Skyglowmusicfestival Reviews 

An absolute con. It was advertised as a festival for children, but when we arrived it was full of groups of adults in cowboy and cowgirl outfits who were clearly very drunk. It was so overcrowded that we couldn’t even get close to the very small stage in the most unsuited area of the field.

Rides near stage loud causing overlap of sound.

The “kids’ area” was simply a funfair, meaning we paid an entry fee only to have to pay extra for every ride.

The worst part was when the children needed the toilet. We had to queue through the adult festival area, where people were being sick and openly talking about drugs. It was completely inappropriate for a family event and not at all what was advertised. Very disappointing, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to families with young children

Complete and utter rubbish massive scam. All rides and food extortionate prices. Live music is awful. None of the included events ever seem to happen. Inflatable theme park wast on even tho lots of people pre paid for it and probably won’t get refunds. AVOID a waste of a day and money.

I’ll let you have 1 star because to be honest spending time with the kids is always a bonus, but honestly don’t be fooled by the advertisement . Though they put up schedule a day before for there recent Cheltenham event, I saw nothing that they claimed to be on there. No inflatables, no circus, no bumblebee, no glow rave, no led display robot, didn’t see the bikes move though they set up an area for it. No characters and to top it off £3 for a can of Coke, a mile walk to the car park and because of the wind no hot air ballon’s. Complete waste of money, I booked early bird tickets £13 then a couple of weeks before the event they dropped to £5. Tickets were not even checked properly. Oh and the music absolutely shocking honestly sounded awful.

Literally the worst food I've ever had. Beef brisket fries stunk like they had turned. Duck wrap stand equally bad. Singers tone deaf on the most part. Never again. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY HONESTLY!!!!

This was basically a giant fun fair that you would usually enter for free, but with a ticket price! Nothing like advertised. £10 per person to ride a monster truck, not a show. The time we spent cost us over £100. The rides were all cash and overpriced, this wasn’t noted as a cash event. 80% of the space was consumed by the funfair and a small area at the back had a stage for the music. A small gazebo was present for the children’s entertainment that hadn’t even begun when we left, this was the only shade available in the whole event, so was stacked full of people and children with no access left for obvious reasons. I saw no bubble fairies or characters and gave up waiting as the heat was too much.
No inflatable fun fair on sight at all.
I would leave a zero star review if I could. Not as advertised, it’s an overpriced massive cash grab.

I’d give 0 stars if possible, the place is horrendous.
Nothing like what advertised
It’s a big fun fair and you have to pay for everything in there, £10 pp for rides £16 for a
Not even half decent cheeseburger
Rip off bug advertising scam
would never recommend

Opened 30 mins late, everything was ridiculously priced and so lucky we had lunch before attending. Rides £5pp, there was a pink waffle and crep van that was £10 for a waffle with chocolate ane banana and was just one you wack in the toaster 🤦🏼‍♀️. If you dont have money in wouldn't go as so much the kids will want to do but unrealistic prices for most families and be cheaper and better to go to a paultons park or something. Not allowed to take food or drink in (they check bags but i saw loads sneak in food and drink) and a can of fanta was £3 to put into perspective 🤪.

Absolute scam. Not a festival in any way as they're marketing it. Ridiculous prices to get in then no stunts, balloons, glow raves or anything in sight that they promised. If however you like massively over priced rides, food, 8 hook a duck stalls, 9 dart stalls and the WORST impersonators ever, this is the place for you. Contacting companies house too to show how much of a scam they are.

We attended yesterday, at the Nottingham, what an absolute rip off, we had to wait outside for an extra 45 mins no shade no drinks in a heatwave, the staff where rude to people who complained, we got to the bag checking part and the staff where rude again, we got inside it was empty a fun fair ride that was for older kids 5 rides in total, bouncy castle £15 per child 2 hours, one shade tent that was small, it was on two open fields with no shade it had 2 hook a duck stands that started from £6.
Where they had the stage it was so small and every one felt penned in with no shade in 30 degrees heat the food cost so much and then the drinks where the same, we thought it was aimed at children but it didn't seem that way from walking round it had one BMX and bike show with two people, a truck that drove around £10 per person, we left after 3 hours, there doesn't seem to be a way to get a refund on our tickets, absolute off from start to finish. It didn't have half the things advertised!

Absolute con.

We bought family tickets months ago when they first went on sale because the event was advertised as a children’s festival with lots of family-friendly activities.

