OFF THE TRACKS FESTIVAL 2025

29, 30, 31 AUGUST 2025
CASTLE DONINGTON

THANK YOU

What a fantastic festival!

Thank you for coming and making it what it is.

Thanks to the bands, the crew, our hosts Donington Park Farmhouse, the stewards, the traders, the therapists and everyone who contributes to the success of Off The Tracks.

See you next year!

Andy, Boz and the OTT team x

LINEUP 2024

Peatbog Faeries
Dub Pistols
The Beat Feat. Rankin Jnr

Banco de Gaia / The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican / The Leylines / Black Water County

Dr Trippy / Grupo Lokito / Galdorcræft / PO Boys / Roving Crows / The Karma Effect / James Glew / Keepers Brew / Ash Grey & The Burners / Babal / Carol Hodge Band / Jess Silk Trio / Kelly's HeroEs / MonkeyTrial / Ovni and Purusha / Peet Jackson / Phil Cudworth & Boz / Ramblin Preachers / Rogue Turpin / Seas of Mirth / Skarantinos / String Beats / The Raindogs / PROJECT EMPTYHEAD / CLUM / ANDY & GRACE / BATTERY OPERATED ORCHESTRA / HARD ROCKIN AMIGOS / SAM TUCKER?

Nottingham Samba Collective / BLACK PIG MORRIS / DJ Edgie / Dr Matt & DJ LipGlossBoss – Silent Disco

OUR BEAUTIFUL FESTIVAL

This is what we’re all about…

Off The Tracks is many things and all of them good – independent, friendly, relaxing, memorable, exciting, a place to escape and a place to meet new friends. Once you've been, we bet you’ll want to come back.

Our family-friendly festivals are the perfect chance for you to flee to the countryside, let your hair down, chill out and escape the humdrum of everyday life.

Thirty years in the making and still run by Andy and Boz with their dedicated team, Off The Tracks proves that small is beautiful and can still dish up top music and entertainment without being corporate.

SO, HOW DID WE GET HERE?

An amazing 30 plus years ago, Andy and Boz (who would like to deny they’re old enough) were promoting local gigs in and around Derby and wanted to expand. When Andy stayed at the Donington Park Farmhouse Hotel he found the perfect place to start a festival. Less than a year later, Off The Tracks was up and running.

On a gorgeously sunny Saturday in July 1988, the first Off The Tracks was staged. Local heroes No Right Turn topped the bill with great support from just a handful of other local bands.

Boz and Andy say: “Because we’re independent and sponsor-free we’ve never lost the original ethos of Off The Tracks – chilled, family-friendly, with as much relaxation or excitement as you could wish for – you choose!

"We have been helped in our quest to create the perfect small festival by many friends and volunteers over the years, and we’d like to thank them for their generous and continuing support. But don’t just take our word for it. We’ve been named a top 'Small is Beautiful Festival' by the Sunday Times.”

Andy Cooper and Boz Borys

Co-Directors

ABOUT THE VENUE

The wonderful people at beautiful and historic Donington Park Farm are our gracious hosts. When they're not helping put on the loveliest small festival imaginable, they cater for weddings, run a comfortable hotel and campsite, and serve the tastiest food year-round.

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WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

Off The Tracks will celebrate THIRTY YEARS in 2018. Those in the know are already counting down the days. OTT is teeny-tiny but still remains one of the brightest jewels in the UK festival crown. Long may it continue.

You have to thank your lucky stars for Off The Tracks. This is a festival that you can return to year after year, knowing that you're in good hands.

The line-up at OTT is as eclectic and diverse as the audience and the quality is always on the button, indeed OTT is one of those weekends where the line-up is just one part of a much bigger whole. Important yes – but the SCENE is the thing. Great bands don’t make a great festival; it’s the whole OTT package coming together that call the faithful back year after year after year. For instance the festival hosts its own beer festival in a barn alongside the large and well stocked pub.

There's much to be said for the sense of easy comfort and community that fizzes across Donington farmhouse over this weekend. We've all come home. We can all take deep breaths and be calm whilst not having to rush about from stage to stage. These are our friends and we can celebrate being with them.

Off The Tracks always delivers a splendid festival weekend and 2017 was up there with some of their best. That’s praise indeed as this very special festival consistently provides their passionately loyal and appreciative crowd with one of THE festival weekends of the year.

an absolute gem... a unique House Party of epic proportions

ABOUT US

ANDY

Andy has the coolest shades on this planet and is best known for his work as a bass player and songwriter with No Right Turn.

He can also be seen providing bass lines for Neverland, Simon Friend's Seismic Survey, Swamptrash, Dance Cupola, Jayne’s Red House, Prego, and Straight Bends. He tours extensively throughout the United Kingdom and Europe and, when he's not travelling for business he relaxes by, er, even more travelling.

So, you can see that Andy is a busy man who can handle the big stuff - and he’s clearly a bit of a musical tart.

BOZ

This is Boz. When he's not chasing the sun (the shiny object in the sky, not the daily rag) he can be seen playing percussion with Neverland, No Right Turn, and The Rattlers. And, of course, jointly organising the OTT festivals.

A well-known figure in his native Derby, he cuts a dash with his debonair look and addiction to fine headgear – which makes it all the more surprising when this urbane gentleman pounds the life out of a set of drums.

He also throws legendary fancy dress parties. Don't expect to recognise him.

OUR FRIENDS

GRAHAM

This is Graham, photographer extraordinaire. We are grateful that he has been our resident festival photographer over the past years and allows us to use his photos on our website. You can see his work by clicking here.

LYNWEN

This is Lynwen, wordsmith for our website. Proud pedant and grammar geek, this former newspaper journalist turned PR person has nightmares about typos. So, if you spot any, make sure she's had a drink when you point it out. Then step back.

HALUK

Meet Haluk, the creative brains behind our website – keeping it looking fabulous and making sure all the technical bits and bobs behind the scenes work too. This is quite a relief to the rest of the team who are easily puzzled by technology. Also known to frequent gigs and take snaps.

CREW

These lovely dedicated engineers from Loud and Clear are behind our festivals' sound & lighting. They work relentlessly around the clock to treat you with the best audio visual experience. We are lucky to have them on board.