Stourfest 2025: Good music, good food and drink and good times at Stourbridge's popular community festival

The event at Stourbridge Rugby Club on Saturday featured some high quality cover bands playing music from the likes of Elton John, Mumford and Sons, INXS, Kaiser Chiefs and the Arctic Monkeys.

Set across the site of the Stourton-based club, Stourfest 2025 also featured five bars, including a prosecco and a real ale bar, a large marquee, an activity area for youngsters, street traders and plenty of food options throughout the day.

Among the more unique activities was a silent disco, allowing people to wear headphones and dance to whatever type of music they wanted to dance to, while children and adults alike could get their faces painted or have glitter tattoos.

Organiser Tim Dyson said the event had been a real success and was part of efforts by the club to engage with the community.

He said: "It's been fantastic as the weather has really helped us out and we've sold about 4,500 tickets, so it's all gone really well.

"The marquee we have is brilliant as we had a really big corporate event on Friday with a full sit-down, four-star catered meal and so it lends itself brilliantly to an event like Stourfest.

"We've had about 10 tribute acts, street traders, bouncy castles and a generally good family day out, with great weather to go with it and a stunning setting in and around the lovely countryside."

Mr Dyson said the main bar in the marquee was about 30 metres long, which meant very little queueing, and said that the hard work of the volunteers had helped to make the day a success.

He also spoke about how important events like Stourfest were for raising funds for the club at a time when many Rugby Union clubs were struggling to make ends meet.

He said: "We're a community club and we've been successful, but Rugby in general is struggling somewhat to make ends meet due to various changes by the governing body and so, one way or another, we have to make ends meet.

"It's getting more and more expensive and difficult, so we need to do these events to generate profits, but at the same time, we are also a community club and we want to be useful to the community by providing top-quality entertainment in a secure environment.

"I'm one of the many volunteers who has made this work, but it's down to the hard work of Chris Rowe, who is the head honcho in putting this together, that this event has been a success and we're already planning to Stourfest 2026."