Mighty Hoopla 2026 review: Lily Allen shines as our West End Girl at a festival packed with surprises
Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Fortune favours the fabulous, which is perhaps why the sun is out once again for another year of Mighty Hoopla: the UK’s campest, most colourful celebration of all things pop. The festival has got even bigger this time around and, somehow, better, with a legion of stellar performances and a jaw-dropping array of attractions vying for your attention. MEEK by name but certainly not by nature, one of the UK’s most endearing new pop prospects kicks off the afternoon in a flurry of neon tulle. Her defiant anthem “Fabulous” is the perfect start as her sizeable audience chants along with her: “I just got my heart broken but I look f***in’ fabulous/ Yeah I’m back in therapy but I look f***in’ fabulous…” Members of the crowd snap their fans – bearing the legends “C***”, “S**G” or “GAY” – in approval. Strolling around the …
