Stepping into Margate’s Dreamland for the first time pulls you straight into a seaside nostalgia trap. Framed by vintage amusement rides, flickering neon signs, and the cool breeze rolling off the coast, the venue acts as a literal sanctuary. For the fans gathered by the stage, however, this was a long-awaited reunion. With both Orla Gartland and Only The Poets having previously toured as support for Bastille, the entire day felt like a time capsule. It was a perfectly preserved space designed to leave the real world at the turnstiles, allowing everyone to slip into a collective daydream and simply lose themselves in the music.

The Kooks brought 20 years of Inside In / Inside Out to the seaside for a euphoric night of indie nostalgia at Dreamland Margate. There are few places better suited to a celebration of noughties indie than a British seaside town. Throw in a summer evening, the vintage fairground backdrop of Dreamland Margate and several thousand people ready to relive their indie-disco years, and The Kooks' 20th anniversary celebrations for Inside In / Inside Out were always going to feel special.

There are some bands that don't just soundtrack your youth, they help define it. For women who came of age in the 1990s, Garbage and Skunk Anansie were never simply alternative rock bands. They were permission slips. Permission to be loud, complicated, political, vulnerable, angry, glamorous and unapologetically ourselves. Standing beneath the open skies at Dreamland on a warm June evening, surrounded by thousands of women who looked suspiciously like they'd once raided Camden Market in the late '90s, it felt less like a nostalgia trip and more like a reunion with old friends who'd never stopped fighting.

For many remembering their teenage years there will be a nostalgia attached to the feeling of the fair coming to town. The smell of burgers, the glittering of the lights on the rides, sticky fingers from candyfloss and the excited, bustling crowds. Dreamland in Margate facilitates a trip down memory lane with all of the above whilst hosting pivotal artists that were a big part of the soundtrack of those heady days for many. As a part of the Margate Summer Series line up, McFly brought their party vibes to the Kent coast.

Pendulum have a mystic that is quite hard to define. They seen timeless, illusive and monumental whilst also utterly modern, tangible, and at Dreamland in Margate, within arm's reach. With them, Pendulum brought a trio of varied and exciting supports for a sunny day adjacent to the beach.