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Media requires JavaScript to play. Beards ahoy! Take a tour of the UK’s most hirsute festival It’s a day of beards, bands and boots. In this case, wellington boots. Caked in mud. No prizes for guessing, then, that this is the first day of the UK summer music festival season. We’re at Bearded Theory, an intimate, but impressive, Derbyshire event. The unusual thing about it is that everyone is encouraged to wear a beard. There’s even a false beard world record attempt being planned – not to mention a “Best Dressed Bearded Wench” competition. It’s only in its second year, but the festival has already been compared to an early incarnation of Glastonbury, something that makes 27-year-old organiser Rich Bryan smile.
“We’ve had that said about us a lot – it’s a very big privilege,” he says, sitting on the tour bus he’s hired as his team’s centre of operations for the weekend.