May 5

Guide to day festivals – no tent required

Day fes­ti­vals are becom­ing increas­ing­ly pop­u­lar – they give you the fes­ti­val expe­ri­ence with­out the need to take a whole week­end out of your sched­ule. There are lots of new­bies pop­ping up this year cov­er­ing a mul­ti­tude of gen­res, so you can get your fes­ti­val fix and col­lapse into your own cozy bed at the…

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Mar 26

Ultimate summer festival guide 2026

Here’s our fab­u­lous fes­ti­val guide to see you through to the end of Sep­tem­ber. The fes­ti­val land­scape has been chang­ing rapid­ly over the past few years and some have strug­gled to keep afloat, hence we’ve said good­bye to a num­ber of much-loved events. On the upside, new­bies are emerg­ing, with an increase in non-cam­p­ing city…

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Mar 17

Lindisfarne festival 2026, tickets still available

Head for this end-of-sum­mer par­ty from 3–5th Sep­tem­ber at the glo­ri­ous beach set­ting at Beal Farm, Northum­ber­land. And the line­up for Lind­is­farne isn’t half bad either… an eclec­tic mix of dance and folk, with Faith­less, The Pro­claimers and Razorlight head­ing the bill.  There’s also Fero­cious Dog, Utah Saints, Heather Small, Ash­ley Singh, Tide Lines, James Lavelle,…

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Aug 19

Little Grandad at King’s Cross Summer Sounds 26

Lon­don band Lit­tle Grandad appeared at King’s Cross Sum­mer Sounds free fes­ti­val this year. It’s hard­ly sur­pris­ing that this tal­ent­ed group of musi­cians have risen so quick­ly through the ranks – gor­geous har­monies and heart­felt songs that lean towards Amer­i­cana are their stock in trade. It was only ear­li­er this year that I saw them supporting…

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Aug 13

Ezra Collective album launch DJ set, Liverpool

Jacaran­da Records presents an inti­mate DJ set with Ezra Col­lec­tive in cel­e­bra­tion of their new album ‘Here Because of Hope.’ Thurs­day 17th Sep­tem­ber 2026 This takes place at the Jacaran­da Baltic in Liv­er­pool, from 7:00pm til 9:00pm (Per­for­mance starts 8:00pm) This is a 18+ event. Under 18s must be accom­pa­nied by a respon­si­ble adult (1:1 ratio) Albums can be…

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Aug 10

A State of Trance: Drumsheds, London – 25 Years of ASOT

A State of Trance Lon­don lands at Drumsheds on Sat­ur­day 14th Novem­ber 2026 for the first-ever indoor ASOT fes­ti­val in the UK, cel­e­brat­ing 25 years of one of elec­tron­ic music’s most icon­ic glob­al brands. Head­lined by Armin van Buuren, this land­mark edi­tion brings the full scale of A State of Trance to one of London’s…

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Aug 8

God Save the Queens – new London festival

God Save The Queens is a new Lon­don fes­ti­val ded­i­cat­ed to the past, present and future of female punk. The event will fea­ture a spe­cial show at Elec­tric Brix­ton on Fri­day 16th Octo­ber, fea­tur­ing a super­group of she punk leg­ends, reimag­in­ing the Poly Styrene playlist and she punk anthems. The show is part of a…

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Towersey is 50
Aug 5

Found: the festival that feels like coming home

If you loved Tow­ersey fes­ti­val, you’ll want to find Found Back in 2012, a friend intro­duced me to Tow­ersey fes­ti­val. The event was a huge and essen­tial part of her fam­i­ly’s life; every year they would descend on the Tow­ersey vil­lage site with an army of rel­a­tives and friends in tow and set up camp. On…

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Jul 31

Single, video and upcoming album for Strawberry Guy

Straw­ber­ry Guy, aka Alex Stephens, announces his sec­ond stu­dio album, Give Me A Dream, out on Octo­ber 23rd. He’s also just released the sin­gle Love Me Like You Used To. Straw­ber­ry Guy’s new sin­gle, Love Me Like You Used To, is an unashamed­ly open and emo­tion­al plea for love; in the video it is rep­re­sent­ed through the com­plex­i­ties of a…

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Jul 30

Australian trio Sex Mask releases new EP “Raid”

Aussie band, Sex Mask are releas­ing their new, much antic­i­pat­ed EP Raid on 14th August, via Unpop­u­lar records. The trio have so far pro­ject­ed an adept shape-shift­ing approach to music-mak­ing, fol­low­ing the angu­lar, jumpy, Gang of Four by way of The Strokes How to Be Cool At Par­ties – and brood­ing, soupy Circe. Their 2025…

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Jul 28

New venue radial to open in Tottenham for arts, music and culture

When it comes to our grass­roots music venues, the news is usu­al­ly gloom cen­tral. So it gives me great plea­sure to report that a brand new venue is to open in Tot­ten­ham, north Lon­don, on 5th Sep­tem­ber. The new venue is called radi­al and is designed to serve the arts, music and cul­ture. And- acctually,…

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Jul 25

The Orb (Live) vs System 7 tickets

THE ORB & SYSTEM 7 REUNITE FOR A SERIES OF RARE EXCLUSIVE LIVE SHOWS! On Fri­day 2nd Octo­ber 2026 – Two leg­endary forces of elec­tron­ic psy­che­delia return to the stage togeth­er for a lim­it­ed run of immer­sive audio­vi­su­al events! After years apart on the live cir­cuit, pio­neer­ing elec­tron­ic vision­ar­ies The Orb and Sys­tem 7 are reuniting…

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Jul 23

Music Venue Properties acquire their tenth grassroots music venue

Nor­man Cook aka Fat­boy Slim has invest­ed in “The Nation­al Trust for Music Venues” and has called on artists and music fans to back the future of grass­roots music. He has bought The Pipeline in Brighton and this land­mark acqui­si­tion marks a major mile­stone for the Own Our Venues com­mu­ni­ty own­er­ship cam­paign. The acqui­si­tion places…

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