It was the great anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss who wrote, in the first line of his travel book ‘Tristes Tropiques’: “There’s nothing I hate more than travelers.” Well, for me it’s festivals – just to think of a sea of tents makes me reach for my Beta Blockers. But this summer, if there’s one festival that might make me change my mind, it’s the Vintage At Goodwood.

Held between 13-15 August on the verdant Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, overlooking the sea, Vintage celebrates British design and creativity over five decades from the 1940s to the 1980s.  Even if it has got Sandie Shaw and Lily Allen topping the bill (Allen, thankfully, is not signing but promoting her new line of vintage wear), there’s also The Noisettes, Kid Creole, The Faces and Earth Wind & Fire all gracing the main stage.  But what makes the Vintage festival so unique is an absurdly long list of DJs and performers who have been invited to recreate key scenes from the annals of British musical history. Ranging from the ‘Punky Reggae Party’ with the Buzzcocks, Aswad and Don Letts to the ‘Soul Casino’ with Leroy Hutson, Ann Sexton and Joe Bataan, ‘the Warehouse’ with Andy Weatherhall, Norman Jay and Graeme Park or the 40s Torch Club with old swinger Ray Gelato, we haven’t even mentioned the Roller Disco or the Rockabilly sets. With fashion shows, vintage cars and an exhibition of iconic British design, this sounds like the perfect festival for all you festival haters out there.