Park on the edge of St Helens, this single-day event trades on nostalgia, pulling together the house, disco and pop records that defined clubbing across the nineties and early two-thousands. The bill leans heavily on acts and DJs whose names carry weight with people who were on the dancefloor first time around, and the crowd skews accordingly, with the strict 18-plus door policy keeping it firmly an adult affair. Expect a large, open-field layout with a handful of stages and arenas, singalong choruses, and a daytime-into-evening arc that builds towards a shared closing set rather than tailing off. There is no camping, so the day runs on a fixed timetable from gates to curfew. It tends to suit groups reuniting for a big day out who know the records and want to hear them loud.