The Story of End of the Road Festival 2017 in Fifty Photographs
03 September 2017, 23:01
Photography by
Rachel Juarez-Carr
This year’s End of the Road Festival saw Father John Misty’s first UK festival headline slot alongside Perfume Genius, Mac DeMarco, Slowdive, Nadine Shah and Bill Callahan. We take a look back at an amazing four days at the Dorset-based event in fifty pictures
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