We’re back! After the magic of Livestock 2010, and the mayhem of clearing up afterwards, we decided to put the festival out to grass for a year.

Now plans for Livestock 2012 are taking shape, and we’re getting rightly excited.

We’re picking up where we left off – in a field at Hall Farm. Last time around, our first-ever Family Field Day was a huge hit, especially with the under-10s. This time we’ll be moving Livestock from the pub to the pasture for the entire weekend, so we can bring you the ferrets, alpacas and vintage tractors. And you can bring the kids.

At this stage, we can tell you just a little about what to expect from the music: virtuoso performers from all over the world, local folk and country bands, jug bands, string bands and swing bands. And maybe some apocalyptic Morris dancing for good measure. We can’t tell you much more than that. Livestock has a habit of creating extraordinary musical surprises.

We’ll be bringing back the Scribestock stage, upon which writers and musicians collide in moving and hilarious adventures. There’ll be activities and sideshows for the kids, as well as delicious international food, with Argentine asado and homestyle Indian curry.

And as if that’s not enough, for these straitened times we’ve dropped the price of a weekend ticket to forty quid.

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