Love Saves The Day 2026

The Ticket Squad crew attended Love Saves The Day this year, on what was notably our first festival of the year and the hottest weekend of the year so far by a long margin. This year seems to be the year of heat waves, and Love Saves was peak!

The biggest low this year was the heat. Reflecting on the festival, what I hope they will do for next year is to provide more areas of shade for crowds to get some respite. You can't predict the weather, 100%, but it was known this day it was going to be 30 degrees plus at least a week in advance. Just a few more raised coverings would have made a big difference for a crowd that really did squeeze itself under a small number of sheltered covered areas near the stages.

The downside of that is that the sound quality, if you're under a sheltered area, wasn't so good. The choice was to get hot/risk burning and enjoy the music, or chill with your friends in the shade and pick your battles in terms of what you attended. The net result of this, as a group, is we probably attended a couple of less sets than we would have otherwise. We hope the organisers take this on board for next year. Add some more repeaters and point them at the shade, guys, please!

Putting that aside, the location is really a beautiful area. The size of the festival is lovely in that you can easily get around, meet up with your friends, and go from stage to stage. It's never a long walk. There's not too much sound bleed, although in a couple of areas that was a factor.

Overall, the festival offers great value for the ticket price. It's cheap and FUN. This year's lineup was decent, and Sammy Virji put on an amazing show to an ecstatic crowd.

The best sound quality was probably in the big top tent, which also thankfully provided some shade. The main stage sounded pretty good as long as you were in the right spot, but we have to say some of the other stages lacked volume and bass quality. Centre stage was particularly meh. If we had one other piece of feedback for the organisers next year, it's to invest more in the sound systems so that the crowd doesn't have to be quite so tightly packed into the area directly in front of the stage to really enjoy the music at its best.

The crowd at Love Saves The Day was quite varied and diverse, really chill, with great vibes, super friendly, and no agro whatsoever.

Getting in and out was OK. The venue is a little bit out of town. Getting in, there is a decent walk, maybe 35 minutes, from the designated drop-off zone, which would have been fine if it wasn't quite so hot, to be honest. The security queues were long on day 2, and there's no shade on the queue. That was a hot half hour queue to get in.

Getting out was a bit more of a mission, but doable. There are road closures after about 7 pm, which means once you're in, there is only one exit, and it's about a 45 minute walk until you actually exit the park and get to a main road. Ubers were not plentiful after the headliners, as there was a lot of demand. Some of our squad waited up to an hour for an Uber. Others had pre-booked taxis, which we would recommend in future, frankly.