When we arrived, our tickets weren’t even scanned, which immediately seemed odd. We were then greeted by large numbers of adults wearing cowboy hats at what appeared to be a completely different festival called “This Ain’t Texas.”

Confused, we asked a security guard where the SkyGlow Festival was, and he said he didn’t know. We left the site and checked Google Maps, only to discover we were already at the correct location. There were no clear signs indicating this.

We then met another family and asked if they knew where SkyGlow was. They confirmed that we had been in the right place all along and told us they had spent only around 20 minutes there before leaving because it was nothing like what had been advertised.

We decided to give it a chance and went back in. Once again, nobody scanned our tickets and we walked straight through.

What we found was essentially a glorified funfair with very little resemblance to the family festival we had been sold. The main stage was hosting country music acts, which was not what we had booked for. Most of the rides were aimed at older children or adults rather than younger families. Food prices were excessive (£8 for chips), the advertised motorbike show consisted of two people sitting beside their bikes smoking cigarettes, and there was a fire engine driving around doing doughnuts in a field.

After walking around the site twice, we left. Interestingly, many of the people leaving at the same time were families with young children.

In my opinion, this was a clear case of false advertising. The event was originally promoted as a separate family-focused festival but appears to have later been merged with the “This Ain’t Texas” event. The result was completely different from what was advertised when tickets were sold.

I considered requesting a refund and did some research online. What I found was concerning: there appear to be numerous complaints from last year’s event alleging similar issues, despite the organisers now operating under a different name.

I would not recommend this event to families with young children. If you’re expecting the children’s festival that was originally advertised, you are likely to be very disappointed. The only people who seemed to be getting what they expected were those attending the Texas-themed event.

Skyglow Music Festival, also known as Balloons and Tunes previously, and now more marketed as This Ain’t Texas Festival.

We attended the Driffield event, the second of the organisers planned events for the year. We paid about £15 a ticket which remained the same regardless of whether you purchased the super early bird ticket, the last minute ticket or just a standard ticket.

The event we attended was sold out apparently, and there was a significant amount of people present. The atmosphere was good and the acts, which are all tributes, were not bad.

However there was a couple of issues.

Firstly, the event is marketed as a US themed event, with bbq food and so on. There were plenty of what is now referred to as street food (in other words burger vans which charge double because their food is more ‘street’ than normal) and some gazebo type bars, but certainly no US inspired big BBQ grills etc. and whilst the food was pleasant, it wasn’t earth shatteringly good and certainly not worth the heavily inflated prices charged (£22 a burger, chips extra!)

Likewise the drink was ok, but the majority was cans poured into a plastic glass rather than draught and again, hugely inflated prices (two pints of cider came to over £20).

The biggest issues though were the toilets. Very quickly it was apparent there was not enough. For the men this wasn’t so much of an issue but the women’s queues from the two toilet blocks at either end o the field at one point were almost touching. My wife counted 8 cubicles in total between the two blocks for the women so it was no wonder than many took it upon themselves to enter and use the men’s facilities - something I personally couldn’t care less about however there were some complaints to the security which resulted in some ugly arguments between those desperate to relieve themselves of their recently consumed expensive cider and being prevented.

Now I’m not blaming security for this, they have a job to do and are simply trying to maintain order, however the same security were supposed to be carrying out airport style security checks upon entrance. I didn’t see this happen once. We were neither bag searched or our trolly checked and could have reasonably easily smuggled in anything we wanted. Indeed as the day progressed the ever recognisable smell of a specific herb being smoked started to linger in the air which wasn’t ideal. If security are going to be present, and indeed they should be, then they need to do the job properly at all times, not just when they chose to do so. I would prefer to be delayed entering the event due to effective security checks and searches, than have the toilet policed due to poor organiser planning.

The final issue for us was that camping could have easily been incorporated. The facilities are present (again another toilet block which wasn’t opened!) and there was more than enough room. There were caravans and campers present which I suspect may well have not gone home at the end and this would have made the even far more accessible.

All in all this event shows promise but needs some new event organisers to grip it and do it right, not just chase the £signs for an easy win. If they do fix it, this could continue year on year and grow to be something well worth paying extra to attend and justify the food and drink prices. But at the very least make sure you’ve more toilets!

This is Balloons & Tunes don’t be fooled by the name change! Scammers that have rebranded to “Sky Glow” since they cancelled the scotland event last year and never bothered to reschedule and stole everyones money! Disgusting vile so called “events company”.