Ben and Jerry's Sundae on the Common

Ben and Jerry's Summer Sundae is an annual event and has been going for about 5 years now. It occurs on one weekend each year (usually in June) and it takes over Clapham Common for both the Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are usually only about £13 (plus booking fees and postage though) and for that you get all the free ice-cream you can eat (in all of the Ben and Jerry's flavours), fun activities (toe-wrestling, helter skelter etc) and a day of live music. There is only one stage at Summer Sundae and the music there usually kicks off at about midday and goes on until about 8pm. For that you get roughly 8 acts over the course of the day and the ...  Read the complete review

The Sundae on the common is a hidden gem. As much Ben and Jerrys as you can eat and live music- what more could you ask for? Tickets are about £10 and you can check out the band line up on the website. Last year "The Feeling" were there, and i think as the Sundae gets bigger they will get even bigger bands (The Feeling rock!). In addition to Ben and Jerrys ice cream there are other ethical food outlets selling lovely organic and gourmet food such as Pieminster and fine burger company. Other attractions include mystic moo, a helter skelter, city farm- where you can meet the animals, ice you own cookies, candle dipping, flavour graveyard and many ...  Read the complete review

I will try to make this review make as much sense as possible, but it's hard to order it when it was all so good so bare with me! I went to this festival for the first time this year, it took place on the 26th and 27th of July on Clapham Common. It was fairly easy to get to (but wasn't signposted) from the tube station, about a 10 minute walk. As the festival was on there were various brands hading out cereal bars, cans of drink and goodie bags as you walked along the route to the festival which was nice! The doors officially opened at 12pm, but I went in at 12.30 and there were about 30 people in there! There was a band playing but unfortunately for them there was ...  Read the complete review