The Sunday at Three Rivers is the closing day of the festival and has the best of the on-site atmosphere for people who have camped: the site quieter than Saturday, Jay Eatwell closing out the programme, and the particular Sunday-of-a-festival feeling that most people who have experienced it would struggle to describe accurately but tend to seek out again. Durrants Farm in Porchfield on a late May Sunday, with the programme winding down through the afternoon.
Sunday at Three Rivers tends to be when the island contingent arrives in numbers: day tickets, people who could not make the full weekend, and the Porchfield regulars who turn up in the afternoon when the site is at its most relaxed. The Medina, Yar, and Newtown rivers that give the festival its name all run through the landscape within a few miles of the site, which is the kind of context that makes the festival feel rooted rather than placed.
Tickets from £80 for the full weekend; Sunday day tickets may be available. Full details and line-up at threeriversfest.uk. More music events on the Isle of Wight through the summer.