Mar 26

Ultimate summer festival guide 2026

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

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May 30

Review: Hue And Cry deliver their 16th album: Everybody

Scot­tish pop duo Hue And Cry release their 16th stu­dio album: Every­body on May 29. Broth­ers Greg and Pat Kane, who ini­tial­ly rose to fame in the 80s with Labour of Love (and their debut album Seduced and Aban­doned) are back with a set of songs that prove how they can shapeshift and evolve their sound. …

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May 27

Bearded Theory 2026 Sunday photo gallery: Lynks, Wildhearts, Garbage

It’s a tra­di­tion: The Bar-Stew­ard Sons of Val Doon­i­can must com­mence Sun­day’s pro­ceed­ings. This year not one, but two boats sailed out across the crowds. There was lots to get excit­ed about: GANS and Basht. on the Wood­land Stage for instance. Also Lynks, The Wild­hearts, Garbage plus many oth­ers, all mak­ing this one of the…

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May 13

Fat Dog – new single Go F*** Urself plus UK tour

Out now is Fat Dog’s new sin­gle Go F*** Urself, on Domi­no Records. The song is unveiled just in time for fes­ti­val sea­son, join­ing the rest of the Fat Dog canon of par­ty bangers. There’s a boun­cy 80s pop thread run­ning through it with propul­sive beats while vocal­ist Joe Love intones the som­bre vocals: “Some…

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May 11

Everywhere At Once multi-venue festival news

Fes­ti­vals tend to grab all the atten­tion over the sum­mer but our much-loved grass­roots venues need sup­port too! So this new ven­ture called Every­where At Once is the per­fect way to entice you back into some of our great venues for a gig. The umberel­la organ­i­sa­tions pre­sid­ing over it all is lead­ing char­i­ty Music Venue Trust…

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May 8

Beyond the Woods festival, Leeds

Let the spir­it of the woods guide your mind, body & soul through Leeds’ first open air for­est expe­ri­ence hid­den deep with­in ancient grounds at Hazle­wood Cas­tle in Tad­cast­er. The date is Sat­ur­day 30th May, 2026. Artists per­form­ing at the event are Mel­la Dee, Alisha, Archi Hamil­ton, Lock­lead, Saoirse, Job De Jong, Dun­geon Meat, and many…

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May 8

Jim Ghedi single ‘The Hungry Child’

Jim Ghedi’s new sin­gle called The Hun­gry Child has just been released on Basin Rock. A stark­ly bleak track, and more polit­i­cal than his pre­vi­ous work, Jim com­ments on the idea for The Hun­gry Child thus: “I want­ed to push the sound even more heav­ier, chaot­ic almost like cap­tur­ing the sound of destruc­tion, as things…

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